Fentimans is good, too.

AG Barr also make Tizer, DnB, and a range of standard sodas (cola, lemonade, cream soda, etc.).

All your soft drink needs well catered for.

Scots are Brits, my Gaulish friend. It’s the English whom you have a shared affinity for pissing off.

VW says the production version of the ID. EVERY1 will be the company’s first vehicle to feature a new “powerful” software architecture that promises over-the-air updates. (Software has proven to be a bit of a pain for VW, with bugs and infrequent updates plaguing its ID family of vehicles for years.)

That’s a good tip, although around my way it’s standard to need to visit a local library at least once in order to finalise sign-up (in the UK it’s standard to need to show photo ID when signing up, and libraries won’t generally bother setting up a way to do that remotely).

I know one person who happily collects library memberships every time they’re in a new area with a bit of time on their hands though. They’ve got a very impressive wallet-full of library cards!

HMD have the licence for phones, StreamView have the licence for TV devices. They’re different, unrelated companies, other than the branding.

There are a couple of major Chinese companies with European marques missing.

Chery, which is sold under the DR brand in Italy and Omoda/Jaecoo elsewhere in Europe.

SAIC, which sells under the MG brand in Europe.

You may be interested to know that while they’re Nokia branded, the brand is just being used under licence. The actual manufacturer is StreamView, from Austria.

This company notably powers the Libby app for borrowing books.

The main competitor for Libby is BorrowBox, which is owned by an Australian company. Not that you get to choose as a user; it’s up to your local library which app they decide to use.

Yes, it is!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_constellation

Brand ownership can get super weird.

Heinz is an American company. Daddies, which is a very British brand, is now owned by Heinz too, so is also American.

On the other hand Helmann’s (of both mayo and ketchup providence) is an American brand which is now owned by Unilever…so technically British.

there’s also GNSS which is mostly used in Europe and Scandinavia

GNSS is the generic term that covers all satellite navigation systems (GPS included).

Galileo is the EU/ESA system you’re thinking of.

GLONASS (Russian) and BeiDou (Chinese) are the other two major constellations with global coverage. The only other full system I know of is NavIC, which is Indian and has only regional coverage.

Most devices actually connect to all of them. I’ve just checked my phone, and it’s connected to all of GPS, Galileo, GLONASS and BeiDou. People just say “GPS” because it’s catchier than “GNSS”.

They’re not going to create entirely new ones just for this vehicle.

If you read the article (I know, controversial) you’ll see that that’s exactly what they’re suggesting they’re doing, yes.

Personally I wouldn’t hold my breath that it’ll be better, but it is going to be completely different to their current software stack.

I like OSMAnd, and want to love it, but its public transport route finding is still very flakey for me, irritatingly.

Nor is Nestle.

Concept cars are, by definition, not actually finished. Nobody will be able to buy the car that was being shown at the car show. The car that will be on sale in 2-3 years will be a thematically similar but fundamentally different creature.

Things like the onboard computer software/hardware/data sharing model won’t be defined yet. VW’s first party servicing costs or the price of replacement brake pads are not defined yet. It’ll be a job for a future car journalist to report on all those things once it’s actually defined.

It’s a concept car; none of those things are actually known or knowable yet.

That’s one popular reinterpretation, yes. But there’s another layer of revisionist reinterpretation beyond that which also has some standing, and that’s that Germany was also in no state to fight an actual war in 1938, and that they could have been slapped down in Czechoslovakia by a coalition of Britain, France and Poland even in the complete state that they were in if they’d put their will to it.

By delaying for Britain to rearm, they also delayed long enough for Germany to fully rearm too.

It’ll be nice have a bit more competition in the A segment EV market. Fiat having the run of it is all very well and nice, but it was starting to look like everyone was abandoning city cars entirely.

You can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.

Assuming I only buy things on Amazon that I actually need, and assuming by not buying them on Amazon I’m buying them somewhere else, it’s a zero sum game. My money’s going to someone. If I buy from a local seller, and that means that a small seller on Amazon loses out, then that’s just swings and roundabouts. Someone’s still quids in.