On my flight back to the glorious USA I had the pleasure of finding a documentary on planned obsolescence called "The Light Bulb Conspiracy". I thought I would share it with you all, especially in this community, where build quality and longevity are appreciated about the fads of the current market.

Watch the entire thing on Youtube! It's 53 minutes long, so if you do not have time for it now, bookmark/save it for later! It's VERY MUCH worth a watch or two.

The floor is now open for debate!

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[GONE] - 1995 Mercedes E300 Diesel - 130k miles - Smoke Silver (702) over Mushroom leather (265) - Bladder blasting, coast-to-coast work machine.

Saw it before. Very interesting.

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Whoever said there's nothing more expensive than a cheap Mercedes never had a cheap Jaguar.

83 300D Turbo with manual conversion, early W126 vented front rotors and H4 headlights 400,xxx miles
08 Suzuki GSX-R600 M4 Slip-on 22,xxx miles
88 Jaguar XJS V12 94,xxx miles. Work in progress.

I have not watched, but I am sure I get the idea. I like my Apple products. But I realized long ago they never release the best. If they did it would take years to come out with a product that can top it. So they release in increments. First iPad, no camera, sold like hotcakes. Second version had one, so they sold even more. Sometimes this is a good thing. If the iPhone 4S was the first iPhone, it would have gotten horrible reviews for being too difficult to use. So sometimes it makes sense to going against what the market wants and evolve. Sometimes, like with the lightbulb, its complete crap.

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1991 560 SEL / 185k miles
1992 750il / 17k miles - project car

Is that not the story about the color TV, pretty much invented at the same time as the B/W TV?

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1979 Black on Black, 300CD (sold), 1990 Black 300SE, Silver 1989 Volvo 780, 1988 300CE (vanished by the hands of a girlfriend), 1992 300CE (Rescue).