Volvo’s car division is the topic this time

Early Ladas were actually known for their unusually thick steel. It was heavier than the Fiat 124 it was based on.

Its like Champagne or Roquefort cheese. It’s only capitalized if it’s from Colombia.

got it! i have been well schooled in my assumptions that corn was what was being used in Brazil and not sugarcane. I stand very much corrected.

Exactly. They never had a chance. 

That’s because our taxes are included in the prices quoted, unlike in North America (which is something I find utterly bizarre). 

That I expected - it would be a way to get around the problem of symmetrical port timing in conventional piston ported two strokes. Pre-war DKW racing motorcycles for example used a bewildering array of arrangements to accomplish this and were very successful in competition.

Maybe I missed something, but I would expect an article about a backlit grill to show the grill being backlit at least once.

Diesel does not wish it had way less range and worse refueling choices.  

“I also suspect those flexible connecting rods would fatigue, crack and break after a relatively short service life”

Thats an amazing parenthetical

Over Half of Cars Sold in Norway Are Electric

Weird though thay my be, they are apparently indestructible. Any classic car meet (basically a bunch of folk trying to justify there dreadful lack of fiscal responsibility to others whose predilections are alarming similar) in the UK will have at least one Trojan in attendance. At the risk of self parody, I had one…

GM waved the white flag in Europe in 2017 and is currently easily outsold by Tesla. Chrysler never really participated and Fiat is throwing all their eggs in the North American basket, so they are nothing but a shadow of their former self. With evaporating sales as a result.

So instead of buying an iPhone made in China but engineered in the US, you are buying an Android phone made in China but engineered in the US?  And you think that makes you more virtuous somehow?

I’m sure if you ask they’d develop a version for Americans; designed to get bogged down in the first patch of sand it tries to drive across, and stay there forever.

That bodes ill for my on-board boiled cabbage and roasted chestnut concession. 

Might’ve found one that’s even slower:

Fun fact: the Porsche Diesel volkschlepper could be paired with a trailer whose axle was driven by the tractor's PTO, yielding an articulated vehicle with a 4x6 drive. Slow but relentless.

Beat me to it.  here’s yer star.