Guns aren’t necessarily hard to get anywhere in Europe. It’s much like drivers licenses in Europe vs. US. In US you just have to fog a mirror to get either. In Europe you need to demonstrate some, though not a lot of, qualification to get them.

STs, WRXs, GTIs, 2-series M (!!), what the hell?

I can totally get luxury cruisers and whatnot, but this is ridicolous.

I had one of those V8-equipped T-birds and you’re just dead wrong about the auto being better. It was an infuriating lump that never seemed to know which gear it should be in. The “gear hunting” was ridiculous and made we sad I could not option the manual version.

Did you see where the University of Wisconsin cancelled a 100-year old racist rock last week?

Well, VW has the actual Hitler Beetle cabrio, but you don’t see it paraded around in Pebble Beach, do you?

oh SNAP. Whats the fucking difference, Raph? Oh I know, one car is a simple utilitarian tool for the masses, and one is an automotive work of art that I guess you think we should just ignore instead?

Yes, a car designed to Hitler’s personal specifications, and who’s original purposed was to finance the Nazi war machine.

the thing is that this is rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of how items like cars were made available in the nazi era. this was a country with a planned economy that was totally plugged into the party’s norms of patronage. if you found yourself with a 540K, it was because someone important owed it to you…

So the kids are cancelling 90 year old cars now? A fucking car?

So we’re just saying the quiet part out loud now, I guess. If you’re wealthy, or enjoy the things that wealthy people enjoy, you’re a fascist.

Edit: I may have misread your comment, I realize now that you are probably referring to the original creators of the car, not everyone at Pebble 2021. Apologies.

I agree. If this was Hitler’s personal Mercedes or something, I would see the backlash. Or if it was dressed up in Nazi livery.

1. I don’t think that’s true.

This car is problematic if (1) it is venerated because of its connection to the Nazi era, and (2) the people venerating it are doing so as a back-handed way to praise Nazi accomplishments. Is there evidence of this in the actions of the owners, the judges, or the Pebble Beach management? Or is the fact that the car…

This “article” is such a dumpster fire I don’t even know where to start, so I won’t even try. Just...wow.

Don’t you own a Nazi-designed Beetle?

Yeah, that has zero to do with the story.

Is that where you landed on your “jump to conclusions” mat?

I don’t think the “sleeping your way into” ______ thing is on par with sexual harassment, at least not on the part of the lower level person in that relationship. The framing is problematic. Really, if people in power use that power to get sex in exchange for advancement, then the powerful person is the harasser.

Does anyone want to sell a car to the largest demographic in the world, the middle class, or are we just going to build cars for instagram?  This is stupid.  Just build a good electric car.