Probably my Bang & Olufsen Beogram 3404 record player. It's a truly beautiful piece of kit, both in aesthetics and engineering. Plus, the MMC20EN cartridge that it is rocking produces incredible sound with an absurdly low playing weight, so my records will last as long as they possibly can.
Bahahaha! My Dad had a Triumph 2.5PI when I was growing up. It didn't just have Lucas electrics, it also had a Lucas fuel injection system! It was a 1960s design, entirely mechanical, quirky and cantankerous, but it would go like stink when it was running right!
Precisely! My wife has a VW Cabrio that I like far more than I should. The roof is held together with gaffer tape after multiple slashing incidents. I've thought about redoing the roof, but the effort involved, plus the cost, always puts me off.
This really bothers me, too, having recently moved to the US. Admittedly, I drive a small, low car ('85 VW Scirocco), but especially at left turns, it really bothers me when I can't see oncoming traffic because some huge monster of a truck is stopped across from me.
The RDS system used in Europe is brilliant. It does a whole lot more than traffic announcements, too. You get station names showing on the display, automatic changeover to the closest transmitter of your desired station, and some radios let you search for stations by genre and content.
symbolics.com predates HTML and the Web by a significant margin. It was the first .com domain name, registered in 1985.
My understanding is that the import process for any vehicle newer than 25 years old is an absolute nightmare, especially for a model that was never sold in the US, and doesn't comply with DOT standards (DOT and ECE vehicle standards are mutually exclusive in some parts).
It's probably some lame reason like the insane complexity of modern headlamp lenses - I don't have much materials science knowledge behind me, but gut instinct says that polycarbonate would be easier (and probably cheaper) than glass, especially for complex curves.
A modern re-imagining of the SM would be fantastic. Of course, it would still have to have all the hydropneumatic wizardry that makes a Citroën a Citroën (as opposed to a fancy Peugeot). Maybe something based on the current C6...
My 1984 Rover SD1 had something like that, too. It would even do clever things like switch back to low beam if a high beam bulb went out. Of course, the owners manual also had instructions on how to bypass the bulb failure monitor if it malfunctioned. Which, being a Lucas part, it did. I suspect that mine was one of…
Not just new cars, either. On the Mk2 VW Scirocco, if air conditioning is fitted, the condenser and associated plumbing gets in the way of the inboard high-beam lamps. You have to remove the front grill, the radiator ducting, and then access the bulb through a small hole – one of those situations where you can either…
...Or that the manufacturers don't go back to using glass lenses, like they should!
Quite a few of the retrofits that I've seen have Xenon modules that go into a regular halogen base. The connectors are still different, but the bulb is designed to physically fit into a halogen housing. Bad news bears.
While I wholeheartedly agree with you about the importance of doing a Xenon installation right, I ought to point out that E-Code optics aren't automatically OK for Xenons. They certainly have superior glare control compared to DOT optics, and, IMO, should be legal in the US on the grounds of simply being better than…
Pretty much any car with a bimetallic-strip flasher unit will do that. A dead bulb will reduce the current draw, causing the on-cycle to be longer. A short-circuit, or extra load from a trailer's bulbs will cause them to flash faster.
Hmm, I didn't know about the franchisee bullying allegations until now – I've been out of the country for a year. The staff at my local branch were always really cool, and I'd previously seen them as a less-awful equivalent to Pizza Hut, Domino's et al. Not so much now.
I'm disappointed, and I apologise on behalf of New Zealand. Hell Pizza has courted controversy for years, and although there is certainly a 'bro' element to it, the majority of it is relatively harmless trolling of the religious right. They have also promoted safe sex and birth control (not sure if they still do, but…
Call me slightly biased, but if I had the cash, I'd come pretty close to buying it. I was brought up around old Jags and other British sports saloons, and I'd love to have one of my own, one day. Although the Mark 2 is, in my eyes, the quintessential Jaguar saloon, (closely followed by the XJ6), the S-type comes very…
I don't have that problem. I have one of Sony's televisions with Google TV built in. It takes so long to boot up that by the time it's showing a picture and responding to commands, the trailers are almost done.
Yay Darkplace! I've been spreading the word of that awesome show amongst my friends. I haven't come across anybody who actually knew about it, though. I presume that you also know of The IT Crowd and, the Mighty Boosh, then.
