Weekend Watches December 13 2024 - The History Edition
Hasn't this week just blown by? For your weekend pleasure, we have the story of a storied French car maker, a less-storied but fascinating carmaker, an even more obscure story of a forgotten car company, I break the rules of this edition with a video I just really enjoyed and then the story of Stellantis' recent slide in the US.
Big Car brings us a settle-in-with-the-popcorn story of Citroën. You don't need more context from me on that brand.
The very thorough Ruairidh McVeigh has the story of NSU, a German car company and that other company that ran a fully-sick rotor under the bonnet. There's one of these under a tarp under a carport near me and it's been sad to watch it decay, but anyway, here's the story.
Automobolistic has the story of the brand that went global – at least for awareness – via the magic of Gran Turismo. TommyKaira was a kind of coachbuilder on steroids who wanted to do their own car...and...well...
Not a month can go by where I don't find a video with my favourite (owned) car, the BMW E60 M5 with that glorious V10. The excellent Top Dead Center [sic] look at an M5 and a C63 for around the same price as the UK's cheapest car, a Dacia Sandero.
Related: new cars are outrageously expensive in the UK. Nearly $27k for a very basic hatchback is tough even by our rising price standards.
And finally, trade union-backed More Perfect Union has the story on the slide of Jeep under the Stellantis umbrella. Hilariously, since this video went live, company CEO Carlos Tavares has been shown the door.
And that's Weekend Watches for the week. We're almost at Christmas, everyone, just another full week and we can all hopefully have a week off and I'm hoping to knock out a bunch of reviews for you.
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