I always wonder how many lanes it takes to just ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and give up completely

(Yeah, the place is a 20min scoot from NYC)

#climate #nyc #cars #cycling

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Bike-scooting to soccer practice

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New Jersey

Looking through my old 20th century #motoring books (some from mid 1930s), it became apparent that although #car ownership was still a thing for the fairly rich then, there was already a lot of innovation and co-operation *across Europe* and from the USA.

That stalled around 1939-1945 (for obvious reasons!) - there was a big gap until the late 1950s before the industry started recovering - folk still drove #cars, but kept older ones going for many years.

There's a big lesson here from history (especially what is likely to happen to the rising adoption of EVs should #WW3 escalate and supplies of materials needed to make batteries and their components are impacted (due to destruction of factories and/or resources being diverted towards #military requirements)

#MetPol seized 72 luxury #cars and made multiple #arrests for road #traffic #offences as part of a crackdown on anti-social #driving in the centre of #London (they seem to do this every year, to some extent a PR exercise especially as they can brag about "getting tough on foreigners" (as many of the drivers of these cars seem to be from outside the UK)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp948xjkpkdo

A video of these cars: https://youtu.be/kByuCZUZX5o

Abandoned cars (House with the rusty cars) Netherlands April 2021

#urbex #photography #YouTube #lostplace #netherlands #cars #abandoned

Taken from "90s #rave scene" group on FB - and this is why, as much as I had fun then, I don't want to go back to those days *that* much - too many folk preyed on one another, robbing #car stereos, alloy wheels (and sometimes whole entire vehicles!) to fund their own partying (on the same group some *middle aged man* is unrepentantly admitting to having committed such thefts!).

Also outside of London and similar cities there was a lot of #CarDependency and #DUI was rampant - the only reason the casualty count wasn't noticed is the roads in 1990s were less safe (even with fewer #cars around) so the consequences of drug driving were masked by a heavy level of "normal" #collisions (and less #forensic investigation into the cause of #crashes)

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Cartoon of Grandpa Simpson in early 1990s era British rave scene fashions (with a purple OM LSD tab on the dashboard!) with caption "So I had to remove my car stereo so it wouldn't get stolen, which was the style at the time" (he is holding up a removable front panel of a 1990s car stereo)

Monterey Car Week

#Monterey #Cars

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A photo of a Ford classic car

Del Lancer EVO al Abarth eléctrico: ¿evolución o traición?

https://espirituracer.com/opinion/del-lancer-evo-al-abarth-electrico-evolucion-o-traicion/

#37A42 #37A42 #42A45 #Abarth #Elctrico #Gasolina #Mitsubishi #Opinin #Reportajes #Abarth600e #MitsubishiLancerEVO
#espirituRACER #coches #cars

A man in his 20s has been #arrested on suspicion of #DUI after a #fatal collision following a #car / #vehicle #show in #Tewkesbury #Gloucestershire where a vintage #tractor was driven through fields and crashed into a wall and parked #cars

The second day of the car show was cancelled by the organisers.

This is an unusual thing to happen at these fairly middle class organised events, its not exactly a street car meet on an industrial estate (although in the same area someone killed his own brother at a #motocross event last year during a drunken fight)

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/10/man-dies-tractor-driven-into-parked-cars-near-tewkesbury-arrest-vintage-car-show

A video of these cars: https://youtu.be/f7GvQHO4Jrk

Abandoned cars (Autokerkhof E) Netherlands Feb 2021

#urbex #photography #YouTube #lostplace #netherlands #cars #abandoned

Coche del día: Rolls Royce Silver Shadow

https://espirituracer.com/cochedeldia/coche-del-dia-rolls-royce-silver-shadow/

#BerlinaSedn #CocheDelDa #Gasolina #MasDe49 #RollsRoyce #RollsRoyceSilverShadow
#espirituRACER #coches #cars

OnStar can decelerate your car to a stop.

This time, it was used to end a dangerous chase.

But don’t get distracted: ONSTAR CAN BRING YOUR CAR TO A STOP, whenever they wish. How will they (ab)use this power next time?

Yet another reason I hate most modern cars.

#surveillance #control #cars

https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/onstar-assists-chp-in-stopping-fleeing-suv-with-toddler-inside/

I ordered a California Car Cover that arrived recently, and I noticed that it says Covercraft on it. I email their service department and…

…they confirmed it: California Car Covers are (now?) actually manufactured by Covercraft.

