Timeless (2016-2018) The Darlington 500
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The Time Team chases Rittenhouse to a stock car race in the 1950s where Wyatt learns that his favorite race car driver is actually a Rittenhouse sleeper agent on a mission to destroy the American car industry. To stop the Rittenhouse plan, Wyatt, Lucy and Rufus team up with Wendell Scott, the first African-American NASCAR driver.
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there’s a lot of scummy shit going around in the car industry right now, but i think some of the most nauseating shit is car features requiring subscriptions.
cars are not fucking video games or streaming services. they are transportation devices. if the car has a self-tracking feature, or heated seats, or a HUD, then it is built into the car. there is NO REASON to put it behind a paywall lther than companies trying to suck their customer’s wallets dry.
it is becoming more and more clear that automotive companies are caring more about profit margins than they care about providing their customers with safe, comfortable vehicles. and their concerns about a “pleasant driving experience” died out long ago
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How the Car Industry Made Walking Illegal
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Google translator would have been useful. Four car names that do not sound good in Hungary.
You wouldn't think it, but car brands do name their models consciously. Usually serious "scientific" work precedes the birth of the model name. It doesn't matter where in the world the car is made, every car needs an appropriate model name to be successful in the market.
The choice of name is also important because the success or failure of the expensively developed novelty may depend on it. It is important that the final version selected from hundreds of options is short and pleasant-sounding, does not have any obscene meaning in any language, matches the character of the car, and the owner can proudly tell his friends about the car he has chosen. Despite their best efforts, car manufacturers sometimes make mistakes. Let's look at four car models whose names are not very favourable on the Hungarian market.
Chevrolet Tahoe (written in Hungarian as: Tahó)
It is pronounced almost the same in Hungary as in America. But it means something completely different. Although the name seems completely innocent in America, in Hungary this term sounds particularly rude. In Hungarian, it roughly means hick. So it refers to a person who is rude, uneducated and impolite. So, in summary, it's not a very nice expression. The only excuse is that it is not distributed in Europe. Which is not necessarily a problem, because if you tried to drive in Hungary with a car of this size, you could easily be seen as a tahó.
Toyota Prius (written in Hungarian as: Priusz)
This is one of the funniest examples on this list. The word means: criminal record. Very poor choice of name. Perhaps I don't even need to emphasize that they are typically bought by people who don't even know a person with a criminal record, so they couldn't be further from the gang life style. What is really surprising is that even with this name it is one of the most popular cars on the Hungarian market.
SEAT Ronda (It is written the same way in Hungarian)
There's really nothing to explain here. Ronda means ugly. And that's really the case. The model would certainly not have been successful in Hungary if the brand had started to be distributed in its infancy. Fortunately, it only entered the Hungarian market as a used car later. Although this was obviously not a conscious decision in this form, we can at least see it as honest marketing communication.
Volkswagen Polo (written in Hungarian as: Póló)
In its category, this car was one of the most popular and best-selling cars in Hungary. What could be wrong with its name? Well, that's almost exactly how we pronounce t-shirt in Hungarian. At least this name is not offensive, but it is also not a really attractive name. When the car was released, the jokes that "I don't drive the polo, I wear it" were inevitable. Despite the lame name, the car had a good career in Hungary.
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استفاده آلومینیوم در صنایع خودروسازی
امروزه قطعات آلومینیومی در یک خودرو میتواند وزنی بین ۵۰ تا۵۵۰ را به خود اختصاص دهند آلومینیوم بهطور جدی با سایر مواد سبک مانند گریدهای جدید استیل، منیزیم و پلاستیکهای استحکامبخشیشده در رقابت است. اما با وجود خواصی مانند دسترسی مناسب، بازیافتپذیری و ظرفیت تولید انبوه با قیمت مناسب همچنان جایگاه خود را حفظ میکند. با وجود انتظارات اقتصادی و محیط زیستی و با توجه به پیشرفتهای دهههای اخیر در استفاده از آلومینیوم در صنایع خوردوسازی، انتظار میرود استفاده از این فلز در آینده نزدیک گسترش قابلتوجهی یابد.
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China's Electric Vehicle Revolution Comes for German Industry
China's Electric Vehicle Revolution Comes for German Industry
The management of the German auto industry has only themselves to blame. They, including the politicians, were warned in time about the processes in the electric car market already in 2017, but they absolutely did not want to see the facts. There is a heavy price to pay for foolishly following completely wrong politically correct political theories...! It is most likely that by continuing the current course of doing nothing and outsourcing bureaucratizing almost everything, the German car industry will lose a significant share of the global car market quite rapidly...
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Indiferent de oră , FMN Rent a Car este aici pentru tine cu suport non-stop .
Fie că ai nevoie de o mașină economică pentru o escapadă rapidă sau de un vehicul premium pentru o ocazie specială , te asigurăm că vei primi cele mai bune servicii de car rental .
Toate mașinile noastre sunt igienizate și verificate tehnic , astfel încât tu să te bucuri de o experiență placuta .
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