The taillights on Ford Cougar/Mercury Cougar (1998–2002) had domes sticking out. The reason was to meet the ECE automotive lighting regulations, requiring that the rear turn signal indicators and brake/night illumination lights have minimium of 46° visibility angle to the side.

I can’t imagine the poor pedestrian when hit by Cizeta-Moroder with headlamps up. That must take the surgeons hours if not days to piece the leg bones back together...

That happens once in a while in Germany as to get rid of irritating advertisement trailers or delivery trucks that park on the streets for weeks and weeks at end.

As I have said many times in the past, Americans should ditch FMVSS and adopt the international standards (WP29). This will free up the market for many more choices and brands. Australia did that by revising its formerly-difficult-to-comply Australian Design Rules. Then, Australians enjoy one of the most widely…

I was thinking the same about C3 Corvette, too.

Jason,

Australia has moved toward the UN-ECE WP29, the “de facto” international safety regulations, amending its Australian Design Rules in the 1990s while the United States refuses to do so. That opened up the market for many imported vehicles. It’s true for Japan as well. Canada wanted to adopt the WP29 regulations in…

That is normal for taking off from high altitude airport, namely Denver, due to thinner and drier air. I lived there before and loved the quicker acceleration at full power during the take-off for wide-body planes.

Just highlight the link then right-click to open the link in new tab.

That wasn’t the first time United Airlines experienced the same uncontained engine failure with 777. United Airlines Flight 1175 had the identical failure in 2018, flying from San Francisco to Honolulu. The engine hara-kiri-ed itself forty minutes before landing in Honolulu.

I flew from Santiago de Chile to Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and back on Latam Boeing 787 in 2016. I learnt something interesting about this route. It’s one of the most remote routes in the world with nearest available airport for diversion being 2,300 miles or so away, namely in Chile. The other diversion airport with…

That’s laughable reason! CT6 is smaller than Escalade, and the Blackwing engine could theoretically fit in Escalade with lot of room to spare.

Interesting to see David holding the face shield with gloved hand and the welding torch with bare hand. Shouldn’t the hand holding torch have glove on?

1.) this site is nearly unusable at times on mobile. Constant crashing.

Steyr Daimler Puch (now Magna Steyr) is a full-fledge manufacturer in Graz, Austria, that specialises in low-volume manufacturing and assembly under contract for many car marques. Chrysler contracted Magna Steyr to build several of its models, including most of Jeep models, 300C, and others in the 1990s and 2000s…

“...amber marker lights...”

Gee, one of my favourite towns, Erlangen, isn’t well-known outside Germany, but it’s mentioned in your article! Awesome!

While you’re in Germany, be sure to stop by Sinsheim Technik Museum and its satellite location in Spryer for the bragging right of boarding both Concorde and Tu-144 planes (yes, you can do that). Only place in the world to have both in same place.

Yeah, I hired BMW M760iL xDrive for a day as well as G30 M550d xDrive Touring (the one with four turbochargers). Highly recommended!

And Audi RS6 Avant...