(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)
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