This doesn’t look like sedan.

I hope they don’t mess up the original Space Jam’s homepage. It has been up and untouched since ‘96. It’s the oldest surviving homepage that I remember visiting when it was still brand new.

There’s a weird separate panel in front of the rear window. The only explanation that I can think up is that the car is actually a hatchback instead of a sedan.

But I generally dislike these too. I don’t hate the button itself but they have been programmed to be annoying. I have two examples.

And there are two of these with both wearing identical wraps. It could be possible but why?

In yesterday I did put a Windows XP machine back to work because I couldn’t find a single Windows 7 or 10 machine that would have had a working parallel port. Several did have the port but something in the OS/motherboard drivers is blocking the access.

My colleague’s friend used to have a Mini (the original version) that came with mismatching rear brake cylinders from the factory. He was quite baffled when we was trying to install a repair kits for these. Color coding would have been helpful.

The first “vehicle” that I drove with a manual transmission was a Stiga lawnmower while being a summer trainee at Nokia Mobile Phones. It didn’t have an accelerator pedal and instead it had a lever in the seat post. It did have clutch and brake pedals though. The shift pattern was linear and I think it had 5 speeds…

The import tax for new cars is based on the CO2 emissions (following the WLTP test protocol) that will give a tax percentage using a table. 60 g/km or less will give a tax percentage of 4.3% (the lowest value in table) and 300 g/km or more will give 44.8% (the highest value in the table).

In my country (Finland) we have a quite heavy taxation system for imported vehicles. The taxes are based on the CO2 emissions. So a plug-in hybrid system can lessen the taxes substantially. The plug-in hybrid SUVs are currently selling quite well here.

I vaguely remember a related topic +10 years ago while I was working for the local vehicle administration. I think Japanese vehicle legislation used to have a requirement that the direction indicators cannot be LEDs with quick on/off control. They had to some transition phase. I’m not sure if they still have some…

I’m Finnish. Our language might be pretty obscure and difficult but it has one good thing related to this topic. We don’t have separate pronouns for he/she. We just have one neutral word “hän”.

I recommend Knipex pliers wrenches too. I own the second largest and the second smallest of them (5 sizes available). Both are with the nice ergonomic grips (see below). At work I also have the smallest size with the regular grips.

“Radio waves propagate in vacuum at the speed of light c, exactly 299,792,458 m/s. Propagation time to the Moon and back ranges from 2.4 to 2.7 seconds, with an average of 2.56 seconds (distance from Earth to the Moon is 384,400 km).”

I think that the blue version is fairly common here.

It’s weird that Ferrari didn’t use any fancier components to attach those intake plenums together. I don’t doubt that they couldn’t handle their task of keeping the mildly pressurized intake hoses attached but those $1 screw hose clamps just stick out from the rest.

I don’t hate the interior but that exterior design is ugly in way that I have problems finding suitable adjectives. I think the design is still well executed but it just conflict really badly with my views on good looking cars.

In 1986 my father was looking for a new car to replace the aging Volvo Amazon. I was 9 years old and didn’t understand much about cars. We went to check our various cars at the dealerships. I had soon found my favorite. The Lancer Wagon had the coolest taillights that I had ever seen.

I’m located in Finland. Facom isn’t very well available here but luckily many European sellers are shipping to here. Filling my Facom tool cart is a quite expensive hobby.

I think that one is also a torque multiplier. So you have hold the long lever while turning the input “socket” with a wrench.