Noot noot!
https://twitter.com/b_b_b_0719_ktm/status/1536515773963059200

(Yes I know it's a video, but it's so short it may as well have been a gif...)

Broncout or Scounco , your choice...

Man, I wish I could do that kind of photoshopping. I guarantee the world would love my 1968 Mercury Mountaineer, and maybe even my 1972 DeSoto Firedome.

Dutch person bought a Dodge Ram and now the city is blocked:

https://twitter.com/kunsttranen/status/1541073620360994817

He failed zoology:

Yes, these ugly narrow pittoresque historic European cities are very annoying for us divers of oversized US tankers.

For that reason I avoid driving into towns with my Durango (the SUV brother of this RAM). Fortunately I live on the country side and when I have to go to my company in the town of Dortmund, I have an own large parking space on the ground.

Two weeks ago, when I made with my godchild a trip to Berlin, I had to solve the parking problem:
as it was 39 degrees Celsius, when we drove to Berlin, I looked for a parking garage there.
There existed no parking garages in the DDR, except two after 1990 new built parking garages, all actual ones stand in West-Berlin - and were built in the 6üies and 70ies, so with ugly narrow ramps and parking boxes.
The 60ies garage on the Kurfürstendamm near the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche was, as expected- very narrow, so I had to drive the ramps carefully centimeter by centimeter and also had to take two boxes - the lady in the MINI behind me became really mad :D, but I finally made it.


As since nearly two years I'm a member of the committee for building and traffic of our municipal council, I already made the proposition to enlarge the public parking lots for cars like mine (in my village there are one Durango, one Navigator and over a dozen of RAMs), but due national regulations this size cannot be changed individually.
Fortunately I'm not from the Grünen (the Green party) - Greens would go ballistic at such topics as asking for privileges for oversized American gas guzzlers

Indeed the spaces will have to get wider not just for Durangos but the Golf has grown wider each generation...

Volkswagen Golf Mk7: 1,791 mm
Volkswagen Golf Mk6: 1,779 mm
Volkswagen Golf Mk5: 1,759 mm
Volkswagen Golf Mk4: 1,735 mm
Volkswagen Golf Mk3: 1,694 mm
Volkswagen Golf Mk2: 1,665 mm
Volkswagen Golf Mk1: 1,610 mm

While talking with a friend about this legendary junkyard (I had the luck to visit the former situation in 1999) I saw, that there areca few pics from the old times on his homepage:

http://carlovanlingen.be/historie

some more here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/159010109@N02/
My friend 'tinhunter' Martin has made back then 3000 photos just on this single place

Belgium's biggest car cemetery with 10,000 cars... too bad it's gone. Would be more interesting to visit than Stonehenge. Although I'd probably want to buy too much.

Don't say it's for big US pickups and SUV, say it's also for big US electric cars. The Tesla Y is 197,8 cm wide with the mirrors folded.

https://electrek.co/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/03/Screen-Shot-2020-03-13-at-4.06.04-PM.jpg

Back then there were nearly no usable parts any more in the wrecks.
Beside they were mostly already dismantled, they were totally gone after those years in the yard. Some cars were just fallen to dust.





No idea - BEV-cars are out of my horizon.
They dont exist for me.

A Jimny-ified Honda Beat somehow made its way on to my Twitter feed...
https://twitter.com/KIIRE_PP1/status/1571027001011765249

Happy Halloween to all...

This man brought a JDM N-ONE from UK and imported in the USA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ovo2nXq_uE&ab_channel=WatchJRGo

That one Astra antp should drive

can you imagine that thing crashing into another one ...

https://www.facebook.com/lenouvelautomobiliste/photos/a.706248249488985/57288943- 40557659/



In the 70s cars were more colourful

So, there's this Game/Anime I've been sitting on for a while for IMCDb titled Umamusume (I promise, if I ever get around watching season 2 I'll make an IMCDb page...) where famous Japanese racehorses are turned in to waifus... The owner of one of the featured horses chanced upon an itasha of his Anime-fied horse
https://twitter.com/seiun0005/status/1614697888843726848

P.S. apparently both vehicles are owned by a grandson of another horse owner, though his horse hasn't become a horse girl to my knowledge.

ouch.. after reading that i need a pair of Tylenol...