#Volkswagen California Concept

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Volkswagen California Concept, 2023. A prototype for a new generation VW camper van based on the long version of the Multivan. For the first time, the California is equipped with a sliding door on the kitchen side as well allowing extended use of the space around the vehicle. Using VW's MQB technical platform enables a plug-in hybrid drivetrain with Lithium-ion batteries providing an almost completely autonomous 12V power supply.The concept is described as near-production with sales dues to start next year

[marcel17101980]

Volkswagen California Concept - tego jeszcze nie było

[daily-revs]

Set your spirit free with the 2023 Volkswagen California Concept. Our image gallery is your gateway to explore every aspect of this versatile vehicle, from its adventure-ready exteriors to its cozy interiors, intricate design sketches, pricing details, and a wealth of other information. Get ready to discover the perfect travel companion!

[ratnakarshukla4696]

Volkswagen's T7 California concept is a house on four wheels

http://dlvr.it/SvDrL1

[foodandbeverages]

USA Food Service Industry Informative Data: Trends, Challenges & Drivers 2023 to 2033

By 2033, it is anticipated that the USA food service industry would be worth US$ 1995.0 billion. By 2023, it is projected to reach a valuation of around US$ 985.5 billion.

The market is anticipated to increase significantly between 2023 and 2033, with a CAGR of 7.3%.

About 26.3% of all food expenses in 1970 were spent on eating out. That proportion had increased to 43% by 2012.

Demand for food service in the USA is anticipated to be driven by increasing number of two-earner households. High earnings, small-sized families, ease of accessibility, and availability of affordable meal options are also key factors that would influence expansion.

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Rising spending on advertising and promotions by the nation's top food service businesses will also increase demand.

During the pandemic in 2020, a number of restaurants in the country were forced to close or operate at a reduced capacity. It happened as a result of supply-chain disruption brought on by orders to stay at home, company closures, and social distance regulations.

These factors might have influenced how customers bought food, favoring meals prepared at home over food consumed away from the house.

Growth is also being aided by millennials' conscious avoidance of eating out. This can be attributed to their perceived risk of contracting a virus and the advent of online grocery shopping.

According to the USA Department of Agriculture, food purchases made away from home made up 55% of all food expenditures in 2021. This indicated a return to pre-pandemic levels.

Modern consumers are increasingly choosing not to eat on the go due to their busy schedules. During the projected period, it is anticipated that a number of key market trends, including rising popularity of food trucks, would favorably affect the food truck industry.

The USA is becoming more accepting of vegetarianism. American consumers are increasingly following this eating pattern, which is boosting demand for food services.

Expanding popularity of eating out has also contributed to expansion of the restaurant and food service industries.

Key Takeaways from USA Food Service Industry Report

The USA food service market is expected to     showcase growth at 7.3%     CAGR between 2023 and 2033.

The USA catering service industry is     anticipated to flourish from US$     76.7 billion in 2023 to US$     138.2 billion by 2033.

The USA food service industry is set to     rise at a CAGR of 7.3%     from 2023 to 2033.

The USA food service industry exhibited a     surge of 6.7% from     January to June 2022.

The USA catering service industry is     expected to elevate at a CAGR of 6.1%     from 2023 to 2033.

 “Rising food service digitalization is one of the key forces driving the business since clients find it simple to make bookings and payments online. Developing systems for online payments, takeaway and delivery services would also provide significant opportunities to players in this market.” – Says a lead analyst.

Competitive Landscape: USA Food Service Industry

In the past, product portfolios were less globalized. However, as time has gone on and customer appetite has increased, significant businesses are putting more of an emphasis on the development of new services.

Uber Eats, Zipline, UPS, Matternet, Wing, Flytrex, Zing, Amazon, Wingcopter, Elroy Air, Joby Aviation, Volkswagen, and Wisk Aero are just a few businesses that are beginning to expand their service offerings and market reach.

