How labor is treated in Scandinavia (Saab video)

Via Auto Neurotic.

How enlightened.

Space shuttle over LA

Via Reddit.

Charlie

Tomorrow's unity rally in Paris will be wonderful. It will be interesting to see which world leaders will show up. Dozens will be there, including Israel's Bennett and Liberman. How will be the Arab/Muslim world react to their presence?

Renault Avantime short doc

Here is another Matra project. Think of it as an Espace for empty nesters.

Here is an ad for the Avantime, which only sold 8,000 units.

Renault Espace documentary

All the footage yesterday from the hostage situations and geared up cops has me thinking about the Renault Espace. This excellent video describes the monospace's creation and evolution. I had no idea that Matra had such a critical role in the van.

Exile Destinations, Part 16

(Preface for new readers: I look at leaders who fled their countries from 1975 to the present, ten countries at a time. As you can see, France and the U.K. are popular places for deposed leaders.)

151. Sierra Leone— Guinea, U.K., Guinea

152. Singapore— 0

153. Slovakia— 0

154. Slovenia— 0

155. Solomon Islands— 0

156. Somalia— Nigeria, Yemen

157. South Africa— 0

158. South Sudan— 0

159. Spain— 0

160. Sri Lanka— 0

Tally thus far:

7x = France

5x = U.K.

4x = Brazil, U.S.

3x = Nigeria, Panama, U.S.S.R./Russia

2x = Guinea, Ivory Coast, Morocco, Portugal, Senegal, South Africa, Venezuela

1x = Australia, Austria, Belarus, Benin, Costa Rica, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Guatemala, Italy, Japan, Libya, Mexico, Netherlands, Paraguay, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Somalia, Spain, Switzerland, Togo, Tunisia, UAE, Uganda, Uruguay, Yemen, unknown, unknown, unknown

Tesla Model X photos

From Rchen, who took them at CES.

Tesla #ModelX. There's no way this thing will fit under our garage ceiling.

A photo posted by Rich Chen (@rchen) on Jan 8, 2015 at 6:39pm PST

Charlie Hebdo

F these asshole brothers. If I bump into them, I'm going to pull a 1/43 Citroen XM out of my shopping bag and throw it forcefully at their face. And then I'm going to kick them in the balls.

New York Times just made up a Central Asian country

To our Central Asian readers, this is embarrassing.

Original article.

Rennsport Reunion IV

I spent some time with a Porsche nut yesterday. He told me about the Reunion in 2011 and that it will be at Laguna Seca again in October 2015. He said it's a must-go.