That’s right. Kindness and compassion is what’s called for here.

Opel worth the purchase price for the logo alone. Prescient design choice.

Maximum Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

the engine accessibility rating on this is somewhere north of 278 EAP!! (Engine Accessibility Points)

Hmm. You expect the ‘nope, nope, nope’ moment to arrive, but it never really does. Also, who knew that the ocean was such an effective way to parallel park a Toyota Nissan.

...because I was inverted.

I’m making out with the term ‘flame front propagation speed’ this morning. Thank you.

Cheerio, mate!

This is great bad news for both attendees at and participants in the following:

It’s got “Eco” in the name, so I am “green”, right?

Yes or no? Or should we just build more factories here, no matter what?

yeah...that was an attempt at making the standard ‘all somethingsomething cars are beige’ joke. It did not really go well. Sorry ‘bout that.

There’s no city called VW or BMW but it’s not far off.

Long-form journalism is so yesterday, but luckily one need only work one’s way through the lede on this story. For further convenience, I am turning the writing into a picture;)

In Europe, and particularly Germany, VW is a bit more politically connected. The political impact of the economic impact of dumping thousands of local jobs has made this emissions impact a good bit less...um...impactful.

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Harlequin: Honda Accord Edition

That VIN does not stop running itself.

SHUT THEM ALL DOWN! [pulls big ass lever...]

Hmm. Maybe memory did not serve as well as it could have. During that particular trip I took 10 flights in 11 days (on something like 6 different carriers) for a 3-continent video shoot. That trip included my first time on an A380, so I was rather excited.