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  "description": "As a car guy you should get exited about big displacement, huge bonnets, extreme amounts of horsepowers and weird tech that, ironically, makes you feel stuff in your nether regions. ",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-21T05:30:14.000Z",
  "site": "https://nitch.one",
  "tags": [
    "I wasn't wrong",
    "Singer",
    "surprise partners",
    "going on strike",
    "in France",
    "Feels like self sabotage to me"
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  "textContent": "There is something that I have to admit. I'm not very proud of it. It's not that I wasn't wrong. We've been there already. It that there might be something wrong with the car lover in me. I feel like he's trying to get all touchy feely about cars, and he shouldn't be. I mean, as a car guy you should get exited about big displacement, huge bonnets, extreme amounts of horsepowers and weird tech that, ironically, makes you feel stuff in your nether regions.\n\nBut when the Brabus Bodo came out, I just couldn't get hyped. Cool car, nice engine, looks fun to drive. That's it. Then the Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupé showed it's rear end and, I had to revive the car guy in me. Upon seeing that horrendous blob of yellow speedsnot, he suffered cardiac arrest and had to suffer some electric shocks get stuff beating again. He barely pulled through.\n\nAnd then Singer came round with an engine. No car around it, just a flat six they developed over decades with Cosworth. Weirdly, my nether regions started to tingle slightly. The fading heartbeat from my inner car guy got louder and stronger. Strange, because I don't like Porsches and I don't like flat sixes.\n\nMercedes-AMG __-hurk-__ GT 4-Door __-hurk-__ Coupé __.__ Image: Mercedes-AMG\n\nIt took me a while to pinpoint the issue, but I found it. Let's start with the AMG, because that's the worst offender of all. You see, dear reader, the thing is a mechanical and technological marvel. It has all the cool new features you'll probably eventually will see trickle down to not so special EV's. It even fakes the sound of the iconic AMG V8 and makes the driver seat vibrate in accordance to the revs of the fake engine. Amazing. But there is no soul in there. It's the epitome of 'fake it till you make it' combined with strict German engineering. It's also extremely ugly and very much made for the Chinese market, although Mercedes probably will keep denying that one.\n\nThen the Brabus Bodo. A very cool looking car. Huge bonnet, huge horsepowers from a huge engine. What's not to like? Well, it's the fact it's based on a better car: the Aston Martin Vanquish which has been stripped of everything that made it make my nether regions tingle. It's a big, black piece of carbon fibre ruined by lack of imagination. It also doesn't exude any pride and joy from the people that have built the car. It looks like it's been slapped together by some very unmotivated line workers that have been going of some very simple schematics.\n\nAnd then Singer to tie it all together with a Porsche flat six I should hate outright, but somehow don't. Why? Because I can only admire what Singer and Cosworth have done here. No cutting corners to make everything work flawlessly (at least, I assume they take care in inner workings too) and to go further and take the time to make it aesthetically perfect too. Just looking at pictures and video's of the flawless connections between the exhaust ports of the engine and the actual titanium exhaust made the tingling go haywire.\n\nCan't look away, can you? Image: Singer\n\nI don't know, but I feel like I increasingly miss the fact that cars give the idea people have actually put some effort into it. Somehow it new cars that should be exceptional in more ways than one, feel like parts slapped together and tuned to be something desirable.\n\nAnd then you see an old restomod. A car that has lived a live before this second one. It's been lovingly taken apart, cleaned and put back together with hand made parts to make it perform and look better than it has ever done. And those parts have been crafted by skilled people with endless amounts of passion for their craft. You know, the kind of people start telling you about every bend in the titanium exhaust they created and how every little seam has been filed down to make sure flow is optimal, even though you only asked why they chose titanium.\n\nI love talking to those people. They ignite something in me. A flame that sometimes needs a bit of fuel to glow just that bit brighter to give you just that bit of energy you need to feel a bit more alive. I think some cars can channel that energy and some don't. I'd like there to be more of them, but they seem to be a dying breed. To quote every motoring journalist from the last decade that was driving some car with a big V8 \"this might be the last of the Mohicans\".\n\nOr it might just be me. I guess it is. The internet (and my colleagues) have been going mad about the Bobo. No, that's not it. Bono? No, that's a crappy singer. Bodo? Yes, that's it. A bit less about the AMG GT, but just look at it. Or don't, please don't.\n\nI'm just projecting my wishes for the car industry again. Don't mind me.\n\n## In other news:\n\nIn the category 'I'm glad I don't live in the US', we today find a new collaboration between two surprise partners: Stellantis and JLR. Nope, didn't see that one coming, and don't see it working either. Thankfully they'll only work together to find a way to serve the US car market better with co-developed cars. Which probably means the country of the Orange man will get some monstrously unreliable cars in the future. I mean, JLR hasn't been the shining example of making durable engines that don't eat themselves, and I probably don't even need to start listing the thousands of examples Stellantis has put out over the last few decades. Maybe we should file this collaboration under 'what could go wrong' too.\n\nThe best JLR-product out there: the Defender Octa. Image: Land Rover\n\nIf Lance Stroll seems unusually stressed out during media interviews this weekend in Canada, I might now the issue. Montreal sex workers are going on strike during the race weekend. They demand full rights, which they obviously should get. The fact that they chose the highest paying weekend of the year to not sell entrance to the private parties, is either a sign of how dire the situation in Canada is, or has something to do with the smelliness of F1-nerds.\n\nVOYAH! is becoming a European brand thanks to Stellantis, who has agreed to built cars from the Chinese car manufacturer Dongfeng in France. Feels like self sabotage to me, but it's the French we're talking about. They kind of have a thing for that. I'm looking forward to see the yellow jackets again.",
  "title": "Is it weird that these two cool cars don't make my nether region tingle?",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-21T05:30:14.685Z"
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