First generation A7

Current A6

Second generation (current) A7:

I see Jalopnik didn’t like my thoroughly illustrated reply... Will try again with text only, and then dump the illustrations separately after that:

A7.5? A7.99? A7+1? A proper A8 would be aluminium.

Now we’re getting somewhere! As long as they don’t do something really stupid about the interior, like removing physical buttons for the most important functions, this just might be an EV I’ll run as an only car.

I wonder how difficult it would be to climb a plain old rope ladder while wearing a space suit and the support backpack, in lunar gravity? Could it be realistic that an astronaut remaining up at the door could toss down a rope and simply pull up the astronaut standing on the ground?

I spent a couple of years of my life making long night trips on back roads twice a week, frequently in the rain, and I really did feel safer in the Saab than in the newer car with superior headlights that replaced it. No point in having powerful headlights when you get half of it thrown back at you because of rain and…

Yes, pretty sure the idea of dropping the needles is to prevent people from straining to look at them in the darkness and taking their eyes off the road for too long. If you really want to see them you have to turn night panel off.

Saab were too good for this world:
- Where practically all other brands insisted on putting the ignition switch in the same wrong place, they put it somewhere okay (though obsolete today with keyless systems and start buttons)
- A button that has gotten just more and more in demand for every year since Saab’s passing,…

Another entrant in the “agricultural EV” category.

Mine was a 2004, but I’m in Europe, so not measured according to EPA standards.

Around town, my Saab 9-5 was every bit as thirsty as the V6 it replaced, but for economy-conscious highway cruising the MPG was incredible, in fact slightly better than the official numbers.

Rover in the UK created their post-war models Land Rover and P4 with aluminium bodies, for several closely related reasons:
- Steel was in extreme demand for post-war rebuilding, so using steel for panels that weren’t load-bearing and could be made with “inferior” materials like aluminium would be a waste
- Aluminium…

Plenty of traffic safety blame to pin on governments too.

Back in the day all 24" 16:10 IPS computer screens had their panel from the same factory in Korea, so it was just a question of packaging and software. The situation for the 13.3" used in the first MacBook Air and Lenovo X300 was similar.

Not sure I want to contribute if it ends up in a slideshow...

The 2.7 204 was hardly a top engine when there was also a 3.0 211 to be had.

A relative became a controller, but dropped out after a couple of years because of how the union operated, walking around with the shift schedules and telling controllers which shifts to call in sick for, and threatening my relative with blocking his transfer to an airport closer to home if he didn’t comply.

Her TDI died, and it made no sense to repair it for her to continue to abuse it. It was sold on to someone who drives more miles in a day than she does in a month, and has mechanics in the family who’ll keep it alive for beers and pizza.