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Friday 19th of April 2024

1%ers say The best gift I've received recently was a limited edition 12-cylinder Aston-Martin Vanquish and a vintage 1960s Corvette, for my birthday. I have some beautiful sports cars that I like to look at but rarely have time to drive – maybe one day. Fawaz Gruoisi, jeweler, How To Spend It, June 10, 2016 © 2015 Kwiple.com
American Dream A high Uber rating © 2018 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Amount that North Korea owes New York City in parking tickets: $152,505 That Egypt owes: $1,989,554   Harper's Index, December 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Average number of hours that a driver in Los Angeles spends sitting in traffic each year: 104 That a driver in New York City spends looking for a parking spot: 107 Harper's Index, October 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Number of U.S. states in which legislation has been proposed this year  to protect drivers who strike protesters: 6 Harper's Index, November 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Perentage by which using traffic circles rather than stop signs at intersections decreases injurious car accidents: 75 Percentage of U.S. intersections that are traffic circles: 0.09 Harper's Index, June 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
By the numbers Percentage change since 2006 in the number of U.S. cities that have banned living in vehicles: +143 Harper's Index, March 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
By the numbers With more than 35,000 road deaths a year, the US has the highest rate of fatal auto accidents per capita of any high-income country, and almost all of these are caused by human error. Financial Times, September 21, 2016 © 2016 Kwiple.com
Car culture Americans are so dependent on their cars that investors are betting that they would rather lose their home to foreclosure than their car to repossession. Or in the words of a Santandar Consumer investor, “You can sleep in your car, but you can't drive your house to work.” New York Times, January 27, 2015 (Santandar Consumer is a leading high-interest subprime auto lender) © 2015 Kwiple.com
Car culture Ordering a car via an app means the profits leave town. Margaret Heffernan, Financial Times, April 17, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Car culture The pattern of car purchasing maps on to the US political divide.  Republicans are more likely than Democrats to buy a new vehicle of any kind, and vastly more likely to buy a big one. About 65 per cent of buyers of the largest pickup trucks, utility vehicles and SUVs last year were Republican, compared with just 15 per cent bought by Democrats, according to a survey by the research company Strategic Vision. John Burn-Murdoch, Financial Times, February 23, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Car culture A survey by Accenture found that only 2 per cent of car executives “plan to significantly increase investment” in reskilling programmes, even though most acknowledge that workers require new skill sets to work with robotics, cloud computing and artificial intelligence. Financial Times, June 17, 2018 [They rather hire new workers] © 2018 Kwiple.com
Car culture The worst-kept secret in Motown is a forthcoming long-wheelbase version [of  the Jeep Grand Wagoneer] to compete with Suburban, Navigator I, and Escalade ESV. Good news, equestrians, now your horse doesn't have to ride in the trailer. Dan Neil, Wall Street Journal, March 17, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Cars The average annual cost of ownership is up more than 13 percent from last year to more than $12,000, or just over $1,000 a month, according to the latest research from the automobile owners group AAA. … It estimates the cost of using a new car over five years and 75,000 miles, con- sidering costs for fuel and maintenance, insurance, license and registration fees, taxes, and depreciation. It doesn’t include the cost of parking, which can add hundreds or thousands of dollars to the cost of car ownership if you live in a big city. New York Times, September 22, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Cities We shall solve the problem of the city by leaving the city. Henry Ford © 2019 Kwiple.com
Duh obvious A new Commerce Department report says self-driving vehicles are likely to have a greater impact on job prospects of people who drive full-time, like bus, taxi and truck drivers, than on people who don't, like real estate brokers and plumbers reported by Wall Street Journal, August 14, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Allowing – even encouraging – lenders to charge Blacks and Latinos higher interest rates for car loans is change we believe in © 2018 Kwiple.com
