International Post Stories About Volkswagen Day

I probably need to visit autoguide.com more often.

If I'd visited it on April 21st I'd have read this story and learned that April 22nd was Earth Day.

And on Earth Day, but just for that day, VW in Canada made their website more eco-friendly.  Apparently, websites can use up energy (and therefore resources) too so they made it more efficient by using plain text and simple pictures. They reckon that the simpler version "generates an estimated 93% less Carbon Dioxide" than their usual landing page - which they've now gone back to.

I'm not sure how much that day will have compensated for the nitrous oxide emitted as a result of the fiddling by their German colleagues but I'm sure it's a start.

If you want to see the VW Canada page from that day, a neat little website tool called The Wayback Machine  can help - take a look here.

Meanwhile, another "World" Day missed by me but not by Volkswagen was this Wednesday which was "World Design Day". Car+Driver are reporting on a world design whereby VW have chopped the back off a Buzz to make a pick-up.

Here's a copy of what was put onto chief designer Klaus Zyciora’s Instagram profile:

I get what they are going for...

But it doesn't really work for me.

Anyway, I'm going to finish this article here because I need to prepare for National Chocolate Parfait Day tomorrow.

Things...Can Only Get Better?

Well they can't get any worse than the Website I accidentally stumbled upon this evening called "The THINGS .Com"

They have a writer called Chris Flynn who they claim, "is a proficient reader and writer. He has written for many publications including TheRichest, TheClever, TheQuiz, and ListVerse. Cars are his passion."

I can read - and write.  I can even do them proficiently.  I have never heard of any of the publications listed but suspect they are Websites not actual publications.  Cars are my passion too.

But when I write about cars, I don't simply produce lists of 15 things about them all day.

But that does seem to be what the whole THINGS website consists of.

To be fair to the lad, the item that I stumbled upon was actually a list of NINETEEN things.  Allegedly, a list of "19 French And German Cars We Wouldn’t Touch With A 10-Foot-Pole" headed up by a picture of James May modelling a KV Mini 1:



Only problem is, the list consists of 10 pretty decent German cars and 9 arguably crap French ones.

 

No mention of the Trabant or the NSU Ro80 or the Messerschmitt KR200 - just Mercs, Audis and Beemers - does the passionate car man have a problem with the prestige German brands?

 

Then maybe he should be learning about DS - the Citroen offshoot who produce far from crap French cars.

 

Remember the Citroen C6? 

Beautiful, quirky and luxurious - much like the CX before it: 

And the SM and the XM?  All decent large barges that only seemed really popular in France.  French presidents have always been driven about in large Citroens.

 

Which was good news for people looking to buy them after they had depreciated.  This is possibly because the Citroen brand never had the luxury cachet outside of France.

 

Well hopefully the DS brand will have it as this Car+Driver story about the DS9 heralds in the next French luxo-barge and it looks bloody good too: 

 My next article will be a list of 15 Websites I must remember not to visit again.