Next up on UK Builders’ News, new sprinkler systems in car parks, an idea whose time has come?
Perhaps. That’s also on my list, but this example was the first on my shortlist to pop up in a quick online search. Along with the Panda and AX on the list are the Citroen BX 4x4 (which are rare as hen’s teeth), and the Peugeot 205 4x4.
I can see that. I drove a Peugeot 106 of a similar vintage at that speed, in a downpour, between Orleans and Paris in 1994. I still sometimes wonder how I lived through that.
I do too. On 7 just past the split in Lyons.
Doesn’t snow stick to the texture with the stone effect paint?
You’re right, but it’s also less unusual, more money, and has less usable space. So it fails in meeting the original brief.
I don’t know where you got the idea I said the numbers were anywhere close to similar. I simply said preferences were mostly binary. Clearly the angular three box A-body was the big winner. I personally hated them but recognize my preference was a minority one.
And this really gets us to the important thing. Not all winter tires, all-season tires, or all summer tires are the same.
Visually, the A-body cars looked like American cars while the X-body cars looked vaguely European. Most people liked one or the other, but never both.
The sad thing is that later examples had decent build quality and the design gremlins had been worked out. But by then, public opinion had been set against them.
I’ll say, I’ve never been on a 747-8. I’ve logged miles on 747-100, 747-200, 747-300, 747-400, and 747SP aircraft from Air France, Qantas, Iberia, Korean, TWA, United, Virgin, BA, SAS, Air Canada, Air New Zealand, and South African, but never the new one.
To be fair, the windows ar rows 1 & 2 are pretty close to coward facing, thanks to the curvature of the airframe.