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I’m Pretty Sure This Is the Only Car Ever With a Penis on Its Hood Ornament
Hood ornaments are interesting, if kind of archaic things. Normally, they depict the logos and branding (however weird) of a given carmaker, though they occasionally make the leap to actual sculpture, like the stylised bird on an old Voisin or Rolls-Royce’s famous Spirit of Ecstasy. Generally, human penises are not depicted on hood ornaments, at…
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Here’s What Those Brushes On Escalator Sides Are For And Why I Don’t Think They Work
I understand that escalators aren’t technically vehicles. I think elevators are, at least as much as a cable car or a funicular is, but escalators are more like motorised architectural elements. Still, we use them for diagonal transport quite often, and as I have been in a bunch of airports recently, I’ve spent a lot…
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Tesla Appears To Be Selling New Cars With Batteries From 2017
Determining what year a car is can actually prove to be a trickier question than you’d think. The year the car was actually manufactured is a huge part of it, of course, but what about a car made from unused old stock? Or there’s the case of VW’s mascot Beetles, named Max, all of which…
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BMW’s Concept XM Will Be The First Electrified And Most Powerful M Car Ever
At the Art Basel art fair in Miami, Florida (not Basel, Switzerland; the show is international, so, you know, keep up) BMW showed the world their new concept car, which is notable for a lot of reasons: it’s BMW’s first M car not to be based on a current production model since the M1 they…