While Toyota was busy celebrating its status as the world’s largest car company after selling 9.5 million cars in 2020, Hot Wheels – the maker of the smaller versions that litter living rooms around the
Sideswipe: January 5: The largest auto manufacturer is not Toyota
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Miles of style.
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The annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest calls for entrants to “compose opening sentences to the worst of all possible novels”. This was a dishonourable mention: “Tony Angel walked Fiona back to the car and handed her the leash, if only he hadn’t thrown the ball so hard; it had marred an otherwise perfect first date on the White Cliffs of Dover.” (Lizzie Nelson, Wheaton, IL)
Confessions
“I have OCD. I think I control it quite well but my missus says I’m getting worse. She doesn’t know this but recently I’ve started washing the dirty road signs around town. The before-and-after photographs I take are ridiculously satisfying for me.”