{"id":465,"date":"2005-03-02T22:37:40","date_gmt":"2005-03-02T13:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/?p=465"},"modified":"2009-02-02T22:43:16","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T13:43:16","slug":"bonjour-from-geneva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/?p=465","title":{"rendered":"Bonjour from Geneva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>What a great city. It&#8217;s like Japan; safe, clean, kind people. It&#8217;s also like Europe; quaint, cultured and elegant.<\/p>\n<p>I like it.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately though, we leave the hotel in the early morning before any shops are open. We finish late when only bars are open. So from where I am standing, it&#8217;s a pretty dead city. I am sure it must be bustling during the day.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I took a few pictures today with my new phone. I am surprised at how good the quality is. Anyway, take a look for yourself. The pictures are of one of the more peculiar cars on exhibit today. The Toyota &#8220;Aygo&#8221;. A car that Toyota are aggressively pushing to &#8220;young urban hipsters&#8221;. Their bean-counters must have calculated that this was where the money is. Anyway, good luck to them. The car below is (of course) a concept. But it&#8217;s interesting to see that Toyota think that putting a DJ booth into a car makes it hip. But first, a picture of the inside of the motor show:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_466\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-466\" class=\"size-full wp-image-466\" title=\"geneva-autosalon\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/geneva-autosalon.jpg\" alt=\"The Geneva Motorshow\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/geneva-autosalon.jpg 450w, https:\/\/lotusball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/geneva-autosalon-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-466\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Geneva Motorshow<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And here is the Toyota Aygo;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_467\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-467\" class=\"size-full wp-image-467\" title=\"aygo-extended\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/aygo-extended.jpg\" alt=\"The extendible Aygo\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/aygo-extended.jpg 450w, https:\/\/lotusball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/aygo-extended-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-467\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The extendible Aygo<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_468\" style=\"width: 263px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-468\" class=\"size-full wp-image-468\" title=\"aygo-interior\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/aygo-interior.jpg\" alt=\"Not much room for humans\" width=\"253\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/aygo-interior.jpg 253w, https:\/\/lotusball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/aygo-interior-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-468\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Not much room for humans<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_469\" style=\"width: 263px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-469\" class=\"size-full wp-image-469\" title=\"dj-aygo\" src=\"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/dj-aygo.jpg\" alt=\"Always on standby for a party\" width=\"253\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/dj-aygo.jpg 253w, https:\/\/lotusball.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/dj-aygo-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-469\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Always on standby for a party<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am in Geneva. What a great city. It&#8217;s like Japan; safe, clean, kind people. It&#8217;s also like Europe; quaint, cultured and elegant. I like it. Unfortunately though, we leave the hotel in the early morning before any shops are open. We finish late when only bars are open. So from where I am standing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}