Category: Sofia

EV Show in Sofia

~ Veselin ~ 2 Comments

I accidentally visited an EV car show in Sofia. Hundreds of Chinese cars lined up on the square, ready to be tested and purchased. Pretty cars, cheap cars, big cars, very big cars. I was impressed by the amount of marketing money invested to show all these cars.

Here are the vehicles that won my attention:

A 50-year-old trolleybus and a retro-sci-fi single-seater EV sports car that looked as if it was built in someone’s basement to be a bat mobile.

The other cars kind of explained a lot to me why people still drive their 20-year-old petrol cars.

Oh, and of course, here are some electric scooters.

Have a nice day

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I got myself into an industrial zone today while trying to get a medical document for a relative. What industrial zones have is dogs, and one dog barked me. So I hope that whoever reads this post has a better day than me.

Here’s a prince or a princess, wearing a star-shaped necklace. She was very vocal.

Ferrari Testarossa

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Back in the 80s, all the cars around were eastern block Lada, Trabant, Moskvich, Zaz, Gaz and such. People waited for 15 to get a Lada and then drove it like if it was a BMW. But the rotten capitalism had already started to penetrate the iron curtain and we had access to Turbo bubblegums, which came with tiny collectable images of fancy cars.

Image 51 was Ferrari Testarossa, the most wanted Turbo bubblegum car. It was rarer than the rest, and had the highest max speed for any car under number 120, if I remember correctly. 40-ish years later, I finally had the chance to see it in person.

I randomly visited a car show for vintage cars. Had no clue it’s a car show, it looked like a protest from a distance. Even when I got close to it, it still looked like a protest because I approached the from the eastern side, dedicated to old soviet cars. It turned out to be a show, had some really nice cars, many people, kids, and good mood.

Sharing a few more cars that got my attention. Fiat 500, Peugeot 404, Citroen DS, and a modernized 1930s Slate President Studebaker.

The show had cars I didn’t realize now count as vintage, like mid 1990s BMW and VW. I even spotted a nearly 30-year-old Golf 4.

Void

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I got complaints that I don’t share enough black cat photos on my blog and prioritize tabby fluffs. So, while September 1st would normally be the reading summary for August post, here’s a void, and we’ll leave the reading summary for tomorrow. I read too many books last month and writing that summary post will take me a bit more time.