Exactly. And you need to takea fairly god peek, like into someone’s living room window, to be able to read that.

Track its location? That is a whole other story. Odometer readings though...?

Is an odometer reading public then? Or is that about peeking into a restricted private space?

I am the privacy type with patches on notebook cameras etc, but I don’t see the point in restricted access to odometer readings. It’s not a metric that can be used against you in any sensible way, unless you actually tamper with it.

Wheels tend to be overdone on a lot of cars. But blackening them out...what’s the rationale? Invisible wheels are 9/10 on the moron scale to gold/oversized/spinning wheels.

With a lot of these videos, I’m not sure if making these engines run one last time is the same as preparing them to run reliably many more times.

His face when he hears they just replace it because it is so “cheap”...hurtful.

A ‘58 Ford, a late Moskovich and a Peugeot 306 all in the same final picture - where else is that natural, or even possible? Interesting video, and ingenuity is the one solution to scarcity that really works. But I’d really wish these people were allowed to prosper at their own pace.

You’re right.

All the more reason to try and turn this thing around.

I’m not saying that you’re wrong, but these are natural processes. Just the microbic life and the food chain up from there will always be affected, ever so slightly. And the “something worse is happening somewhere, so why not do something bad here”-argument doesn’t really hold that much appeal to me.

I’m used to European junk yards. You could eat off the cobbled stones.

Alibaba is huge. I have no doubt whatsoever that with a bit more of trial and error they’ll pull off something very cool.

“Clean up after you make a mess” - very well. Yet one drop of oil spoils 600 litres of water. Can’t help but worry about this pristine nature even if they say they take care of it.

You know, once you get over the 1% concept, this car is pretty cool. It doesn’t give a flying f* about anything, right down to the colour scheme. What better illustration of conspicous wealth could you possibly come up with?

They could be much better than the three cylindre Trabant (24hp!) and Wartburg. See what else you could get and the Lada looks pretty good. Cars like the GAZ Volga 24 were not available on the open market. Waiting lists for the Trabant topped 18 (that’s eighteen) years. Western cars? Well, here’s the 1977 Genex…

The US is ready for a cheap brand like Dacia. Or Scion. Well, wait.

It was possible to cross the GDR for Westerners to travel to West Berlin by car. The GDR “Autobahn” was mostly concrete elements with tiny rubber sections in between. You can imagine that they did produce a thombing sound, very regular, like a train. GDR residents like me would drive their Trabants just below 100km/h…

The vertical wagon end is the most practical solution with a great surprise egg in aerodynamics. So, yes, this is how a wagon should look like, and Honda did well on that one.

I agree. Let there be no doubt that this is how you do a wagon roofline.