So long, and thanks for all the fish!

An acquaintance of mine is from Siberia originally. For her, 20°C is hot, and she only sneers at our German winters.

D*mn, but that Lancia Aurelia is pretty.

Any one of the myriad great ideas killed by GM’s penny-pinching. But I’ll single out the production-ready Opel Aero GT (with targa top):

This is my personal most beautiful car of all time (before the original Miura). Astonishing, since Lamborghini recently actually produced several of the ugliest cars ever.

Does the president have the foggiest idea

Also shows another of GM’s many, many problems: I wasn’t even aware GM sold the CT6 PHEV outside of China.

I find that especially funny in the case of the Miata, an oldschool roadster.

Optional extra, only $3999.99

Probably too subtle for a lot of potential voters.

The whole “war of the currents” thing was mostly marketing bullshit, though (and if anything, the war was Edison vs. Westinghouse). Nikola Tesla himself was a self-promoter, mainly. Strangely fitting …

“I’d hate to see what kind of cancer the full desktop view is saddles with if people aren’t using an Ad blocker.”

Nope, there was/is more than just the one design fault. The software, for example, erroneously applied the correction more than once (until maximum deflection), and MCAS was not disabled by pitch imput on the control colum (and/or the checklists weren’t updated accordingly).

“The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.” (Douglas Adams)

If a five-year old asks that particular question, it’s a matter for a psychiatrist all right, but for different reasons. Also, child protection and the police, probably.

1st Gear: “Software Flaws” is putting it mildly.

GM has a looong history of leading technology which they then try their best to hide or at the very least delay until the competition has caught up.

So let’s add another memorial:

The giant Opel logo at the front isn’t original, by the way, it was probably added when the car was “refurbished” in the 1960s, and has since been removed.

Originally designed by Erich Bitter, who’s also the creator of this beauty: