The Best Button You Can Have In Your Dutch Car: COTD

One of my favorite parts about messing around with an old car is discovering what all of the buttons do. Most of the cars you drive today are going to have buttons with fairly obvious functions. But old cars? Oh, good luck! Our fearless leader Jason got to judge a Concurs D’Lemons, where he found a DAF van.

That van had a bizarre prism-looking button. Apparently, this button holds your low ratio, which both makes sense and kills the fun. But don’t worry, for Scott Ashley brings the fun back:

It deploys the prism hood ornament and starts playing “Dark side of the moon”

Countless water-cooled Volkswagen enthusiasts love the objectively insane era of Ferdinand Piëch. Under Piëch rule, Volkswagen’s engineering became equal parts terrifying and amazing, as did the models. The Phaeton is one of the coolest cars ever to wear a VW badge, but failed to sell many units. I mean, VW was selling a Bentley level luxury car at the same dealers that peddled New Beetles.

V10omous makes me curious, will this happen with the new N Vision 74?

It seems obvious to me that this should be sold and serviced as a Genesis model, both for the dealer experience and because logically expensive cars go with luxury brands.

Selling a 6-figure Hyundai reeks of Phaeton 2.0, regardless of how cool the vehicle itself is.

Currently, many Genesis cars are sold out of Hyundai showrooms and that brand appears to be doing ok with sales. So, maybe that’s not going to be an issue?

Sometimes we have an internal debate about whether a post should be written or published, or whether the arguments presented in an article make sense. We never want to publish pure rubbish or something that we didn’t think about first. Jason wrote about how this applied to the Karma Revero. AssMatt comments:

“far too much time”

Journalistic integrity is hard and friends agreeing is sometimes harder. I’m suprised this wasn’t a SlackTales (ooo e oo).

StillNotATony also got me:

This reminds me so much of listening to my children fight.

IF YOU TWO DON’T STOP FIGHTING, I WILL TURN THIS WEBSITE AROUND AND NOBODY GETS ANY ICE CREAM!!! DON’T THINK I WON’T DO IT!!!

Finally, let’s stop at the Morning Dump, where we got to learn about Polestar’s new CEO. Alexk98 points out something amusing:

Michael Lohscheller, who has previously served as CEO of Opel, VinFast and Nikola

That’s certainly one of the resumes of all time.

Have a great evening, everyone!