1st: Having owned a Jaguar XJ and accumulating years of experience with its electrics, I can’t wait to see an XJ that uses electrics not only to randomly lock, unlock, flash lights, toot the horn and absolutely not make the internal combustion engine start, but also to propel the car.

Taxpayers bought me a work trip to a very sunny place. The road quality was certainly nice enough, and there wasn’t any snow or ice anywhere, anytime (and if there had been, the place was self-supplied with large quantities of self-distributing sand), but the bit about every piece of junk or animal carcass by the side…

Ethanol is fine, but V10 is boring.

I looked at a Norwegian report analyzing statistics for driver gender and age vs rate of crashes causing injury or death (minor crashes causing no injury aren’t necessarily recorded), and there were some interesting findings:

No wonder we aren’t eager to migrate to other countries.

Small Cars Should Start Disappearing Even From Europe

Took my most recent Audi to the dealership expecting a $7000 bill, but was very positively surprised when it turned out to be “only” $2500, as the expensive-sounding noise wasn’t at all what I expected, and a decidedly expensive job could be struck from the list.

Too bad the “hard” tops back then was more like “eggshell tops”. That said, it’s entirely doable today to make genuine hard tops than can take a reasonably rough roll-over.

One of the larger suppliers of complete systems in my line of work is located in California, and I keep wondering what drugs the state puts in the drinking water supply. That company has seen market share steadily dropping ever since foreign companies started competing with them.

I remember when they started turning up here, there was a yellow/gold-ish 3-door that spent practically every night illegally parked on a gravel road nearby. Certainly more exciting exterior than pretty much any other car in the neighbourhood, both in shape and color. Too bad the interior, and all other aspects of the…

Text is in Danish, an approximate (but not literal) translation goes like this:

“The Dauphine’s transmission is equipped with a new, precise synchronization unit between 2nd and 3rd gear that prevents wrong shifts. The ratios between the different gears are well-spaced, so that you get the optimum performance from the…

Having spent some serious quality time in a real Rover (pre British Leyland/Leyland Motors takeover) while still a kid learning to drive, I do have a special spot in my heart for Rovers.

Reminds me of something that happened last year in my line of business.

Lexus to introduce a sedan that offers a battery and a usable trunk at the same time?

I briefly considered one, years ago, thinking the hideous exterior wouldn’t be my problem driving it, and they were ridiculously cheap compared to the sedans I was primarily looking for. In the end, I just couldn’t take the ugliness and paid more for a slower sedan.

Just set fire to parliament, blame it on the communists, install me as leader, and I’ll make sure anyone who builds these abominations are put on cattle wagons together with the anti-vaxxers, Q-believers and coconut water pushers. Side benefits include huge improvements to motorway construction and the looks of dress…

Parking front-in is an abomination and will be a capital offense when I become dictator.

I’ve never worried about the weather when charging, but the Leaf (as well as the e-tron, Zoe, I-Pace and others) having the charging port in the wrong spot doesn’t help when I go shopping for an EV.

We had it in the Rover P4 (built 1949-1964), it may have been a primarily British thing.

Some sort of industrial realtime system with a proven track record in aviation or defense.