For instance,

In April 2023, At its location in La Mirada,     California, Yoshiharu Global, a USA-based restaurant operator, planned to     introduce its brand-new Yoshiharu Ramen & Izakaya concept. The     operator, who is well-known for serving Japanese ramen, soft-launched the     new idea on April 7 and will hold a formal opening on April 14, 2023.

Its capacity to keep up with contemporary restaurant trends would be demonstrated by the introduction of an unusual idea at the La Mirada site. It would also enable the restaurant to provide really authentic Japanese eating experiences that are tailored to the changing tastes of its clients.

Get Valuable Insights on USA Food Service Industry

Future Market Insights (FMI), in its new offering, provides an unbiased analysis of the USA food service industry presenting historical demand data (2018 to 2022) and forecast statistics for the period from (2023 to 2033). The study divulges compelling insights on the demand for USA food services based on restaurant & food service industry (service type, delivery method), catering service industry (catering type, end user), and country.

Information Source: https://www.futuremarketinsights.com/reports/usa-food-service-industry

[the-firebird69]

There's a Picasso in the tunnel and it's the tunnel it's a art piece and it's small and at the end of it there's a black and white figure on the outside and humans that are yellow and red holding up a ball of some kind in the middle of it symbolizes what Max is doing now and both sides are going after these doves my son said good does Mac have that kind of symbology today when he finished painting it you looked around and said yes so he's already running it and he said you'll have the childish version of it that's what it means having a paint like that but Dave is really saying is everybody looks disjointed their bodies are odd and it's hard to get out these concepts he got a real lesson from our son who said it's a lot harder than it looks and he revisited the painting and said you're right this guy is at us all the time and it's much harder than it looks and our son is a fighter he says I've never heard things come out of people that are coming out of him and Max says he's feeding it to him and her son says some of it cuz I need to verify cuz the frontal lobe.

It's a good chance that Tommy f is going to lose the planetoids today and will be a huge b****. We're going to go ahead and block him out and today we are discussing the automobiles in house they don't seem to even want to meet and they want to take him over we'll oppressed society and build just weapons and they think people are into it because they've seen so much stuff happen and they think they'll let it happen because of it and they're wrong so we're going to start taking over factories and it says it but in the upper Midwest and Midwest we're already taking them over but we're going to start taking them over in other areas they just want to let him sit there that's fine.

These people are not going after the empire it's just a warlock and it's not enough for them we've been through this like every week. We have areas in the United States and we have areas elsewhere and he said something makes sense we can make a whole bunch of vehicles there and we can make them elsewhere and pump them through there if we had to we don't really want to but if we had to go ahead and start taking them over they're going to put in for approval there are several Arizona Texas and the max are not interested and there people need vehicles too. There are other plants and they're just sitting idle and yeah if they freeze they're going to get ruined and they plan on freezing it as this guy Tommy f and these guys are fighting a lot. I'm going to become progressive and son has kind of a project he's getting help with and then have a couple and one of them is Bradley GT and Brad should be embarrassed to make of it and he sits there and says I'm an idiot and they've got an addiction and they're getting broken of it so he's got this Bradley GT idea and it's working there's a lot of people who are making the shell, it's just different from the other and they're making the kit for Volkswagens and there's a ton of them okay some people are trying to make Ferrari and stuff like that but they don't really care for it this is going along pretty quickly, there are probably 5, 000 Bradley GTS out in the area a day and driving around doing stuff going places and they say it like this it's what else people do we get things done. And they're just driving around but people are starting to make them and they're racing them. They're a couple times that came close to Fontana they're a couple race tracks that opened up to them couple times out in California for actual races the results are secret no Mac Daddy won he's actually the race and Ben Arnold was embarrassed and I couldn't believe it he couldn't believe it I could we have other news and stuff but it's kind of working on his project and then go ahead and start making the shell. There's a whole bunch of stuff going on the neck is going to be a problem day after tomorrow putting that on my list of things to do. There's probably 20 manufacturers of the kit and that's for GT1 and 2 and the first one looks different and the second one looks different most kind of adhered to the original design there's a couple that looks stupid and it sees two idiots and it doesn't perform well and really nobody buys theirs. Third cheesman has one it's almost the same down to a millimeter the only difference is their tail end but the vortex is still there and it's the same. Volkswagen went with a front wheel drive no still rear engine and people say no it's not and it's not and it is front-wheel drive and still hauls ass. Out of the 20 there's one that's selling about 3,000 an hour and it's picking up speed. It's a carbon panel and a frame comes with it it's not much of a frame but it is structural. The whole kit excluding the chassis drivetrain tires wheels rims engine goes for a 5200 and that's a decent price out here it takes tons of effort for these guys to get out of bed and they mold the panels and it's pretty quick out of the carbon the interior panels are simple like they should be the dash is not complicated but looks real cool and it's not a bad vehicle if it were real okay they haven't started it yet but they all have their ideas and their designs everybody's waiting for it to come out and then they have that thumb up their ass and it feels good it's a pain and more shortly

