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For what?

For sheer utility I think Toyota HiAce 4wd long version. (Five seats) No need to pack for a trip. Just aim at the hatch. Five guys with bikes and gear? No problem. Large stroller? Just lift it in.

For family use: Mercedes V-class. The high end version (of an already high end car) with seats that can be turned, fridge, leather interior.

Family use and driving pleasure. Most likely a Mercedes AMG estate or BMW M sport tourif estate.

For the sheer pleasure of tinkering and the uselessness of it. El Camino

For just driving. Tough pick. But probably some GT car from Aston Martin, Ferrari, or similar manufacturer.

For track. A Lamborghini super car I can't drive and would spin out in first corner

Welcome to "gun people who hate gun people"

Well Switzerland is hardly doing it to appease NATO "allies". Yeah I know they are sort of allied adjacent.

I am not saying that the countries are not doing these things. But are they doing it to curry favor with TACO Trump?

Game of Thrones. To much a period drama.

The fuck we are. This sounds like psyop

I have mixed experience with Electrolux. Tho' it has excelent representation in Norway. V-Zug looks really interesting, but only sold in Switzerland and Germany... Perhaps Denmark.

Got a "entry point" Miele about 9 years ago. Same experience as you. If they have started compromising on quality I don't know where to go.. Asko is now Gorenje and produced in China, and have not pulled out of Russia.

Thats a great feeling. I did extremely low level tech support for other students while at uni. in 2003 (Think issuing user names, filling copy paper, sorting out storage space allocation on the shared drives.) Small part time job that paid for boze. A girl came in with a 3.5" floppy disk on the verge of tears and said she couldn't get the file on it. It was her master thesis and the only place she had stored it. We still had floppy disk drives and I slitted it in and used a dos shell to acess a: but nothing. No disk in drive. I took the floppy out and noticed that the metal protection of the actuall disk (that soft plastic circle) didn't slide properly. To me it looked like the spring was just to worn and had no tension. Took it off and could then access the files on it. Error was that the spring wasn't able to slide the metal protector away when inserted into the reader.

Copied the files to her "home" area, sent a copy by email and gave her a new floppy with the files and told her about the importance of back ups.

The sheer look of relief and gratitude was priceless.

I was refering to the "quad rotor type" I dont follow the war so close that I watch much of the combat footage, but I get the impression that they are extensively used for taking out single targets like the Russian vehicle in OPs post.

I agree that againsr a high flying missile drone what I suggested would be useless.

To me it seems like WW2 style close support anti-air is idealy suited for slow flying smaller drones. Given the low altitude, size and no armor I would think the way to go was to use even smaller calibres to increase the "bullet density". Chain fed linked 5.56 machine guns in an array perhaps?

Major shareholders seems to be in it for the long term, but it seems to me that all "venerable" brands are shit these days. So you can either buy mostly shit, or artisinal small scale that cost a fortune. Any new startups can never get off the ground as they can't get shelf space in any major store.

Honorable mentions are Miele, Beretta shotguns and who else?

Edit: just remembered that Beretta has a clothing line that is probably just braned crap

Fiskars product range is weird. Kitchen utensils, gardening tools and craft equipment. Sort of made sense when all contain a blade of some sort. But a garden rake? (That is pretty decent.) Guess now that much of it is just rebranding.