25 Apr 2017 – Driven To Write

Micropost: Brightwork

This detail didn’t come across in the press photos.

A lot of work went into that. I didn’t photograph the brightwork on the sideglass which is flat and cheap-looking. It doesn’t catch the light. Whoever sanctioned that needs to take shorter lunches.

Chicken Or Egg?

Does the Golf have ten engines because VW believes it leads to increased sales (twice as many as the next most popular car)?

Or does such huge sales volume mean VW can pamper its clientele like no clientele has been pampered before? To answer this I needed to crunch some numbers. Statistical research of the most basic kind is very dull indeed. It does reveal some interesting things in return however. Such work is the reverse of golf, I think, which sport some say is fun to do but which is clearly boring to look at. In that spirit (“ah, look, the tassles are flying”) I decided to get stuck in and see what it takes to be in the top ten, engineswise. There was no point in hand-waving. Some maths had to be involved.

And if you want to find out more about why I would want to Continue reading “Chicken Or Egg?”

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