Thor Freya

[therealautoblog]

If given the green light, the VW Atlas Tanoak Pickup could be produced in as little as two years... In the meantime, we drove the priceless, one-of-one truck concept: http://bit.ly/2ohe3Uh

[diabolus1exmachina]

Volkswagen Beach Buggy  

Used up VW Beetles were abundant in California and the surf culture was at its peak in the Sixties. The dune buggy epitomized the California lifestyle, and as the concept was so simple and so inviting, it spread quickly. The beach buggy appeared in several movies, including Elvis Presley films, and the 1968 The Thomas Crown Affair, which contains a lengthy beach driving scene in which Steve McQueen drives a buggy with Faye Dunaway at his side. The beach buggy drives very well indeed and sounds fantastic when on song. Sitting proudly on chrome wheels shod with good tyres all round the beach buggy is also fitted with the very powerful 1584cc engine, this example is a real one off and looks fantastic! 

[haydenlesliepanettiere]

Hayden Panettiere at the US Premiere of Volkswagen's Concept SUV Tiguan at the Raleigh Studios on November 28, 2006 in Los Angeles, California - with Ludacris.

[fall-from-typeface]

The influence of Erik Spiekermann, Jack Stauffacher and Tré Seals on contemporary typographic design.

It could be argued that Berlin’s position as the focal point of the European type design scene is thanks largely to the work and influence of Erik Spiekermann.

Printer, designer, typographer, professor, writer, entrepreneur and even a short stint as a politician; Spiekermann’s typography career started whilst studying Art History. To pay his way through Berlin’s Free University he set himself up as a jobbing printer, working from his basement with just two typefaces in three sizes. He never finished his course; instead moving to England to teach at The London College of Printing during which time he gained freelance experience in corporate design offices then returning to Berlin in 1979 to co-found Meta Design.

The company built its reputation and status on information design with clients such as the Berlin Transport System and The German Post Office. Recognising the creative potential of digital technology in type design he proposed customising typefaces for individual brands rather than setting rules for existing typefaces which had been the standard approach up until this time. With Spiekermann at the helm for twenty years, Meta Design would go on to become Germany’s largest design company with expansion into the US and Asian markets, responsible for instantly recognisable brands such as Audi, Volkswagen and Bosch.

Yet it is worth considering that despite his global success with Meta, the influence of Spiekermann in contemporary typographic design is even greater through his next entrepreneurial endeavor. FontShop established in 1989 with his then-wife Joan Spiekermann and Neville Brody was the first mail-order producer and distributor for digital fonts. With the internet in its very infancy the concept of downloading a font from the digital cloud was still more than a decade away; instead fonts were digitised and sold on floppy discs then posted out from FontShop’s Berlin office. FontShop gave designers choice; with desk-top publishing replacing phototypesetting; the market exploded. For a decade FontShop expanded with branches across Europe and North America before going digital as FontShop International.

Continuing to hold great influence over the type industry in 1996 Spiekermann launched a three-day design conference with presentations, seminars and workshops for designers, academics, journalists, students and anybody with an interest in visual communication. TYPO Berlin has continued for more than twenty years, during which time Spiekermann has carved out an almost secondary career as speaker at design conferences across the world influencing not only type design but also peoples ideas, perceptions and knowledge of the subject.

