Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Automotif DCXXII...
I was absolutely tickled to spot this very clean and straight Austin-Healey Sprite out and about. This would be a 1959-1961 model, and the color is Colorado Red.
This was from back when sports cars were very tiny. As an illustration of how tiny, the Sprite Mark II was a little bigger, and you can see how it's dwarfed by a Subaru Outback in this photo. (And an Outback itself is not a monstrously large automobile.)
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Monday, May 18, 2026
Tab Clearing...
- Juanma has a really neat, lavishly illustrated, in-depth look at a car show in the Netherlands.
- Forget the "Great Man Theory of History" and instead consider the "Mediocre Man Theory of History".
- Funky vehicles in the presidential motorcade in China. Anti-drone vehicles? Some sort of SIGINT thing?
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Sunday, May 17, 2026
"You Have 60 Days"
You'll note that the video was published on April 8th.
Like clockwork, comes this AutoZone memo...
Saturday, May 16, 2026
How very Teutonic.
"Klaus, what if we made something that resulted in the same outcome as an airbag, but it had a whole bunch of moving parts and also effectively totals the car when it goes off?"
Friday, May 15, 2026
Thursday, May 14, 2026
Juxtaposition
I've been waiting to get this picture for a while now. Amusingly, I think both the Mitsubishi Pajero Mini and the Chevy Silverado belong to the same people.
That's just straight up trolling the guy.
Speaking just ahead of Trump, Xi noted the global attention on the meeting, and said a major question for the two countries was whether they could avoid the “Thucydides Trap,” according to an official English translation of his remarks broadcast by CCTV.Trump was probably rolling his eyes and thinking "Only dummies stick their fingers in those little tubes in the first place."
(In case you, like the president, haven't read Allison: Link. Personally, I think the premise of the book is overly simplistic, but I'm just some rando on the interwebs.)
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