Or the funniest names so far. Of course, these names are all Japanese, since they have some sort of lock on too-cute names (OK, one’s an Italian design house). An old girlfriend of mine, Janet, had a track prepped 300 ZX Twin Turbo that she raced. Big, powerful handful of a car. As most of [...]
Race tracks should be this smooth – the Ford Fiesta in action – stay out of the left-hand lane, you moron! – “Sweet Jesus, was that a ’56?” The bulk of the time I spent in France was out on the Atlantic Coast, in a little seaside fishing village/resort town. The next closest big town [...]
This is actually rather pathetic. Apparently, some middle class dude with a fair amount of money and absolutely NO taste got jealous of his upper class neighbor’s Rolls, and decided that his Toyota Camry (you read that right, Toyota Camry) could be just as pimp. Uhhh…no. No, no, no. Plating a Camry in 24K gold [...]
What I Did On My Summer Vacation 2008 Part Sept – Minivans of France No, really, minivans … that size thing again … Don’t the French have large families? … sure seem cleaner than ours … In many ways, minivans are the quintessential American vehicle, and, if you and I were being forthright and practical [...]
What I Did On My Summer Vacation 2008 Part Six – The Smart Car In The Wild The perfect car for the modern urban driving environment … that counts as the trunk, huh? … This still counts as a Mercedes? … Two Smarts in one space … any color you want, as long as it’s [...]
Your Average French Car …. Comparing the size of your car to everyday objects … special editions – Picasso and xBox? … that design makes sense from the inside … half as thin as Mercedes sheet metal … Your average French car is, as you would expect, small, weird, ostensibly underpowered, demonstrably over-designed , space [...]
Scooters In Paris … Vespas are a rare site … Maxis. high speed, high HP … that sounds like more than a 250cc … Apart from bad weather and the whole crush-space thing, they make a whole lot of sense … As you would imagine, scooters are a widely used for of transportation in France. [...]
The power and the glory that is the TGV … especially when it utterly fails. Chicago to NYC in 6 hours For $125 … Choke the Mister … Even at this speed, Avignon still give me the willies … “They don’t know what the problem is†…