(NiceKicks.com)
Monday, June 6, 2016
There's Some Good Reasons For It
Why Do Europeans Remove the Badges From Their Luxury Cars?
And so, the result is that basically everyone in Europe de-badges their luxury vehicles. If you’re poor, you don’t want people to know you’re poor, and if you’re rich, you don’t want people to know you’re rich.
(Jalopnik.com)
What I have discovered is that there are two
reasons. At the bottom level, Europeans remove the badges because they
don’t want people to know that they went for some base-level crapbox
instead of a real powertrain. In this sense, Europeans are far more vain
than us Americans: they pull off the 316i badge on the desperate hope
that someone behind them in traffic believes they bought a 318i instead.
But it isn’t only the bottom-level people who do
it. S-Classes in Europe are de-badged. AMG cars. BMW M3s and M4s. When I
worked for Porsche and traveled to Germany, I had this conversation
with dozens of my colleagues many times, and they all said the same
thing, namely that you pull off the badges on low-end cars and on
high-end cars for the exact same reason: you don’t want people to know
what you got.
And so, the result is that basically everyone in Europe de-badges their luxury vehicles. If you’re poor, you don’t want people to know you’re poor, and if you’re rich, you don’t want people to know you’re rich.
(Jalopnik.com)
I'd Probably Pay The Entry Fee To Go To This
Tour LA's Most Exclusive Car Show
[T]he first “LA Summer Concours” event in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. Since only a few hundred folks were allowed to buy $250 event tickets, we’ll take you on our own little tour of the $50 million showroom.
If that doesn’t mean enough to you, the cars in attendance are described as “50 million dollars worth of the world’s rarest and expensive automobiles will be on display, ranging from classic Ferraris such as the 288 GTO, 275 GTS, F40, and F50, to brand new models like the F12 TDF and La Ferrari. An exceptional collection of Alfa Romeos like the 1921 G1 race car and Giulietta SV Alleggerita, Lotus Le Mans race cars, Porsche 906 and 918s, Red Bull Rally Cars, to the latest models and race cars from Lamborghini, AMG, Nissan, and McLaren.”
(Jalopnik.com)
[T]he first “LA Summer Concours” event in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. Since only a few hundred folks were allowed to buy $250 event tickets, we’ll take you on our own little tour of the $50 million showroom.
If that doesn’t mean enough to you, the cars in attendance are described as “50 million dollars worth of the world’s rarest and expensive automobiles will be on display, ranging from classic Ferraris such as the 288 GTO, 275 GTS, F40, and F50, to brand new models like the F12 TDF and La Ferrari. An exceptional collection of Alfa Romeos like the 1921 G1 race car and Giulietta SV Alleggerita, Lotus Le Mans race cars, Porsche 906 and 918s, Red Bull Rally Cars, to the latest models and race cars from Lamborghini, AMG, Nissan, and McLaren.”
(Jalopnik.com)
We All Should Be Hugely Scared
How Scared Should You Be of a Chinese Financial Meltdown?
A debt increase three times steeper than our own horrific debt bubble that brought the entire world to its knees. That seems... ominous. What does Goldman Sachs have to say about all this?
(Gawker.com)
A debt increase three times steeper than our own horrific debt bubble that brought the entire world to its knees. That seems... ominous. What does Goldman Sachs have to say about all this?
“Such a scale of deterioration [in China’s leverage] certainly increases our concerns about China’s underlying credit problems and sustainability risk,” the Goldman analysts conclude. “The possibility that there is such a large amount of shadow lending going on in the system that is not captured in official statistics also points to [a] regulatory gap, and underscores the lack of visibility on where potential financial stress points may lie and how a possible contagion may play out.”This means more or less “there is more financial risk than China will admit” and also “it can’t last.”
(Gawker.com)
This Might Be Worth The Drive
Eat This Now: Yakitori Happy Hour at Shin-Sen-Gumi Robata and Yakitori
In addition to the yakitori, Shin-Sen-Gumi Robata and Yakitori offers an extensive menu of cooked and raw dishes as well as dinner specials served tapas style. If you come on Mondays and Tuesdays from 6 p.m.-8:30 p.m., you can score nearly half the regular yakitori menu at a significant discount with a plethora of $1.50 skewers (normally $2 to $2.75). On Wednesdays and Thursdays, the premium skewers are all 30% off with pitchers of beer available for $10. Kanpai!
Shin-Sen-Gumi Robata and Yakitori, 18315 Brookhurst St., Ste., 1, Fountain Valley, (714) 962-8952. Open everyday from 6 p.m. - 11:15 p.m.
