The Phaeton was a commercial flop when it was briefly sold in the US market in the early part of the last decade, but it has done better in other markets, particularly China.

The plant gets its name from the panes of glass that comprise the bulk of  its exterior and interior walls flooding the assembly line with plenty of natural light. In areas where artificial lighting supplements the sun's rays, the lights are pointed up and reflected off the ceiling for nice diffuse illumination.

The moving line itself and areas adjacent to it are all hardwood. Phaeton customers can visit the factory before the car is built and see samples of all the leather, wood, fabric and paints and select their own custom combinations. Next to the entrance is a smaller version of the parking tower for newly built cars awaiting customer delivery similar to the versions at the headquarters in Wolfsburg. 

The appearance of the facility is so unlike other factories that it regularly plays host to local cultural events including concerts in the lobby area. 

Can you imagine walking down a gang-plank 1,200 feet above the streets of Manhattan in a wind?

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Throwback Thursday – Car owner Bud Moore cleans the windshield on  Parnelli Jones No. 16 Trans Am Boss 302

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Mustang Alley at the Woodward Dream Cruise is back again for 2013. Information on how to register is here. 

Nelson factors in other elements such as the mandatory $600 per year service plan to come up with a much more realistic cost.

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Chesterton's Definition of Progressives and Conservatives

"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected."

– from Illustrated London News, 1924-04-19, per Wikipedia

The Tesla Model S is a fine car and it has much to recommend it. However, +Elon Musk should not be resorting to these kinds of shenanigans to sell cars. To claim that the time you spend filling your car with gas is worth $100/month is a bad joke. What about the time you have to spend looking for a charge station if you're getting low on electrons. 

Then there is the $227 you subtract if you are using the car for business. If you are using any other car for business, you could make the same claim so this one is a wash and if it's just a personal car, you can forget it anyway. 

You're going to pay $1,100/month to finance a  Model S and that's that. 

Users of +Android apps often miss out on some of the coolest capabilities of the system because developers are coding apps to work like the more limited iOS.

This is no doubt part of the reason why iOS hasn't advanced as much over its history as Android. Instead of treating iOS as the golden standard, developers should be using all the capabilities of the system they are working on and thus putting pressure on other platforms to improve. Don't just make the apps the same on all platforms. 

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Today marks the 45th Anniversary of the Mustang Cobra Jet program. Thanks to all the racers that have made this unique production based Mustang a legend in drag racing history.