essen motor show

this is the place to be, at least for the next few days: > click <. i've never been there and really would like to see this fair, but wether i can go and have a look is still uncertain. we'll see...

if you click this link, beware - the instant the page is building up, it starts bawling its advertising slogans (in german) very loudly, it's a real nuisance. the bawling can't be cut off unless you push the "off"-button of your speakers. well... just ignore it.

solace

...no, no, no - i'm not talking about that bond movie. i didn't watch it either. since craig is to impersonate the "gentleman spy", i prefer to stop watching "james bonds" although i grew up with these movies. well, craig... he surely may be a good actor, but in my eyes he looks like a left-over KGB butcher who hasn't been "removed" as the cold war was over, if you understand what i mean. connery and moore perfectly resembled this "gentleman" type of agent, the idol i looked up to as a kid - bond was educated, refined, with good manners and the ability to move within every kind of society. even remington steele, ahm, pierce brosnan fit into this image. but craig...
well, let's leave it as it is. the solace i'm talking of is of another kind. in the meantime, it has become so bitterly cold and wet in germany that nobody, unless he's a hopeless case or a witless brute, would make his corvette leave the warmth and cosyness of its garage.
that fact that all the others keep their vettes indoors, too, really doesn't make me feel better, but at least it provides a little bit of solace. and the weather forecast for the next days isn't that good.
i said, "a little bit", folks.
no quantum.

p.s. which spy would drive a corvette? surely not bond. but maybe jerry cotten ;-)

vette-tv

DSF (german sports tv) will show a report on the z06 - but beware, it's nothing new, they're just repeating an "old" programme. nevertheless, it is worth watching, since the outcome of this assessment is more than positive - quite unusual for german car testers who normally seem to be biased towards our local brands (foreign brands rarely got top marks in whatever kinds of tests perfomed, except maybe ferrari). especially us cars were seen as "low quality" over the last years, and corvettes were even regarded as "procurer's" cars. maybe the c6 / z06 model series can brush up this image, since people come to realize that a corvette is a worthy opponent to all fancy european sports car brands...

date of broadcasting: wednesday 26th, 20.15 h local time

the dark season

...again, it's the time of the year when lots of vette drivers simply go mad without their cars.
aaaargh - i could cry!!!

so i'm left with no other option than counting days...