My bro sent me to the new Flash-ness for the new GTI here with the instructions that I "drool, drool, drool."
The car is hot. Yeah, I guess we're siblings.
16 February 2005
07 February 2005
02 February 2005
they do
So... every year in June in San Francisco there is a Height Street Fair. Every year, it seems, I go to that fair without ever meaning to or planning on it. Anyway, the first time it happened I was supposed to meet some people who I never ended up finding, so I ended up walking around this fair that was clearly getting into full swing all around me.
It was a trippy day all in all, but I'll never forget that I ran into this guy who was just insane. He was walking with a staff that had these pins and dangly things, he was wearing lots of jewelry and had this big dreadlocked hair and most significant of all, a big cape covered in silver sequins. He looked very intently at me, seemed to register something and then touched my arm. He said, "Wishes from the heart come true."
It was a trippy day all in all, but I'll never forget that I ran into this guy who was just insane. He was walking with a staff that had these pins and dangly things, he was wearing lots of jewelry and had this big dreadlocked hair and most significant of all, a big cape covered in silver sequins. He looked very intently at me, seemed to register something and then touched my arm. He said, "Wishes from the heart come true."
31 January 2005
hey love crusader, i want to be your space invader
Go here right now and watch the video for this hit song out of Molvania. Yes, it's Eastern Europe. No, I haven't heard of it either.
14 January 2005
08 January 2005
loving the phaeton
This car gets me all... ok I'll stop there. Seriously, the folks at VW just keep outdoing themselves in terms of design.
It has 4Motion, this all-wheel drive system that basically tracks the traction of each wheel separately and applies the ABS individually where needed. If one wheel is slipping, the system applies the brakes to that wheel and gives more torque to a wheel that has better traction. So the car handles great in all weather conditions. Even when you make a turn, power is automatically being shifted.
There are four zones of climate control, and it's all handled without vents blowing on you. The air is totally filtered too.
They combined TWO VR6 engines for this thing. (VW fans know that just one VR6 is pretty damned exciting.) And of course it comes with a Tiptronic transmission. Just looking at the engine makes me all tingly inside.
Massage seats. Automatic tire pressure sensors. Parking sensors (as in the car will tell you how far away you are from an object). 12-speaker sound system that you can set to different modes, if you're on the highway or street driving, etc. The windshield wipers sense how fast they need to be on.
Now, this car just gets a bad rap all around. Everyone agrees it's a fantastic machine, they just know it doesn't work in the market. VW has sold practically none. It's very sad, because people are so attached to the names of Mercedes, Lexus, Audi, that they just won't pay this much for a VW. Those are all great cars, but this one is just wicked. And they think that it was ego on the part of VW, they're just over there stroking themselves, but really they've always been the ones most true to what they do, and they're damned dedicated to good design. So if you want to keep moving onward and upward, this is what you do. It makes sense to me. But they'll probably stop making it in another four years.
It has 4Motion, this all-wheel drive system that basically tracks the traction of each wheel separately and applies the ABS individually where needed. If one wheel is slipping, the system applies the brakes to that wheel and gives more torque to a wheel that has better traction. So the car handles great in all weather conditions. Even when you make a turn, power is automatically being shifted.
There are four zones of climate control, and it's all handled without vents blowing on you. The air is totally filtered too.
They combined TWO VR6 engines for this thing. (VW fans know that just one VR6 is pretty damned exciting.) And of course it comes with a Tiptronic transmission. Just looking at the engine makes me all tingly inside.
Massage seats. Automatic tire pressure sensors. Parking sensors (as in the car will tell you how far away you are from an object). 12-speaker sound system that you can set to different modes, if you're on the highway or street driving, etc. The windshield wipers sense how fast they need to be on.
Now, this car just gets a bad rap all around. Everyone agrees it's a fantastic machine, they just know it doesn't work in the market. VW has sold practically none. It's very sad, because people are so attached to the names of Mercedes, Lexus, Audi, that they just won't pay this much for a VW. Those are all great cars, but this one is just wicked. And they think that it was ego on the part of VW, they're just over there stroking themselves, but really they've always been the ones most true to what they do, and they're damned dedicated to good design. So if you want to keep moving onward and upward, this is what you do. It makes sense to me. But they'll probably stop making it in another four years.
12 December 2004
bon giorno
And she's back. Man I'm already planning my next trip to Italy. Jesus. It's so good. So very, very good. Austria was incredible too, it's everything you would think, especially in the countryside. Very alpine village. So cute. And Vienna contains some of the most beautiful architecture I've ever seen. So much incredible detail.
Unfortunately I LOST most of my pictures but whatever yeah.
Unfortunately I LOST most of my pictures but whatever yeah.
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