It was going down the street in downtown Palo Alto, which is fairly congested, so it was going slow. I was busy pulling into a nearby parking lot so I didn't get a real close look but I watched it drive down the street for a minute or two.
It was unusual looking, but not pretty. Like steel origami. If the future looks like this, the future is stark, angular and sorta brutal looking, and overall.....rather bland.
One crashed nearby just the other day -- saw this photo in the local news:
Personally I'd like it better if some of the old, but completely functional, designs were updated using modern technologies, materials and parts. The streets and parking lots would sure be more visually interesting. Gimme an electric one of these with heated seats and Sirius radio.:
^ Studebaker got a jump on both GM and Ford by decades when they introduced the Coupe Express to the market in 1937.
Plenty of battery storage space under that hood. (I wonder if a Cybertruck will last 40 + years?):
Produced in Rolls-Royce’s Springfield, Massachusetts, assembly plant as a 1926-model-year 40/50HP Silver Ghost Tilbury Sedan with Willoughby & Co. coachwork. It was converted into a work truck in the 1940s by citrus farmer Lindley Bothwell and was used for 40 years for ranch chores.
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on Thursday, January 4, 2024 – 12:02 pm
> the future is stark,
> the future is stark, angular and sorta brutal looking, and overall.....rather bland.
I saw one of the Tesla trucks on the freeway when I was in the Bay Area a few weeks ago. I thought it looked like a second runner-up in a high school robotics competition.
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on Thursday, January 4, 2024 – 02:30 pm
criminally ugly
criminally ugly
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on Thursday, January 4, 2024 – 05:06 pm
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on Friday, January 5, 2024 – 03:43 pm
i'm fixing up a 2000 tundra.
i'm fixing up a 2000 tundra. just needs body/suspension. bet it lasts longer than those stupid things.