In more recent years Spiekermann has focussed his time and efforts at his experimental letterpress workshop P98a. On the publishing of the book ‘Only On Saturday’ a tribute to the experimental wood type prints of US based letterpress printer Jack Stauffacher he said;

“As typographers, designers, and printers, we translate words into written communication. Jack had done that all his life, making words visible. Then, after he had designed pretty much everything worth designing for a purpose, he started doing the opposite: he picked random wood letters from a case he had stumbled upon and made images with them. We aren’t supposed to read those letters as words but to go back to where they came from: pictures of those things. A large red B can be a sail, a blue A on its side is the sea, and the little black letters are birds or stones or ripples. . . . When I asked Jack about the prints, he said that those letters had become such intimate friends over time that he could behold them just as beautiful objects; they didn’t have to work for a living anymore.”

(Spiekermann, E 2019)

Celebrated as one of the finest printers of the twentieth century Stauffacher dedicated his eight decade long career to print. At just fourteen he established Greenwood Press in a garage behind his parents house, initially it gave him the space and opportunity to learn and later, once he had refined his skills, Greenwood Press gave him the freedom to pursue various passion projects and personal development beyond that of his everyday paying work. As a professor of typographic design at Carnegie Mellon University and San Francisco Art Institute his genuine passion and ability to lead by example made him an influential teacher.

It would be easy to assume that as a master of the analogue printing process for most of the twentieth century Stauffacher wouldn’t hold much influence in digital typography. However the opposite is true. Despite his initial reluctance he took to digital typography quickly and was soon producing elegant sample pages alongside his analogue proofs. He was quickly approached by Adobe and became an adviser as they digitised classic typefaces in the 1980’s.

A contemporary typographer going through that same process today is the award winning designer Tré Seals. His type foundry Vocal Type design typefaces highlighting specific moments in history where underrepresented voices were amplified; often through protest posters. For his ‘Martin’ typeface Seals painstakingly researched photographs of the Memphis sanitation strike of 1968 and designed a digital typeface based on the letterpress printed picket signs carried by the striking workers. Of it’s design Seals has said

“...since releasing Martin, it’s just been amazing to see how people have put Martin to use, like since the Black Lives Matter movement throughout 2020 people have used it on protest signs from California to New York to London to Denmark to Australia. Street murals and wall murals all around the world and just seeing the impact that this font has had it just amazes me.”

(www.youtube.com, 2021)

All eight typefaces published by Vocal Type highlight voices which are underrepresented in different forms; be it race, ethnicity, orientation or gender picking specific moments in history as the starting point of their design. Through his purposeful work, Seals aims to not only highlight the lack of diversity in the design world but also increase representation in a white male dominated field ‘starting with the basis of any good design - typography’ (Seals)

References

Creative Boom. (2019). Only on Saturday: A new book celebrates the wood type prints of type legend, Jack Stauffacher. [online] Available at: https://www.creativeboom.com/features/only-on-saturday-a-new-book-celebrates-the-wood-type-prints-of-jack-stauffacher/ [Accessed 6 Apr. 2021].

Design Observer. (n.d.). Jack Stauffacher: Typographer, Scholar, Teacher, and Polymath. [online] Available at: https://designobserver.com/feature/jack-stauffacher-typographer-scholar-teacher-and-polymath/39708 [Accessed 6 Apr. 2021].

Designers & Books. (n.d.). Erik Spiekermann. [online] Available at: http://www.designersandbooks.com/designer/bio/erik-spiekermann [Accessed 30 Mar. 2021].

FontShop. (n.d.). FontShop. [online] Available at: https://www.fontshop.com/content/30-years-of-fontshop [Accessed 30 Mar. 2021].

gestalten (2020). A legacy in letters with Erik Spiekermann. [online] Medium. Available at: https://uxdesign.cc/a-legacy-in-letters-with-erik-spiekermann-f745e6498289 [Accessed 30 Mar. 2021].

