Sounds like Blindsight, by Peter Watts. At least as terrifying as this.

I had the same issue with my 1993 E36. The light was there, but it was terribly dim and patchy. I replaced them with new incandescent bulbs and found the old ones to be completely blackened but still working. The improvement was huge, even with the same type of old bulbs - I am actually mildly proud of having just a…

It’s GattAca. There’s no I in DNA (although there is DNA in me).

...you generate electricity.

The Festiva is such a cool little econobox, I can’t believe I was barely aware of its existence! It’s so generic looking it could be branded almost any way (Toyota, Nissan, Fiat - you name it), but it really sells the boxy 80s image. Nice and simple as it should.

Looks a bit like a broken hubcap.

Didn’t think much about these cars back when, but I come now to realize that this was possibly the cleanest, purest, most essentialised of the angular designs of the 80s. This should be the zero point on a scale measuring car design artifice: virtually everything else scores higher.

That is a beautiful interior. Just saying.

Yeah, french cars are (still) weird, even for Yurp standards. I drive a ‘08 Renault Megane Grand Scenic II (a mouthful) which, while not being a super weird car in itself, still carries the weird gene in the details. Centrally-mounted electronic disco dash - check. Huge wallet-sized access card to be slotted into a…

Volvo-tastic... but not in a bad way.

Had this on my 2006 Opel Astra hatch, which was far from being a “premium” car.