#cars #carCovers

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A tag on a car cover that says “Form-Fit by Covercraft”

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An email to me: Hello David, Our covers are assembled at the Cover Craft factory and the Cal Customweave material is commercially known as FormFit trademarked by Covercraft. Thanks for checking, James

OK I have a weird question about #cars.

I took my 2010 #Honda element in for an oil change today and also got some required transmission maintenance done (the car was throwing codes).

When I left the service center, the temperature gauge on my dashboard, the one that tells me the outside temperature, registered as 74° F.

As I drove back home which is about 4 miles, it only went up to 75° F.

Later on when I ran an errand to feed my client's dogs, it was still only reading 75°F.

The temperature today was 99° in the shade!

Obviously something happened during the service that did something to the sensor to make it not read correctly, and of course now they're gone for the weekend.

I don't even know where that sensor sits underneath the hood? I don't know if it may have gotten knocked loose or... something else.

It's not affecting the performance of the car, but I like knowing what the outside temperature is when I'm driving. It's a thing.

I guess I will call them again on Monday (I already left a voicemail). I don't need to spend more money right now as that service was pricey enough, but if they messed this up, they should repair it.

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A close-up of my speedometer which has both the current mileage on this tank of gas and the current outside temperature. The outside temperature reads incorrectly. Yeah, I know I need to dust. my car really only gets a bath about once a year.

Also added red aluminium #DSG paddle shifters (replacing the stubby ones that #VW supply as stock), and selector knob with red #GTI pattern stripes. Got a thinner set of needle nose #pliers with serrated edges to yoink out plastic pins in steering wheel that hold the shifters - all the others I had were too wide by about 2mm.

Had to fork out £13 Earth Pounds to Admiral (about £5 was admin fee) to declare these for #insurance purposes - insurers do check for #mods like these, their staff monitor social media as do more observant Police officers from the Roads Policing Unit should they pull you over!

(I sometimes have to use car parks that is popular with "boy racer" types and the old bill keep an eye on these)

#GolfGTI #CarMaintenance #CarMods #Cars #Volkswagen

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interior accessories for Golf GTI MK7,5 - DSG gear knob surround and paddle shifters

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needle nose pliers, you will need these to extract the pin that holds the paddle shifters to the steering wheel

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Golf GTI steering wheel with new paddle shifters installed

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red striped DSG selector

Subtle #interior #mods for the #GolfGTI - red anodised aluminium surrounds for infotainment and airco controls, and footwell lamps replaced with red LED (interestingly I had always thought those were incandescents, turns out the original VW units *are* white LED but quite dim for some reason!)

When you open the doors they are on 100% brightness but you can set them on the menu screen to whatever brightness you want (I have 30% so they aren't a distraction when driving)

#cars #CarMaintenance #VW #Volkswagen

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Airco and infotainment control surrounds in red and silver

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These items in position in the centre console

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right hand (driver side) footwell LED light

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left hand (passenger side) footwell LED light

El Corvette del Futuro, con Sabor a SoCal

https://espirituracer.com/reportajes/el-corvette-del-futuro-con-sabor-a-socal/

#Chevrolet #Curiosidades #Diseo #Elctrico #Mercado #Prototipos #Reportajes #Superdeportivo #ChevroletCorvette #ChevroletCorvetteC10
#espirituRACER #coches #cars

A video of these cars: https://youtu.be/zhT2wpL8x_o

Abandoned cars (Garage RD) Netherlands Oct 2021

#urbex #photography #YouTube #lostplace #netherlands #cars #abandoned

And now the mid-70s Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham comparison that everyone really wanted to see: next to a 1952 MG TD.

August 5, 2025. Farmington Hills, Michigan.

#car #cars #ClassicCars #MG #MGTD #Cadillac #WeirdCarMastodon #LBC

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Photograph in a parking lot of a dark blue mid-70s Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham seen from the front right with a small 1952 MG TD next to and behind it, and several other small MG T-Series cars behind the TD.

While we’re at it: mid-70s Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham vs. 1952 MG TD, front view.

August 5, 2025. Farmington Hills, Michigan.

#car #cars #ClassicCars #MG #MGTD #Cadillac #WeirdCarMastodon #LBC

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Photograph in a parking lot of a dark blue mid-70s Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham seen from the front next to a small maroon 1952 MG TD to the right.

Lotus Etna 1984: El prototipo de las oportunidades

https://espirituracer.com/subastas/lotus-etna-1984-el-prototipo-de-las-oportunidades/

#Gasolina #Lotus #Prototipos #Subastas #LotusEtna
#espirituRACER #coches #cars

#cardump #cars #mercedes #mercedesBenz