In random (and stupid) news, GM is launching a new line of "connected" e-bikes. Connected to what? It's a bike, with an electric motor grafted on. Get that hot garbage outta here! They're even having a challenge to name the brand, visible at www.eBikeBrandChallenge.com. Unfortunately, they actually want you to explain why you chose the name you did, so my plan to troll them is foiled for now.
Your plan to troll them? I bet there's a hundred thousand people doing the same thing, all just as unfunny.
"Funny" doesn't figure into it. My actual plan was to find some obscure language which has a fairly succinct way of saying "life without joy" or something similar, which also sounds breezy and pretentious to an English speaker, and hope they didn't bother to check. Unfortunately, I see now that the task of giving these machines an accurate name will have to be gone about differently.
I think it looks just as nice as the other Lincolns. Nautilus is a nice name for the MKX. Makes me wonder if the rest of the Lincoln lineup that still uses the "MK" naming style will eventually receive more unique names. That Isetta looks like it's beyond saving. I think $3300 is way too much for it. I wouldn't even pay $1000.
Likely. It's probably going to be the same situation like with Peugeot, where certain cars have the popular naming style, and others stray way from that. After all, we still have the Continential and Navigator (and eventually the Aviator).
I have a question about how you ride this bike. According to its on-site desription as "Zero crashes, Zero pollution, Zero congestion", it is fully intangible and you would just fall through it.
It means that the bike can't collide with other objects, basically meaning that it is some sort of physics-breaking teleporter obviously.
I think what they are trying to say is that "Zero crashes, Zero pollution, Zero congestion" is GM's ongoing goal, with these bikes forming part of the strategy towards achieving that. Along side their very large investments in self driving technology, as well as collision avoidance systems. Typically bicycles don't tend to crash so often if you ignore incidents involving cars, so I guess they could make that argument. However, I would agree that it is a bit of a dumb thing to quote on that page specifically. On the topic of crashes... Chris Harris has crashed a Porsche into another car on public roads while filming for a new TopGear series. Needless to say, this could cause some issues for the BBC. Since it could potentially indicate that they may have not been following the law while driving on public roads. Regardless of what happens, there's probably video evidence to show for it. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-46180051
So problems for new age Top Gear still plaguing the BBC? Hilarious. LeBlanc is apparently leaving the show, too.
Yeah, I'm not sure of the details, whether it was staff leaving or the BBC replacing them, but they already have the new hosts lined up. This is the new cast: Freddy Flintoff is a former professional cricket player, however, he has hosted some TV shows since then, but nothing big. Paddy McGuinness was the host of TV dating show "Take me out". Paddy is a comedian, so he might bring some decent humour to the show. Not sure if these new hosts have much more than a passing interest in cars though. I think the BBC needs to slow down the revolving door of hosts. Chemistry between presenters doesn't happen over night, it takes time to form. Every time they get rid of the old presenters and bring new ones in, they reset themselves back to square 0.
Talk about Irish lol Chris Harris is the best part of that show. I want to see a new show or internet series with Chris, Jethro Bovingdon, and Henry Catchpole. They're easily some of the best in auto journalism right now.
