This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode and derived from its transcript. I listen to The Motor Trend Podcast on EVs, The InEVitable. See what they did there with the “EV”? But there’s a line they repeat often that’s been sitting wrong with me for a while: hybrids are the “worst
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This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode, and derived from its transcript. If you’ve followed the path I’ve taken through photography, cars, and watches, you probably already know I shoot a fair amount of film. Instagram gives it away. And yes, I’m aware it’s a strange hobby to double down on
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This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode, and derived from its transcript. Last episode was Volkswagen. This one is Zodiac. Different industries, different scale of disaster, but the same underlying exercise: pull apart the timeline, listen to what leadership actually said versus what the analysts and the enthusiast community said after
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This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode, and derived from its transcript. I keep coming back to Volkswagen (VW). Not because I want to, but because I can’t help it. I love the brand, and that’s exactly why watching it during the last decade has been so frustrating. So here we
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This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode. This is the second half of a topic discussed on the last post. The first half was about manufacturers who built things for other brands and eventually decided to build their own. This half is different. This is about brands that actually died, but
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This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode. This topic made sense for a single podcast episode but not for a single website article. This is one half of it: manufacturers who spent decades building things for somebody else’s name, then decided they wanted their name on the dial, the hood, or
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This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode. Ferrari’s Luce has been the topic of the car enthusiast community for weeks, and most of that conversation has stopped at “it’s ugly.” That reaction is fair enough, but it’s not the interesting part. The interesting part is what Ferrari is actually doing with
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This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode. Two headlines landed in the same news cycle this month, and on the surface they have nothing to do with each other. Porsche said it’s cutting production to protect margins. Leica is reportedly in talks to be acquired by a Chinese firm. One story
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This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode. I picked three brands for this one: Rolex, Omega, and Ming. Not because they’re my favorites, not because they’re more interesting than anyone else out there, they just happened to be the three that popped into my head when I started thinking about the
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This post is a companion to the latest 3DLANES podcast episode. This was supposed to be a Collective Horology weekend. I had the trip planned with my wife, hotel booked and everything, and Sunday morning was going to be Morning Motors, the Cars and Coffee that Driving While Awesome puts together. Instead I spent the
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