– This is exactly what VW needed: The brand is launching not a new advertising strategy for the U.S. or a low-cost car for global markets, but a new font. And it won’t only be featured in the brand’s stationery and brochures, it will be found on every new VW’s dashboard, center stack, and infotainment system, as well. – – For font nerds, the previous typeface was called VW Utopia, and
Roy Lichtenstein: 1977 BMW 320i – In 1975, American helicopters left Saigon. The Ramones released their first album. And BMW racer Hervé Poulain asked his pal Alexander Calder to throw a dab of paint on his Batmobile. The resultant 3.0 CSL—resplendent in red, yellow, and blue—didn’t finish the race, ultimately placing 44th. Few beyond hardcore racing fans remember the Mirage GR8 that ultimately won the race, but the Calder BMW
Roy Lichtenstein: 1977 BMW 320i – In 1975, American helicopters left Saigon. The Ramones released their first album. And BMW racer Hervé Poulain asked his pal Alexander Calder to throw a dab of paint on his Batmobile. The resultant 3.0 CSL—resplendent in red, yellow, and blue—didn’t finish the race, ultimately placing 44th. Few beyond hardcore racing fans remember the Mirage GR8 that ultimately won the race, but the Calder BMW
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– You meet people on the Mille Miglia, amid the entrants chowing down on seconds of fennel pesto pasta, the children in tiny little villages begging for burnouts, and pretty underwear models like David Gandy preening in million-dollar roadsters. Jaguar chief designer Ian Callum, part of Jaguar’s nine-car factory heritage team, is not an English underwear model. He’s a Scot whose pen strokes—the F-type, XJ, and all modern Jags since
– You meet people on the Mille Miglia, amid the entrants chowing down on seconds of fennel pesto pasta, the children in tiny little villages begging for burnouts, and pretty underwear models like David Gandy preening in million-dollar roadsters. Jaguar chief designer Ian Callum, part of Jaguar’s nine-car factory heritage team, is not an English underwear model. He’s a Scot whose pen strokes—the F-type, XJ, and all modern Jags since
By Mohammed Ghobari CAIRO (Reuters) – Saudi-led air strikes killed at least 80 people near Yemen’s border with Saudi Arabia and in the capital Sanaa on Wednesday, residents said, the deadliest day of bombing in over two months of war in Yemen. Iranian-backed Houthi rebels seized Sanaa last September and then thrust into central and south Yemen. Seeing the Houthi advance as a bridgehead for Iranian influence in the region,