Did You Know - VW GTI Plaid Seats Edition

Here's Where VW's Tartan GTI Seats Originate From 

The iconic 'Clark Plaid' seats found in modern and classic Golf GTIs alike can be traced back to a trained porcelain painter who'd been inspired by her travels through Britain

After running a Mk7.5 VW Golf GTI for the best part of two months, there’s one thing I’m absolutely sure of: I love the tartan seats. They’ve been a fixture on various hot Golfs starting with the Mk1 GTI, and have even made appearances on various cooking Polos. But where did the idea come from?

It can all be traced back to Gunhild Liljequist (below). A trained porcelain painter and the first woman to work for Volkswagen Design when she joined in 1964, Liljequist would later be tasked with designing various elements of the first Golf GTI’s interior.

She came up with the simple but brilliantly effective idea of having a golf ball-style gearknob (a concept that was mocked, initially), and the tartan seat pattern which would become known as ‘Clark Plaid’.

Speaking around the time of the Golf GTI’s 40th anniversary last year, Liljequist said:

“I took a lot of inspiration from my travels around Great Britain and I was always taken by high-quality fabrics with checked patterns. The remit was as follows: we are making a sporty Golf, which nobody knows about yet.
So I approached the task from a sporting angle. Black was sporty, but I also wanted colour and quality. As such, you could say that there is an element of British sportiness in the GTI.”

(CarThrottle.com)

Why They Say Quality Over Quantity

Success is continuously improving who you are, how you live, how you serve, and how you relate.

The more evolved you become, the more focused you must be on those few things which matter most. Yet, as Jim Rohn has said, “A lot of people don’t do well simply because they major in minor things.”

To be successful, you can’t continue being with low frequency people for long periods of time.

Your days must consistency be spent on high quality activities.

The more successful you become — which is balancing the few essential things (spiritual, relational, financial, physical) in your life and removing everything else — the less you can justify low quality.

(BroBible.com)

A Well Executed Platter

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Here's The Numbers To Prove The Point

ESPN Is Making A Goddamn FORTUNE Off People Who Don’t Even Want The Channel

Just how profitable is the pracitice of bundling? According to Streaming Observer, ESPN is making BILLIONS OF DOLLARS each year because of this practice:

A recent survey found that 53% of people don’t care whether or not their TV package includes live sports channels, like ESPN and ESPN2 which are included in nearly every basic pay TV package.
According to the most recent estimates, 87,349,000 people have ESPN and ESPN2 in their pay TV packages, and those channels make up $8.11 of a pay TV bill (ESPN is $7.21 per subscriber per month, while ESPN2 is charged at a rate of $0.90).
Given that 53% of pay TV subscribers don’t care if they have ESPN or other live sports channels, that means 46,294,970 of ESPN/ESPN2’s subscribers don’t really want the channels. At $8.11 per subscriber, that’s $375,452,207 people are shelling out every single month despite not wanting those channels. That’s $4.5 billion a year!

What kind of fucking world are we living in where a company like ESPN can make $4.5 billion each year off people who don’t even care or want the service? That’s 4.5 billion reasons that the current cable status quo is broken, and 4.5 billion reasons that cord cutting will eventually tear down the cable service provider establishment as we know it.

(BroBible.com)

Audi AG Has Lost Their Damn Minds!

Audi RS models could go rear-wheel drive

Audi could target BMW and Mercedes by ditching quattro all-wheel drive in favour of rear-wheel drive for its most focused sports cars

The boss of Audi Sport has hinted at the potential for future rear-wheel drive models designed to take on the most focused models from BMW M and Mercedes-AMG.

Since rebranding itself from Quattro GmbH to Audi Sport, CEO Stephan Winklemann has been looking at where the company could go in the future.

Speaking at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, Winklemann told Auto Express: “When looking at the name, we decided Quattro could be misleading. Quattro is the four-wheel-drive system and is one of the things that made Audi great – but in our opinion was not the right name for the company.

“I can imagine we can also have cars with rear-wheel drive or two-wheel drive in the future.”

While he wouldn’t expand on his comments, it’s a clear indication that Audi Sport is hatching plans to close the gap on BMW's M division and Mercedes-AMG by developing more involving RS models without Audi’s quattro all-wheel drive setup. It's likely quattro would still be offered on many models, while remaining a standard feature on the most powerful variants.

Winklemann added: “Quattro can be a company, but it can also be an option. We wanted this to be clarified. We looked for something that was immediately recognisable – something that could be more than just the name of a company.

“Our cars will remain distinguished, but never pimped. We’ll always offer high performance, but at the same time our cars must be comfortable – and give you a feeling that you are better than you expect.”

(AutoExpress.co.uk)

Yup

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