Tag: W123

It’s Not How Far You Fall, It’s the Way You Land

Sometimes a quantum leap is called for, but care is required.

Image: internationalbanker
Image: internationalbanker

Editor’s note: Today’s piece is a revised version of an article first published on DTW in July 2016.

“Evolution: /e-va-loo’ shan/ n  The cumulative change in the genetic composition of an organism over succeeding generations, resulting in a species totally different from remote ancestors.”

What we’re looking at here is a collection of what we now would term E-Class Mercedes generations, from the W120/121 Ponton, up to the 2016 (and about to be superseded) W213 series. But this image is not the point of today’s exercise. What I would like to do instead is to Continue reading “It’s Not How Far You Fall, It’s the Way You Land”

Lecker Aufs Land

Change. Progress. Environment. Old taxis.

(c) Reversehomesickness.com.

Morocco is changing. Having vivid and fond memories from the heyday of CAR magazine in the seventies and eighties where a story headed off towards (or perhaps away from) the Sahara, or following the sinuous roads through the Atlas Mountains; images enticing us with not only the car in question but the souks and markets, faraway towns and remote villages that could’ve been from a thousand years ago, not merely thirty or so. One could almost Continue reading “Lecker Aufs Land”