I saw one of these parked in the Lotte Tower car park in Seoul. (Along with an Ursus, a Bentayga and various super/hypercars. It was cold and rainy - yes, they were all outside) It’s so so so so so so so ugly. There’s no class to it. It doesn’t even exude money. In the flesh it looks like a bad Chinese copy of itself.…

Last year, I was inches away from buying this MG B GT as a daily driver, but then common sense prevailed.

No. He should drink Fosters for the rest of his life. It’s ‘kin awful.

Do you eat beans with George Wendt?

Rather than failure... A somewhat disgruntled unlicensed taxi driver. I was fine.

And I’ve just remembered that the bike I was riding in 2000 was a “Pearson Cycles” aluminium frame special. Aaaah, that’s why the handlebar looked worn in the pic I didn’t put up, a head-on shot of the bars showed the paint had aged. I’d re-used the bars. Completely forgot about that bike.

Hmm, shouldn’t the downtube should be the same? Wasn’t the big thing about the frame its ovalised tubes? I know they got rid of the carbon stays in the final version.

Fellow (ex) Siena owner wooooo. Most comfortable bike I’ve ever owned. Why I got rid of mine I’ll never fathom. I GAVE away the frame to someone that helped me with something. I was talked into a Ridley Damocles - mistake.

I’m beginning to think that without a massive uptick in capacity/efficiency, the battery model is going to be a dead end, or, at least, require a significant change in how people see, and use private cars. Development of hydrogen fuel cells, and converting the existing network of service stations may be the longer…

Start at 09:41 if the time in the link has got Kinja’d

Kareishū

And bikes too... anyone that’s watched “Black Rain” will understand. Putting four-stroke noises on two-stroke bikes... aaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!

Star for IU

You get the star for “handegg”

Ooh. See Moist Van Lipwig’s post on the Curtiss-Wright 2500 GEM. Also, ignore my cross-pollination thing, I was getting v tired)

Now, that is interesting, and I’ve even got a faint memory of seeing it somehow, although that might be courtesy of some 50s/60s SF interpretation... hmm... that does show a link to the hovercraft. I partially retract!

I’m afraid I must argue that the VZ projects had no effect on Cockerell’s development of the hovercraft, or to their eventual adoption into military use... apart from, perhaps, to show how not to do it. (I really shouldn’t attempt to write coherent sentences whilst drinking Malbec.) Unless, are you saying there was…

The Skycar doesn’t have anything to do with the evolution of hovercraft, or come to that, anything airborne that uses ground effect - it’s more a helicopter than anything else. (Hovercraft are not ground-effect vehicles either)

There was a little McLaren F1 Certification tent at the Concours of Elegance today.

Last year, Concourse of Elegance Hampton Court, original Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car.