(OCWeekly.com)
In addition to the yakitori, Shin-Sen-Gumi Robata and Yakitori offers an extensive menu of cooked and raw dishes as well as dinner specials served tapas style. If you come on Mondays and Tuesdays from 6 p.m.-8:30 p.m., you can score nearly half the regular yakitori menu at a significant discount with a plethora of $1.50 skewers (normally $2 to $2.75). On Wednesdays and Thursdays, the premium skewers are all 30% off with pitchers of beer available for $10. Kanpai!
Shin-Sen-Gumi Robata and Yakitori, 18315 Brookhurst St., Ste., 1, Fountain Valley, (714) 962-8952. Open everyday from 6 p.m. - 11:15 p.m.
(OCWeekly.com)
I'd Give This Product A Try
Wype will come clean your car where it sits
Recently, I wrote about Wyper, the Tinder of car shopping. That prompted Andy Kim, co-founder of Wype, to contact me. His business is one letter off from Wyper, after all, so in the interest of disambiguation, here's the scoop on the car-detailing company that is more like Uber than Tinder in the app comparison game.
Wype is based in Southern California, where cars are shiny and water is scarce. Wype detailers arrive at your car armed with non-toxic, plant-based proprietary cleaning products that require no additional water — no hoses, no puddles. According to Kim, the car wash industry wastes 300 million gallons of water, or 38 gallons per car, each day. (Auto Laundry News estimates that car washes use between 35 and 120 gallons per vehicle, depending on wash type.)
No matter the demographic, there are three levels of Wype: the Quickie, which only cleans the exterior and doesn't require you to give the keys to the detailer; the Standard, which gets the interior and exterior clean; and the Swanky, which adds wax. When they clean the interior, they'll take out the trash, organize your stuff that isn't trash and leave you a mint. They also take before and after pictures.
Kim said in an email that no car has yet been too dirty for Wype to handle. "Our process safely and effectively cleans surfaces that haven't been washed for months," he wrote.
(AutoBlog.com)
Recently, I wrote about Wyper, the Tinder of car shopping. That prompted Andy Kim, co-founder of Wype, to contact me. His business is one letter off from Wyper, after all, so in the interest of disambiguation, here's the scoop on the car-detailing company that is more like Uber than Tinder in the app comparison game.
Wype is based in Southern California, where cars are shiny and water is scarce. Wype detailers arrive at your car armed with non-toxic, plant-based proprietary cleaning products that require no additional water — no hoses, no puddles. According to Kim, the car wash industry wastes 300 million gallons of water, or 38 gallons per car, each day. (Auto Laundry News estimates that car washes use between 35 and 120 gallons per vehicle, depending on wash type.)
No matter the demographic, there are three levels of Wype: the Quickie, which only cleans the exterior and doesn't require you to give the keys to the detailer; the Standard, which gets the interior and exterior clean; and the Swanky, which adds wax. When they clean the interior, they'll take out the trash, organize your stuff that isn't trash and leave you a mint. They also take before and after pictures.
Kim said in an email that no car has yet been too dirty for Wype to handle. "Our process safely and effectively cleans surfaces that haven't been washed for months," he wrote.
(AutoBlog.com)
Note: Your Car's ECU Is A Data Recorder
Tesla rejects driver's claim of unintended acceleration in Model X
Remember, Tesla vehicles track what happens.
Recently, a Tesla Model X owner who goes by Puzant posted to the Tesla Motors Forum that his 5-day-old Model X accelerated on its own and crashed into a building. The incident happened while the "car was being driven and slowly being parked" before it just accelerated into the wall. There were some minor injuries to passengers, as well as damage to the car and the building.
But the bigger story, as is so often the case, is what happened online after Puzant shared the story and pictures. Some in the Tesla Motors Forum were skeptical that things played out the way Puzant said it did. And today, Tesla issued the following statement to Electrek about the crash:
Remember, Tesla vehicles track what happens.
Recently, a Tesla Model X owner who goes by Puzant posted to the Tesla Motors Forum that his 5-day-old Model X accelerated on its own and crashed into a building. The incident happened while the "car was being driven and slowly being parked" before it just accelerated into the wall. There were some minor injuries to passengers, as well as damage to the car and the building.
But the bigger story, as is so often the case, is what happened online after Puzant shared the story and pictures. Some in the Tesla Motors Forum were skeptical that things played out the way Puzant said it did. And today, Tesla issued the following statement to Electrek about the crash:
We analyzed the vehicle logs which confirm that this Model X was operating correctly under manual control and was never in Autopilot or cruise control at the time of the incident or in the minutes before. Data shows that the vehicle was traveling at 6 mph when the accelerator pedal was abruptly increased to 100%. Consistent with the driver's actions, the vehicle applied torque and accelerated as instructed. Safety is the top priority at Tesla and we engineer and build our cars with this foremost in mind. We are pleased that the driver is ok and ask our customers to exercise safe behavior when using our vehicles.(AutoBlog.com)
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