Three for the Price of One

Three different articles from the motoring Interwebs caught my eye today and since I can't be bothered making three posts, here they are in one handily sized container.

The first is from the BBC.

It involves a spiteful and presumably very jealous woman who shops as The Asda.  She has been caught on camera kicking and damaging a McLaren 570S.

Stupid cow.

Hopefully the pictures will be good enough to get her charged with criminal damage although I doubt if she will become as infamous and vilified as that cat woman.

Next up, how can you tell that someone is ashamed to admit that they vote Tory or Reform?

Easy, they say that all politicians are the same then go on to slag off The Labour Party

Auto Express's Mike Rutherford is very much in that camp.  In that article, he tries to deflect with a little anti-Trump rant but you would have to be Nigel Farage to say anything complimentary about the orange toddler.

Finally, from Autocar, a bit of nostalgia - remember The Beastie Boys?

They seem to have aged a bit.

They also started the craze of stealing VW badges.

Well it's back! 

Albeit for modern times.

Apparently, the modern badges incorporate the radar unit used by their ADAS systems.

This means that the car’s adaptive cruise control, speed limiter and lane assist will not function.

Maybe it's worth not having the Radar then?

Anyone know where you can buy an old VW badge to replace it?

Maybe the Beastie Boys fans were onto something after all.

Badge of Honor

I've spelled it the American way because this is a story from over there.

According to Car+Driver, Ford can't sell 40 to 45 thousand of their top-selling F150 pick-ups because they are missing a vital part.

Which vital part?

Is it something to do with the global chip shortage?

Nope.

It seems to be to do with a naughty company called Tribar.

Here's the story as told by the website of Michigan Radio.  Basically, Tribar accidentally released about 10,000 gallons of hexavalent chromium solution into the local water system.

It's not nice stuff and it's not the first time this has happened.

Oops.

Although it is quite useful, for example, in the manufacture of Ford badges.

Tribar are now running at reduced capacity while they are trying to clean up their mess and Ford have a shortage of car badges.

It is probable that the two events are connected - ether that or the lots of little badges have been melted to make one big one for this place:

After all, it is named after the Ford badge.  It's called Blue Oval City.  Hope they've got a nice, clean water supply.