Cool CX, perhaps not in best possible shape, but a Turbo all the same

Back at work after our big tour of Estonia. Lake Peipus (the largest trans-boundary lake in Europe), Tartu university town, Võrumaa, Setomaa, the Valga/Valka Estonian/Latvian border town, and finally a few days at the beach in Pärnu. Great country, good roads, really nice food, excellent weather.

Speaking of Volvos based on some other tech:

I won’t bore you with the old spiel about driving a thirsty car forever vs replacing it with an EV, but these cars parked next to each other really stopped me in my tracks. Despite its freshness, tech and packaging, the EX30 can never match the old V70 in integrity, longevity, ergonomics or style.

Yellow box with very cool wheels.

Roadtrip vibes with the roof rack

Shortest, tallest Sprinter I’ve seen

This is what you want / This is what you get

A Michigan built diesel convertible not sold in America.

Michigan built Focus, in Estonia!

"French electronic music producer and DJ Kavinsky, whose real name was Vincent Belorgey, has died at the age of 50, Le Parisien learned on Wednesday, July 29." Oh no. So young 😭 I love his music.

Nightcall

YouTube video by Kavinsky - Topic

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Le Parisien@leparisien.fr · last wk.

🔵 INFO LE PARISIEN | Le DJ français Kavinsky a été retrouvé mort à son domicile parisien ➡️ https://l.leparisien.fr/b9Vs

Unsure if I’ve seen a Galant of this gen in person!

Saab Cabrio: lottery winner spec

I don’t think Mercedes has designed a better looking wheel

What’s this, then?

Having lunch at the border town of Valga/Valka, where you can have one foot in Estonia and the other in Latvia. I also spotted this municipal Mitsubishi i-MiEV while taking shelter from the rain.

Quite.

Spotted a big old Mercedes on an ice cream run

Japan import Accord wagon!

Guy whose only frame of reference is Japanese cinema: ”Madama Butterfly sure sounded like Hisaishi” (It’s me, I’m that guy)

Rrroyal

Excellent wheels

Spotted the Harlequin replica again.

Alternatively

Josephine "beckbook.com" Riesman@josie.zone · 3w ago

Okay, prompt time: What is your favorite iconic _L.A. Movie_ that isn't HEAT (1995)? Define "iconic" however you like

I can already say this has made my information superhighway experience so much worse www.theverge.com/tech/959658/...

Google’s killing off Tenor GIF searches in other apps

But not for its own services.

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Love to see a 320i that has ”320” on the plate

Figaro figaro figaro fii gaa roo

There’s a 355k km Corolla 1.4 D4-D diesel in the next town over. It’s cheap, perhaps because it’s got the MMT MultiMediaModeManual gearbox. I was moderately interested and after watching this clip, I am no longer interested (except in a technical sense) www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZY6...

Toyota MMT Transmission vlog - Is it really that bad?

YouTube video by Endfloat

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A good set of wheels does so much to any S210.