As a Nordic I have to admit my ignorance here. I’ve either forgot or never known that Iceland is not a member of European Union. They don’t tend to stick out on EU related stats and maps like Switzerland and Norway with them being part of Schengen and European Economic area.

You can’t be serious? You are doing some extreme mental gymnastics here if you are making drunken flight attendant justified thing.

Tell me about it. There is some extreme mental gymnastics going on. Apparently the color of her skin seem to make criticisms impossible, when it should not matter at all.   

How in earth is this getting up votes? It’s a god damn flight attended drunk on flight. That’s a big deal.

Outside of couple of actual very profitable car manufacturer they are all struggling with costs as it is. And the car manufacturers with “unlimited” amounts of money want there to be some kind of link to real world to make it worthwhile for them.

I actually like the interior and don’t really see the problem with the display. As far as the outside goes you will see this weird thing only in China. I don’t doubt a second Europe wont keep buying the A-class hatchback bucket loads with 3 factories churning them out as fast as they can.

And who an earth can anybody get to call a feature like that beta? Imagine Daimler or GM doing something similar? It would never fly.

Masses don’t care. Tesla did especially initially over hype the whole system way too much for what it was as well as name it it autopilot.

I guess that was a rhetorical question? Time is the reason why they have so many people. There are plenty of videos over at youtube that show slow motion footage of the modern era F1 pit stops and what everybody is doing.

Yep. I’ve had that PIN from 2004 onwards even with switching from Visa to Mastercard (same bank) and have it on two cards (debit/credit combo and separate debit card). That number is deep in my memory.

I would say at least in the Nordics all lanes are marked. Though, there are many cases when cobblestone streets are not marked outside of pedestrian crossing. Same is the case example in Helsinki and Stockholm. You can find those in the old centers of European cities and you are not moving above 20km/h there in any…

I sort of agree, but somebody who clearly doesn’t act a role and isn’t about dismissing press and then rocking it in French riviera with golden rolex - he clearly doesn’t care for the whole wider “F1 circus” and look at me aspect. That makes him much more lovable. F1 is now quite a bit better with it’s drivers…

Raikkonen, or Räikkönen with umlauts and all.

Please elaborate. Sure, get them before they destroy your industry. But I don’t think you are still getting the point. If you are still talking about China - please look what I wrote. Chinese steel already has 240% to 550% tariffs by US because of price dumping since 2016. EU has imposed 70% tariffs on Chinese steel…

Sure. But why isn’t this directed to China then? At the moment this will hurt the free market EU steel makers that have gone through heavy cuts and merged to the likes of world largest steel maker ArcelorMittal.

Look how this similar idea served US back in 2002. Chinese overcapacity and price dumping is already heavily limited by EU and US. Why especially EU steel makers have been rocketing up past year.

Didn’t we have this exact same thing already in 2002? The decision was overturned under a year after EU steel makers complained to WTO that deemed the tariffs illegal and the calculations after the fact showed the tariffs only hurt US economy.

I understand you are talking about VW brand alone, but with VAG you can’t separate the platform game. If any car conglomerate has made it work it’s VAG.

Daimler ownership is a rather open game compared to the 2 other big German’s. Pretty much all the shares are on public float and there is no family or German state as a anchor ownership.

I would think so. Police cars are pretty much the only commercial vehicle I’ve not seen here in the Nordics from Mercedes, but they dominate the taxi market (45% share), ambulances are pretty much nothing than Mercedes, fire trucks, garbage trucks and whatnot.