And left them sitting on their tires.
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I hear ya 100%.
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Based upon the vintage, I would guess you have found Jimmy Hoffaās parking space. If you know what I mean. Donāt try to open the trunk.
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An American car in Germany. (no music. no singing. no dancing)
I wish there was more hereā¦ but it actually just may be all there is to it:
(BTW: Ultra-polluting 1970ās American cars are considered to be historical (at least in Germany), so emissions tests for such vehicles are more lenient.) Use the hyperlink above.
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Just want to note that car is approximately 18 feet long and 7 feet wide (approx. 5.5m long and 2m wide in non-Freedom Units). Itās amazing to me that it can actually fit on most European streets.
It also has an unladen weight of ~4900 lbs (~2200kg).
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Not too many 1970s American cars I would recommend to Europeans. In factā¦ none.
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Evocative of French thrillers with garish American road-boats driven by fugitive Vichy collaborators who reinvent themselves as ruthless crime lordsā¦
ā¦ I imagine.
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A Caddy limo, of all creatures, starts off our bizarre trip in Luis BuƱuelās Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie {The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie}. I always thought that alone was surreal AF.
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Yeah. Modern ginormobiles get special import licenses here like they give to things like fire engines and the like. Special purpose vehicles. Itās so that rescue vehicles are still available even if they donāt make them for Europe. Which leads to the local clamper having American trucks with spiked wheels up at arm height to me cycling around townā¦
In the past the US had many European brands that they used such as Opel which was GM but is now a bit more mixed. Or Saab, which they ran into the ground.
So now they are left with cars that arenāt really designed for the local market. Apart from local arseholes who really want to show that fact off publicly.
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That looks familiar.
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Talk about a boxy design language. The designers must have lost sleep trying to figure out how to get the rim covers in on the act.
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Daliās ride. Real, growing grass. No joke:
Then thereās his Rainy Day Taxiā¦ (a 1938 Cadillac Series 62 convertible) but it was not meant to be driven.
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Okay, Fine, I Give Up. I Canāt Find A Car Tie-In To The CEO And HR Person Getting Caught Cheating On The Jumbotron At That Coldplay Concert
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I dunnoā¦ maybe itās time to go back to using a more balanced combination of mechanical and computing in carsā¦
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Apparently Volvo uses brake by wire in these cars, so thereās no physical connection between the brake pedal and the actual brakes. When drivers are in āBā mode (regenerative mode) and doing āone pedal drivingā there is a software bug that can cause the brakes to not engage properly. The workaround for now is to use regular āDā drive mode, but itās pretty wild that a bug like this got through testing.
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