This landing page battle has me wondering, what are most technical people using to build landing pages?
I've been building mine using React in the same way I build the rest of my sites, but it seems like it might be overkill since it's all about design without any real functionality. What are most real web developers using?
I've been thinking of making a "sentiment database" for car brands where users share their personal, subjective view of a car make/model. I'm sure something like this probably already exists.
According to [1] Jeep is the 24th-best-selling car brand in Europe.
Their sales of 11.4k cars in October put them just between Mazda (12.3k cars) and Porsche (10.3k cars) with roughly 1% market share.
But they are at least competing in the market - some brands like Chevy, Chrysler and Subaru don't even make the top 25.
Of course many of these brands are ultimately owned by the same multinationals. Stellantis-owned Jeep, Dodge and Ram brands aren't doing well in Europe, but their Opel, Peugeot, Citroën, Vauxhall, Alfa Romeo and Fiat brands are selling just fine.
This shows the durability of brands despite the buyouts of the last few decades that have collapsed them all into the same car company. I really do not like this trend, I think it's been bad for innovation and consumers. Real innovation has had to come from outside - from China, such as startup BYD ("build your dream", previously Xi'an Qinchuan Automobile Co).
> Opel, Peugeot, Citroën, Vauxhall, Alfa Romeo and Fiat
All of those had long separate histories before Stellantis. Although when I checked Vauxhall/Opel (basically the same cars except Vauxhall is the UK branding) have been GM subsidiaries since the 1920s!
PSA Peugeot Citroën merger was in 1976.
Daimler-Benz + Chrysler merger was in 1998.
Fiat Chrysler merger was in 2014.
Stellatis was the merger of PSA Peugeot Citroën and Fiat Chrysler in 2021.
But if Peugeot sold 61k cars in Europe, Opel/Vauxhall 31k, Citroen 23k and Fiat 18k the group overall is much better placed in the EU than Jeep's sales of 11.4k would imply.
My immediate response was “they still make those?!”, but they actually still seem to be on sale here! Not sure I’ve seen one in the last decade or so; make of that what you will.
Beautiful design. Curious since you mention the issues with plastic, what's the part that you couldn't avoid plastic for the trefolo (given you mention it's 0.01% plastic)?
About the only kind of fully plastic-free cable I know of (other then historical examples) is bare MICC aka "pyro", which are copper tube sheaths filled with magnesium oxide powder and the wires in the middle. It's used especially in fireproof installations.
A huge pain to install as it's so stiff and needs special tools and fittings to keep it from absorbing water from the air. It has a large bend radius, and it only good for fixed installation as it will crack open if you bend it a few times. And it's nearly £1000 for 100m. So it's not very popular these days.
Plastic really is an annoyingly wonderous category of material when you consider the flexibility, insulation, mechanical, thermal and chemical resistance it can have (and the price)!
Electric cables are made from insulation (plastic) and wires (metal). Wires use metal, insulation typically does not, so it's NOT easy to make a whole cable out of metal.
Appreciate you sending your trip for reference. We've seen some funkiness like this happen at times which we're looking into at the moment. This is a particularly weird one.
I'm jealous of your plans for a bicycle tour near Tarvisio, sounds like it'll be an epic trip!
