Random Rants
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It's so hard not to rage here daily.
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My little souvenir from Zurich. Can’t believe it took so long. Was there last December, only had an email from the car rental company end of Jan. by the time I got the letter we’re almost in March.. so much for paying within 30days
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As a general rule, we will:
- Publish a release date for a product as soon as we are reasonably confident it will not change
- Publish sizing as soon as we have measured the production run. Measurements of samples are totally irrelevant, they may have been tweaked between sampling and production One of the key reasons for sampling is to check sizing/how the cut fits/how the fabric behaves etc etc
- If sizes change between production runs we will say so, and republish a sizing table
Our goal is to sell as much stuff as possible with the minimum of fuss and minimal returns. So not telling you what is going on and what the actual sizing of product is, would be totally counter productive.
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@RobeOfTheMagi thought the same thing haha
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@louisbosco I wonder if you can claim that it was a calibration issue with the car's speedometer and as far as you could tell you were driving the posted speed limit.
But then again, it may be worth just paying it...
"I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)
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@goosehd said in Random Rants:
I wonder if you can claim that it was a calibration issue with the car's speedometer
No way........We don't get away with shit that easy over here
And for approx USD40 I'd pay and forget......
"OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011
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@goosehd yeah I read that the Swiss bureaucracy is a bitch to navigate. technically, they've already knocked 5km/h off. for what it's worth, I've compared Waze to most new cars digital speedo and the tolerance is 1km/hr.
it's quite an improvement from the traditional dials
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@Giles same thoughts
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@Tago-Mago I’m in my 50’s…
"I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)
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Porsche is probably my favorite automotive marque for road and racing cars. I love their aesthetics and engineering and they’re good at making practical performance cars. This has been the case since my late teens, so I don’t think it’s a midlife crisis thing unless I just did it backwards: before that it was all Ferrari.
I am still a McLaren loyalist in F1 but I love Ferraris drivers and principal.
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@mclaincausey my dream car as a kid was a 928S. Always loved Porsche
1985…from Car and Driver
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@goosehd it's a glorified beetle, I never understood what the fuss is all about. But as is the case with many things - I will never compete with you or @mclaincausey for one of their cars, with the possible exception of a 356. I'd much rather have a Ferrari, although owning either looks very unlikely
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I like the Saab 900.
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911 and legacy Beetles are both rear-engined, air-cooled, and designed by Ferdinand Porsche, but I don’t see much similarity beyond that personally.
And modern Beetles are very far removed from original Beetles and especially a 911.
Both icons, one centered on performance, and one centered on availability to the Everyman.
And Porsche does stuff like introducing numerous industry-changing technologies in the 959, and then putting 911s and 959s in Dakar rallies, and WINNING them.
Then they made the competition-ineligible 919 Evo, just because they wanted to see how far they could push LMP1 performance without regulations, even after dominating LeMans. They then broke a bunch of lap records at iconic tracks just to do it… That is a culture I can get behind.
Not only is Porsche’s story interesting, related makers and tuners like Ruf, Singer, and the like that have coalesced around them have interesting stories and products as well.
I was dismayed when Porsche “sold out” and started making SUVs, but they crushed that too and I’d love to have a Cayenne. Honestly one of the companies I most admire, up there with IH and IH International.
