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A year later and the best they can do is Cadzzilla*? No wonder their stock dropped.
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Facebook's $267 billion stock market collapse is the ultimate proof that Mark Zuckerberg doesn't know what he's doing
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Facebook has been "in crisis" before ... February 3, the day after the company's earnings, Meta's stock dropped by over 26% and registered the largest single-day value wipeout in US history. All told, $240 billion was shaved off its market capitalization.
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Billy Gibbons' Copperhead:
www.jalopyjournal.com/?p=43429
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This amazing and yet classic car is based on a 1948 Cadillac Series 62 Sedanette and was buit or built for rocker Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top. The name actually consists of 3 words: Cadillac, ZZ Top and Godzilla. Even the license plate says "I8TOKYO" ["I ate Tokyo" - a reference to famous Godzilla movie].
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One of my favorite aerodynamic cars is the Volkhart-Sagitta V-2 and one of my favorite features is the way the front fenders fall away from the A-pillar [such as it is].
Now look at the windsplits on the Ferrari F8 Tributo:
It looks like they divide the airflow so that the rear view mirrors are in a wind shadow.
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Another comparison with the Volkhart-Sagitta. I was watching a video on industrial design, and he mentioned that the Convair Model 118 would do 90mph on the road, with a 26 HP Crosley engine.
vintagenewsdaily.com/historical-photos-of-convair-model-118-convaircar-a-prototype-flying-car-of-which-only-2-were-built-in-1947/
Similar performance for a 4-passenger car with a rear 4-cylinder engine. Forget the flying-car-death-trap part.
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Makes me nostalgic for CarBEN.
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Now I want a garden tractor.
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Apparently it has a Porsche engine and is one of 200 built to work on Coffee farms. Streamlined not for speed, but to keep from damaging the coffee trees.
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Classic and Sportscar, June 1994
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A german magazine commissioned an artist's interpretation, which doesn't have quite the panache of the version above, with these knife edge narrow guards, and huge chrome radiator surround. The headlights seem to perch out front with no shaping or nacelle merging back into the guards.
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I'm not sold on the accuracy of the blue rendering.
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