PK Trucks are selling a couple. They look cool.

Sleipnir is a perfect name for that beast!

Berliet: Always relevant.

Good lord, that’s magnificent!

Love that safari roof!

Now is your perfect opportunity!

1. Boring car-related wrenching: I’m fixing up my old Volvo so I can sell it so I can justify buying something newer and cooler.

Removing the B pillar brings one big engineering challenge (rigidity) and a hundred little ones when you have to make two panes of glass mate consistently, keep out noise and water, &c. Now imagine doing it with removable glazed roof panels. To get everything perfect would be an enormous project, for only a handful of…

Don’t forget the Jones Act!

“Simplify and add lightness”.

I like the attempt to portray an aspirational boater image, even though they’re far inland. This is from the era when British gameshows routinely gave away speedboats as prizes. Random inland suburbs were infested with unused, unusable boats.

I could never trust any vendor who thinks the handbrake is a good place to attach a cupholder (or is it a mobile phone holder?)

Can we do this with other famous movie cars?

After further research, I think Monaco is also a candidate for VW’s cunning yellow-headlight scheme.

Could be NVH as well as thermal? Putting the engine a few cm underneath a passenger’s backside seems great from a space perspective, but in an era when customers started wanting a smooth quiet ride and earlier rattly rear-engined econoboxes were stigmatised, other engineering challenges appear.

And, are those orange bulbs in the headlights? That I don’t really get.

There are lots of ways that airports can allocate capacity. Auctioning slots & gate access is one of the best ways. On the other hand, “Use it or lose it” rules favour big incumbents who’ve been running a steady service for years - they help shut out new competitors - so big old airlines like Delta have long favoured r…

There’s almost a realism in that. So many mainstream films rely on intense drama, they don’t seem to correspond to real life any more. “This will change your whole life!” is a staple of scripts, but in reality you’ll only ever hear it as a hyperbolic description of cheesecake.

A Harley Davidson is basically a “look at me!” device for converting money into noise. This one is perfect.