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Let the hackle zipper cut in the drailing wheel

Originally uploaded by johnkoetsier.

You can’t make stuff this good up:
“Let the hackle zipper cut in the drailing wheel, then draught at full tilt to upgrade, let the drailing wheel tunning hight speed, at this time set the […]

Yes, this is to-die-for cool.

Yum!
(Saw it first at boingboing.)

Saw this on Boingboing just a few minutes ago: a photo tour of Volkswagen’s Phaeton factory in Dresden, Germany.

Unbelievable. This is no factory, it’s a work of engineering and aesthetic art. I’d work in it any day.
Glass, steel, laminated wood flooring: it’s a modernist dream factory made real.
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Well, I’ve said it before, and so have others, but the data is starting to come in that the car-buying public is starting to drastically change its habits.
3 cheers for high gas prices!
Naturally, most of the North American (I mean, American) car manufacturers are caught totally flat-footed … with way too many guzzling gas suckers […]

Apparently, Bill Gates is working on building cars that can’t crash.
Please stick to computers, Bill. Please.
Or, if you just can’t, at least start with computers.

Nothing like a controversial title to start off an article about vehicles, huh?
It’s a silly title, but, according to an article from the New Yorker, it’s strangely accurate.

I’ve been renting a 2005 Cavalier for the past 4-5 days, and I am not impressed. In fact, I am seriously unimpressed.
Why? Read on …

Can someone please tell me what’s up with the Austin Mini?
I love the exterior of the Mini with it’s vaguely retro multi-color styling. I hate the interior of the Mini with it’s Jetson’s bulbous plastic futuristic styling.