Shop, gestalten U. (n.d.). A Legacy in Letters with Erik Spiekermann. [online] gestalten UK Shop. Available at: https://uk.gestalten.com/blogs/journal/a-legacy-in-letters-with-erik-spiekermann [Accessed 6 Apr. 2021].

VOCAL. (n.d.). Story of. [online] Available at: https://www.vocaltype.co/story-of.

www.eyemagazine.com. (n.d.). Eye Magazine | Feature | Meta’s tectonic man. [online] Available at: http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/metas-tectonic-man.

www.youtube.com. (2021). Protest, typography, and the fight for justice - Tré Seals in conversation with Naresh Ramchandani. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX-P8LHD_DQ [Accessed 6 Apr. 2021].

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Volkswagen Concept One, 1994. Designed by J Mays and Freeman Thomas at the VW’s California design studio. The Concept One previewed the New Beetle though it was based on a Polo platform so consequently was more compact than the production version which was based on the Mk 4 Golf's platform.

[hippiecusco]

Volkswagen expanded its Silicon Valley, California, research center, and to celebrate, it gave a 1962 Type 2 11-window Microbus a high-tech makeover. One of the most potent symbols of the 1960s, the Microbus was updated with features like an electric powertrain and a holographic infotainment system. In place of the original flat-four engine, the Type 20 concept features an electric motor producing 120 horsepower and 173 pound-feet of torque. A 10-kilowatt-hour battery pack provides the juice.

[itcars]

First Look: The Volkswagen MEB Buggy Concept

Volkswagen is bringing a legend back to life. At the beginning of March, the Wolfsburg-based Group will reveal the first fully electric version of a new buggy. Taking its cues from popular American dune buggies, the concept vehicle is based on the modular electric drive matrix (MEB), demonstrating how multifaceted the new platform truly is.

The concept of the fully electric buggy is based on the historical predecessors that found their home in California. Back then, the chassis of the Beetle served as the basis; now, the MEB is proving to be just as flexible. True to the original style, this reinterpretation of a proper buggy has no fixed roof or conventional doors, while the free-standing wheels fitted with off-road tires and open side sills dominate the overall look.

The new MEB concept vehicle shows that this fully electric platform can be used for more than just large-scale series production models. Like the Beetle chassis of yesteryear, the modular electric drive matrix has the potential to facilitate the development of low-volume niche series.

The history of recreational vehicles and Volkswagen technology is a long one: from the Beetle convertible and special bodies produced by companies such as Hebmüller and Rometsch to fully open designs of the kind embraced by the Meyers Manx buggy, the Beetle chassis allowed for creative – and sometimes exclusive – custom solutions for decades. Globally, around 250,000 individual vehicles were built as one-offs or at low volumes through to the 1980s.

The latest one-of-a-kind model, the fully electric concept buggy, will be revealed for the first time at the 89th International Geneva Motor Show (7 to 17 March 2019). The Volkswagen press conference will start at 10:20 am in Hall 2 on 5 March.

[fyrapartnersearch]

Stories, stories, stories galore!

Hello, hello! I'm E, and I'm looking for long-term roleplaying partners over Discord OR E-Mail, but preferably Discord. This time I have extremely specific prompts that I'd liked filled. There are five in total and honestly I'd prefer to have just one partner who's open to doing all four, but I know that not many people want to (or can) take on that many. I simply want these four plots filled, I'm not really looking for other plots at this time, I apologize in advance! Now, onto the boring stuff, the rules.

Rules:

Be over 18, preferably over 20 -- just no minors.

Respond with at minimum 2 or more paragraphs (I know how annoying it can be with Discord's character limit, but that's why I made the E-Mail option available!) for each reply, and have it be in 3rd POV, I'm not really comfortable roleplaying with someone that uses 1st or 2nd POV, I'm sorry. :/

I'm a visual person so I do ask that you use faceclaims for your characters, and I do want them to be actual people, not just yourself or drawn/anime characters, please.

Don't be creepy, don't god-mod, don't pester me for replies, and don't meta game. All pretty simple, yet I feel like I have to make it clear, because if I don't I know someone will do it.

