Category Archives: Volkswagen
The Name is Finnish, Matte Finnish
To view the entire photo gallery in 2D or your choice of stereo 3D formats, click here for a Flash player , here for an HTML applet, or here for an HTML5 viewer Car designers like to be groundbreakers but more often than not … Continue reading
What You Say About Yourself Says A Lot About Yourself
Here’s a brilliant observation: Corporate slogans are as old as corporations. Some are classic such as “Better Living Through Chemistry” (ironic, too, I suppose) or “The Quality Goes In Before The Name Goes On”. Not all carmakers bother with making … Continue reading
The Triumph of the Beta Male. Would Volkswagen Mock Women Like They Mock Men?
I don’t know whether it’s the fact that about 80% of consumer purchase decisions in the US are made by women, or if the Mad Men of the advertising industry have all become beta males, but that industry is clearly … Continue reading
LIC PL8TS of Portage
On our way back home from a tour of old Highway 51 through Wisconsin, some of us stopped in Portage to check out a car show. There was some interesting iron on display but what caught my attention were some … Continue reading
Look What I Found: An Electric Kyote
You don’t see dune buggies around much anymore, especially here in the midwest, so this Jeffries-designed Kyote II really stood out at a car show recently in Huntley, Ill. On closer inspection I discovered that it offers another distinction: it’s … Continue reading
One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other
Notice anything different about these two photographs?
Josef Ganz Biography English Edition Now in PreOrder @ Amazon
UPDATE: Now On Sale
Paul Schilperoord is a Dutch engineer and serious car enthusiast. For the past few years he’s made it his life’s mission to restore Josef Ganz to his rightful role in automotive history. Ganz, was a Jewish engineer and journalist who … Continue reading