I was all excited that a Gulf Moccamaster is a thing. Unfortunately the 999€ price this is being sold at is a bit too rich for my blood compared to the normal 129€ retail price.

Oh, had no idea. Hopefully it all goes well for you guys and girls in Jalopnik especially.

Skoda is below VW, but it’s not a bargain bin category brand by any means. Skoda makes total sense market position wise. It’s really VW between Seat/Skoda and Audi that I often have hard time to rationalize here in Europe especially with their wide trim and car ranges, but by some miracle they have made it work sales…

I mean they must be doing something right as the world largest car manufacturer and +10 billion euro profit year after year. 

Was it a private company that bought the firm? I’ve been working in HQ’s of 3 different Northern European publicity traded companies and never saw anything like that. HR has such a tight clamp on hiring and I would honestly think if you were related to somebody in board or leadership team - you would have harder time…

Or how far Hyundai/Kia have gone. Though, I do also think E-tron looks amazing.

I’m not sure how that makes sense. Tesla isn’t known for their quality, but are producing car with a range and price point that is a competitive. 

I mean it did pretty well for Kia. Kia stole Peter Schreyer from VW Group who was heading Audi’s design department in 2006 - who then established 3 new design studios in Europe for Kia. He pretty much created the Kia we know now.

But the thing is that while Ghosn is some kind of demigod inside Renault Nissan alliance by first propping up the struggling Renault and then outright saving Nissan in the 90's from bankruptcy to what they are today (as well as sniffing out the electric cars before bottomless money makers like VW Group)- that wont…

Airbus Zephyr S pseudo satellite holds the current world record for constant flight they did couple of months ago.

I totally agree with all the points outside of domestic car industry. If you are a EU citizen you have access to the world largest manufacturer base and plethora of brands.

It’s not the first time - they have been doing these threats since the 50's when it came to then wealthy Colombian league and they have worked every time.

I doubt they can deny anybody from participating national team practices, but there’s not much use of keeping a player in those practices if he is banned by FIFA. Meaning there’s no international game of any meaning they can participate in. 

Most probably do. Supercell has created games like Clash of Clans and Clash Royale that seem to retain people for years. Why they are reeking money like no other developer by having profit of 400 million to 1 billion euro annually since 2013. Even more insane when they for a long time only had 60 employees till 2017.

Though, this list is also giving very different view to the world largest car manufacturing base residing in Europe. Brands that are present really only give their higher end in US and European conglomerates like VW Group are excluding +1 million car seller brands like Skoda totally from US. Let alone giants likes of…

Oh, that’s nothing. Sweden has its average mortgages set to 140 years and the government stepped in couple of years ago to limit that to 105 years.

Possibly no jobs for the industry? Norway has plenty of corporate services there tied to the oil industry, but example tech industry is very much a Finland and Sweden thing in the Nordics.

Daimler and BMW do work with each other when it fits them.

I don’t see how giving more freedom would give us more exciting races. Big budget teams have zero problems separating themselves 1 sec or more of the mid tier teams under the current rules.