Republicans say Protecting drivers from liability for injuring protesters on streets is change we believe in © 2017 Kwiple.com
Robots Well, we're just going to replace them all with robots. Jeff Holden, Uber's chief product officer, responding to concerns expressed about discontent among Uber's drivers © 2017 Kwiple.com
Car culture Analysis from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has shown that pedestrians who are hit by pickups or S.U.V.s are two to three times more likely to die than those who are hit by cars. In fact, the number of pedestrians killed by vehicles rose forty-six per cent between 2010 and 2019. John Seabrook, The New Yorker, January 24, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Car culture As American cars have bulked up,  the number of fatalities for the drivers and  passengers inside these rolling fortresses has fallen by 22 per cent. But the number of pedestrians killed has risen by 57 per cent. John Burn-Murdoch, Financial Times, February 23, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Car culture The F8 is a wellspring of moral delinquency: 0–124 mph in 7 seconds. Now that's social distancing done right. Dan Neil, Wall Street Journal, April 4, 2020, review of Ferrari's new F8 Tributo © 2020 Kwiple.com
Car culture If we dont have barriers, walls – call them what you want – but if we don't have very strong barriers, where people can not any longer drive right across – they have unbelievable vehicles; they make a lot of money. They have the best vehicles you can buy. They have stronger, bigger, and faster vehicles than our police have, and than ICE has, and than Border Patrol has. So they're pretty good at that. Donald Trump on migrants crossing the southern border © 2019 Kwiple.com
Housing In a typical year,  the country builds more three-car garages than one-bedroom apartments. Dante Ramos, The Atlantic, July/August 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Housing More square footage is dedicated to parking each car than to housing each person. Henry Grabar, Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World © 2023 Kwiple.com
Making money the old-fashioned way Manufacturing hubcaps © 2019 Kwiple.com
Resisters say Public trust 24% 27% Trump Gas Station Sushi   Placard, Washington, DC, Women's March 2019, January 19, 2019  © 2019 Kwiple.com
Sleepers at the wheel say And we love it when you build cars – if you're a Japanese firm, we love it – try building your cars in the United States instead of shipping them over. Is that possible to ask? That's not rude.  Is that rude? I don't think so. Donald Trump, Tokyo speech, November 6, 2017, to American and Japanese business leaders © 2017 Kwiple.com
Tech bros say Fuck Chan Peskin Preston Walton Melgar Ronen Safai Chan as a label and motherfucking crew And if you are down with Peskin Preston Walton Melgar Ronen Safai Chan as a crew fuck you too Die slow motherfuckers Garry Tan, Y Combinator CEO, 12:25 AM – Jan 27, 2024, expressing displeasure at progressive members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for raising concerna about driverless cars © 2024 Kwiple.com
Tech bros say Make drivers passengers © 2016 Kwiple.com
Trumpists say The problem is the human heart, it’s not guns, it’s not the weapons. At the end of the day, we have to protect the right of the citizens to protect themselves, and that’s the Second Amendment, and that’s why our party stands so strongly for that. This is not the time to be talking about legislation. … In Europe and in other places, they use vehicles to mow down crowds at parades — where they’ve done that here at the United States. It’s not the weapon, it’s the underlying problem. Mike Johnson, October 27, 2023, a day after a shooter in Lewiston, Maine, killed 18 and wounded 13 in 2023's 565th mass shooting  © 2023 Kwiple.com
What's the use … of buying a Corvette and hiring a chauffeur to drive it? © 2017 Kwiple.com
Wretched excess The bleak, beetle-backed monster parked in the courtyard of the hotel lays claim to being the new fastest, most powerful, most expensive road car ever produced by a global auto maker. Those numbers, should you want to forward them to your accountant in Macau: about 285 mph; 1,500 horsepower; $3 million. Wall Street Journal, April 8–9, 2017, on the Bugatti Chiron, made by Bugatti, part of Germany's VW Group © 2017 Kwiple.com
Wretched excess Home car turntables so you never have to back out of the garage © 2015 Kwiple.com
 
Wretched excess There's an optional £150,000 clock for Bentley's £160,000 Bentayga SUV © 2016 Kwiple.com