How to destroy a motorcycle industry
Copywriter seriously unimpressed.
Off the top of my head I’d say it’s a funky moped.
I know what it is. This is a genuine advertisement for it. It was how BSA killed off the Ariel brand.
Wall-Mart engine swap
Yikes! Using a scissors jack with no jack stands!
Let’s grow cars!
[US moves to ban Chinese, Russian tech from autonomous cars – DW – 09/23/2024]
How about just banning “autonomous” vehicles? They kill jobs and they’re bloody dangerous.
How long does it take now, by rail or car?
10 to 12 hours by car if traffic allows, not counting any pit stops.
There is basically a northern route where you drive through the Netherlands and Belgium, a slightly less northern route where you skip the Netherlands and just go through Belgium, and a southern route where you skip the Benelux countries altogether and enter France from the Saarland. And if that’s your thing you could make a small detour and include the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg; I’d say that’d be maybe an extra 2 hours.
Train, 9 to 10 hours, but you’d have to change trains at least twice.
Similar options as going by car, like going via Cologne and Bruxelles to Paris Nord or via Strasbourg to Paris Est and so on.
You could use the Eurostar (the train formerly known as Thalys) on the northern route or take the TGV from Mannheim or Heidelberg on the southern route. You could even go to Paris Gare de Lyon via Basel with changing trains just once, but adding ~2 hours of travel time.
But which is the most scenic route to travel?
Also, I know it’s not, but when I was a kid, my family liked to play Milles Bornes, and I always imagined that it was a racing game between Paris and Berlin…
Hard to say, hard to say… Depends very much on personal taste. Lots to see on either route and mode of transportation. No proper mountains in any case.
Hopefully, it’s a trip I’ll get to make…
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/19/business/china-automakers-eu-tariffs.html
Chinese Automakers’ Answer to E.U. Tariffs: Build in Europe
BYD, which leads China’s electric vehicle sector, is constructing a plant in Hungary while its Chinese rivals expand through joint ventures in Europe.
Well that’s what tariffs are about really.
As I said BYD need to ditch some inventory while they are waiting for tariffs to kick in/build factories so are selling off cheaper than last year.
ETA
European Chinese tariffs are a minefield as most “European” electric cars are more Chinese than anything else!
