I needed sheets of drywall and foam insulation. $30 got me a Menards van for two hours. Easier than looking for someone who drives a truck every day to help me out once every few years.

Me neither. My convertible has a tow hook though, so I can transport mulch and the like whenever I want without getting the car dirty. Borrowing/renting a trailer is easy and super cheap. I also know where I can rent a more practical van for peanuts.

The new Citroën Ami’s left and right doors are the same part for cost-cutting reasons.

Dagmar

Have you had the “fun” of replacing the clutch yet? How about the oil cooler blowing it’s seals? Motor mounts? Head gasket? The $500 oil pressure relief valve? The almost unobtanium couple of coolant hoses? The rest of the hoses are merely expensive for good ones. And on, and on, and on. The engine bay is the…

I had an ‘87 924S - same engine in the older version of the shell. It was plenty fun to drive, though not fast by modern standards. Brilliant handling with perfect weight distribution.

Last summer I was riding my road bike to work 1 or 2 days a week. It was 15 miles each way and I was knocking it out in 45 minutes. I really enjoyed that, but after losing a close friend on his bike a few months ago, I’ve really had to re-evaluate when and where I ride.  

Or how many ebike trainer miles it takes to get one mile of tesla charge.

But can you play Cuphead on it?

totally. This doesn’t make Tesla look good, it makes bicycles look good. But you can’t be green without any effort on a bicycle.

And that’s a leisurely pace!  

Yeah that’s the main takeway. Of course you can charge a battery with a generator, be it powered by a diesel engine, a cyclist or a hamster in a wheel. But 2 km with the energy sufficient to move 9 people on 5km that’s 45kms (I bet even more) It just shows how ineficient the car is as a means of transportation.

Practika LLC, first 35mm slr with an electrically powered diaphragm. East German they may have been. They were also pretty advanced technically. Responsible for quite a few firsts in the SLR domain.

I wonder where the Biros are made? If they’re just importing these from China then they’re marking them up very heavily since the Chinese price seems to be around $4000 US and that’s at retail. 

That looks like it would become uncomfortably hot pretty quickly with all the windows.

Yeah at 15k just buy a yaris - completely functional as a car you can actually take on the freeway, and still pretty easy to park (although you need actual car parking, which I assume is the issue). 

It kinda looks like what became the Ford EXP/Mercury LN7, which were essentially an Escort/Lynx without a back seat.

Both of these bring to mind Gordon Murray’s iStream concept.

That is used 7 series money!!! I could buy 2 good cars with that money, or a car and bike, and have money left for a golfkart :))

The orange car looks like a serious urban design. With some development , and modular components (small truck bed etc,) it could be very interesting.  There were also some cool scooters (24:11)  I want.....