Turkish Delight

I take no delight in another new SUV:

which, let's be honest looks like all of the others out there: 

 

And that's only a selection.

 

Yuk.

 

This one though is an EV and it has an interesting interior:

The other thing interesting about it is that it is Turkish.  Car+Driver have the story here.  They say that this car is from the first ever Turkish car company.  Although Wikipedia tends to differ with that statement and given that they provide photos of various old Turkish cars, I'll go with Wiki on this one.

 

This new brand is TOGG - which Car+Driver helpfully tell us stands for "Türkiye’nin Otomobili Girişim Grubu" which it doesn't helpfully tell us translates as "Turkey's Automobile Enterprise Group" - Google did that.

 

As opposed to FIAT which stands for "Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino" meaning "Italian automobile factory of Turin”

 

Or SEAT which stands for "Sociedad Española de Automóviles de Turismo" with the altogether cooler translation of "Spanish Society of Touring Cars"

 

Turkey has been advertising a lot on telly lately as a holiday destination but given their current president (in this story getting involved with TOGG) and what he has done to the Kurds, I think I'll give it all a miss.

 

Here's the only Turk I find delightful: 

and he's Northern Irish.

Is This a Device for Identifying Homosexual Gentlemen in a Postal Region of Glasgow?

No, that would be a Gaydar G34 NOT a Vaydor G35.

G34 is Easterhouse, G35 doesn't exist as a postcode area.

It does exist as a Vaydor though:

Looks impressive doesn't it?  Even though it is basically a rebodied one of these:

- which is also called a G35 - an Infiniti G35.

 

I'd never heard of that either, nor had I heard of the film Suicide Squad which must be Batman-ish because apparently The Joker drives a Vaydor G35 in it.

 

Well, thanks to Car+Driver and someone using the giant rear spoiler as a tree-cradle, I have now heard of all three. 

 Fir enough.

Leon All Messy

I'm not really into car air fresheners.  But I suppose that they are less offensive than cigarette smoke.

Your average smoker probably doesn't even realise how bad the smell is.

The owner of the Seat Leon in this BBC story though decided to spray the interior of his car BEFORE he lit up.

Lord knows how bad it must have smelt for a smoker to think it needed improvement.

And an awful lot of air freshener at that.

Enough to blow his car up.  The explosion "blew out the windscreen and windows and buckled the doors but the man escaped with only minor injuries."

 

Looks even worse than that to me: 

 Bet it doesn't smell of cigarettes now though.

Mickey Mouse Car II

Well, Disney anyway.


Saw this in Autoguide today about a new Ferrari patent.


They are suggesting an F1-style Halo bar on the windscreen:

Apart from the obvious visibility issues and the ridiculously low probability of a chunk of something hitting the middle of the windscreen, all I can think of is this:

Mickey Mouse Car

Someone in the Chevrolet Marketing Department deserves a raise.

The current version of the Chevrolet Suburban has been around since 2015, though the original model dates back to 1934. A twelfth-generation model debuts later this month - the same month the SUV gets a star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Yes, you read that right. Not even a specific one from a specific movie - just "Chevrolet Suburban" like "Marilyn Monroe" or "Richard Burton"

Here's the NBC News story.

Apparently anyone with $50,000 to spare can make a nomination.  There have been 34 accepted this year out of about 300 and the Suburban has been accepted due to it's prolific TV and film appearances.

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