One of the quirks of our industry is that our stories don’t always reach the far-flung corners of the world. This is not too surprising, as some stories have limited international appeal. But sometimes, eyes from all over the globe will read about something silly involving a weird car enthusiast from America.
Jason wrote about how the Times of India wrote about the theft of his old Volkswagen Beetle. Totally not a robot:
Between this story in India and the Chinese media coverage of his Changli, Torch has reached nearly half the global population. All with two cars that might be worth $5000 in total. Talk about efficiency.
Move over, Pitbull, we have a new Mr. Worldwide!
10001010:
…reminding me that I need to get my Beetle running again
Yes!!! How many weeks until Moab?
Spikersaurusrex:
“…the relentless specter called Find Something To Write About that haunts your every waking moment…”
I am constantly in awe of you creative people who can produce seemingly endless content. There’s no way I could do it, and I’ll be honest, it makes me see you as a little more human that you admit this is a thing. I’m still in awe.
I’m in awe of how I continue to do it, too!
Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man:
Headline from an article from last weeks Times of India: Dewey Defeats Truman.
DialMforMiata:
Just wait until ten years from now when they write about the “Michigan man with yard full of cars forced to sell them and move to Los Angeles”.
Dodsworth:
I can’t wait for the movie. Tom Cruise as Jason, Ethan Hawke as David, and Margaret Qualley as “Elise,” the woman who showed David a better way of life. The Art of Rusting Your Cars in the Rain.
A. Barth:
Now it’s your turn, Jason: I challenge you to find an interesting car event that happened 13 years ago in India so you can write about it.
DialMforMiata:
Torch writing about Tatas? what could possibly go wrong?
Taargus Taargus makes a good point:
Pretty sure Times of India produces a ton of AI slop articles, and in this instance, is probably just using old stories, releasing them as clickbait, to essentially profit off your own experience and accounting of it on the internet.
I uhhhhh, wouldn’t be so excited about this personally. But maybe that’s the joke.
Stryker_T:
It’s 100% this.
In 10 more years it’ll be an AI post about this post about the AI post.
Ffoc01:
Wanna feel old Torch? That ’98 New Beetle in the story is nearly 30 years old today. How old was your ’73 bug when you got it?
Jason wrote about how you can now play games on VW infotainment screens. Canopysaurus:
Aren’t you already playing games just by buying a Volkswagen?
I wrote about GM’s new 8.3-liter Duramax V8 diesel. Nsane In The MembraNe:
GM and releasing a compelling product at the absolute worst time possible-name a more iconic duo.
Thomas wrote about the Bentley Torcal. Jdoubledub:
Hey electrical nerds! What’s an anachronistic way they could express the 113kwh similar to how they did the 6 3/4 liters (instead of 6.75) for…British reasons.
Cheap Bastard:
British Thermal Units. Just multiply the value of kWh by 3414. So this 113kWh battery becomes a 386 3/4 kBTU battery.
Have a great evening, everyone!
Top graphic image: Jason Torchinsky
Finally broke my COTD drought. I’d like to thank the academy, and also the multiple billions of people in Asia.
To be clear, joking about Moab but 100% serious that we would LOVE a series of articles about bringing the Beetle back to the road!
Just for the record, Dewey Did Not defeat Truman. 🙂
Hey! Thank you very much!
That 386 3/4 kBTU battery really contributes to the 440 stone weight of the Torcal.
We don’t use stones for car weight, but do use cwt = 112lbs… because 1cwt = 8 stone.
(16oz = 1lb
14lb = 1 stone
8 stone = 1cwt
20cwt = 1 long ton
You know it makes sense.)
0.208 Planck energies
2.54 × 10²⁷ electronvolts
97,200 food Calories
97.2 kg of TNT equivalent