The Undertakers

 This is one of several versions of my favourite anti-drink-drive adverts:

The caption is usually something like, "Who is going to drive you home tonight?"

Most excellent.

This morning, my dash-cam caught a couple of candidates for the undertakers undertaking undertaking manoeuvres.

The first one is an impatient van driver who doesn't appreciate driving at 25mph in the 20mph zone I highlighted the other week.

I have no sympathy for him - he is a tosser.

The second one though, I may have to admit doing myself - I hate middle-lane hogs.

And will someone please remind me to shift that flyer from my dashboard?

Criticism of SUVs

The number of times that I have criticised SUVs on my Blog is almost incalculable.  It would involve doing a search for the term in my entire Blog history and then assuming I've said something derogatory against each reference.

Anyway, this story led me down an internet rabbit-hole today with me ending up on a Wikipedia page entitled, "Criticism of SUVs"

I've always hated them because they are pointless.

Unless you are a farmer or live in a remote bit of Africa.

I particularly hate that people buy them because they feel safer than us normal people in them - a point admirably disproved in that story with evidence provided in the Wiki page.

Then, thanks to the stupidly named and stupidly existing Nissan Qashqai, they became trendy.

And don't get me started on the stupidly named and stupidly existing Nissan Juke.

Is there also an element that as people get bigger, their vehicles have to as well?

Maybe - but they don't have to get taller and heavier - well maybe the electric ones have to get heavier - but once they sort out battery technologies the weights should come back down again.

This trend - autobesity - also has it's own, somewhat less comprehensive, Wiki page.

Now, if someone would just link SUVs to obesity - then maybe people would stop viewing them so positively and we could go back to proper cars that fitted into parking spaces and handled properly.

And didn't look stupid.

Is it because I is black?

We know that it is illegal to impersonate a police officer.

But what about impersonating a police vehicle?

Check out the full story here.

The Numbers Up!

No, this isn't a Volkswagen story - it's a Polestar story.

Their boss, Thomas Ingenlath, has been talking about the future.

Drive.com.au are reporting on it here.

When it comes time for a replacement, the Polestar 2...

...is not going to be replaced with another Polestar 2.

It will be replaced with the Polestar n 

where

n =

the next integer not already assigned to a Polestar.

And the rest of the range...

...will follow suit as their lifespans also come to an end.

Apparently this means that they aren't stuck forever with a car called the Polestar 2 never being able to evolve into anything other than an electric SUV that is actually more of a saloon car - which, incidentally is why I like it - it isn't, despite what Polestar tell you, an SUV.

I wonder how many years it will be before they realise the error of this strategy and change to a better system.

In 15 years time, people will be having conversations like...

• "I really fancy a Polestar 17"
• "Really? Why do you want a van?"
• "I don't! The 17 is a two-seater sports car."
• "I thought the sports car was the Polestar 19"

And in 45 years time, people will be having conversations like...

• "I really fancy a Polestar 102"
• "Really? Why do you want a van?"
• "I don't! The 102 is a two-seater sports car."
• "I thought the sports car was the Polestar 114"

Or maybe, just maybe, retro will be back in - and they'll do a cute new Polestar 2.

I wonder where that idea suddenly sprang in to my head from?