car culture
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Let Me Remind You About the Honda Prelude’s ‘Pervert Lever’
It’s a feature that made it controversial in Japan.
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There Was Once An Actual Name For The Idea That Traveling At Over 32 KM/H Would Drive You Insane
I suspect that everyone reading this at one time or another has felt some kind of speed-related intoxication; a sort of mildly altered state of excitement and engagement because, for reasons that seem to go against everything you’d think evolution would have taught us, going fast is fun. But long before people actually were going…
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If You Have An Older Relative With Dementia Who Still Wants To Drive, This May Be A Kind Solution
As a human, or at least as a primate close enough to human, I have the same anxieties about ageing as anyone. As a gearhead, there’s the extra element of dread at knowing that, at some point, I will just be too damn old to drive in a safe way. And you know, not into…
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I’m Trying Not To Sound Old While Talking About #Grasscar
TikTok is a “social media” service that I have been vaguely aware of for some time now, though because life is short and I am busy I do not know much about it. I have since been forced into TikTok by #grasscar.