That's it! If you can follow those then great, I'm glad you're still interested cause here comes the fun part, the actual plots!

Plot #1: The Other Life

Based on the universe set within Coraline and the concept of the Other Mother or Bedlam, my character would be the Bedlam's latest capture, a girl by the name of Calliope who was lured into her clutches in the late 70s after moving into an apartment with her grandmother. She let the buttons be sowed, and she's just now entering the stage the black cat called 'Bedlam's Bordeom' -- she was no longer wanted. She haunted the home just like a ghost, and she was often warmed that there would hardly be any time at all before the Bedlam would surely devour her soul. So, she hatches a plan. An escape of sorts, the cat reports that there isn't much time left at all; the homes surrounding them had been vacant for years, it was to be demolished within the month. So, Calliope writes letters and stuffs them into the doorway, hoping somebody -- anybody, really -- can read them and help her escape. Thankfully, someone does. That someone can be a new construction worker or the owner of the buildings coming to supervise the demolition, just about anyone. You help Calliope escape, and she sees the world with different eyes for the first time in nearly three decades -- but, will she be able to live in peace or will the Bedlam find a way to drag her back down like planned? I would be playing the person named Calliope, and I don't mind what gender your character plays! This would be filled with slow burn, romance, action, and a bit of horror.

Plot #2: Breaking Away

Set in the late 80s, early 90s, a boy (your character) moves into downtown Harlem with his single mother to make ends meet a little easier. It's there he meets my character Margaret, daughter of the family next door. Her parents are hardworking people and even more hardworking activists, people who contributed heavily to the Black Panther Party and all that it stands for. An impromptu meeting on the steps has our character's quickly becoming friends, and with tensions rising within the community against the world and the constant threat of being caught or killed for what they believe in, Margaret's family is forced to lay extremely low, so low that it begins to suffocate her. She wants to fight for her people, but she wishes to fight for what she wants as well. So, in the middle of a warm June night she knocks on your character's window and asks if he want's to go on a trip. It's there that they steal a volkswagen van and set out across the United States, experiencing all facets of the continent, and each other. This would be filled with slow burn, romance and angst, mainly circling around racial tension -- just a forewarning!

Plot #3: A New World

WW2 is heavily under way, and the US soldiers are finally shipping out to help out the European countries in need. They disperse all throughout Asia and Europe to try and stop German forces from overpowering or influencing those inhabitants to turn against the US soldiers who've come to their aid. In particular, a small Asian village in the Philippines where the platoon would wait for confirmation of German forces moving towards or away from their location. They're welcomed by the natives, more so the chief than anyone else. He implores his daughter, the next in line to rule them, to follow the soldiers and aid them in any way possible, more so the Sergeant than anyone else. The language barrier is hard, at first, but with bits of knowledge and language passed between them, the connection grows stronger. They both know their meeting within this village is temporary and may result in one never returning, but they cannot seem to tell their hearts to stop reaching for what they want. This would be a slow burn with romance, angst and action! I would be playing the village chief's daughter.

Plot #4: The Crown

Set shortly after Queen Elizabeth rises to the throne after her father King George passes. A bit of an Alternate Universe -- now that there is a queen to rule, her eldest born daughter, Vivianne, is now thrust into the rigorous training necessary to take the throne after her mother. Nobody else works her harder than the Prime Minister, a gruff man with words of steel that often grate upon her nerves in ways she wasn't expecting to be possible. It isn't until after a night spent at his home due to the insufferable rain that prevented anybody from moving does she see a side of him she wasn't well aware of before. It is then that the sparks of desire and wonder begin to light between them. The future Queen of England can never allow herself to fully fall for the Prime Minister, yet it seems to be the only sure thing that's going to happen the longer they are within one another's presence. This is definitely a slow burn with romance and angst. I would like a bit of an age gap for this plot -- though nothing stark. Vivianne would be of age, nothing involving minors, and I would be playing Vivianne.

Plot #5: The Only Exception

Moving to a new town in the middle of the school year was one thing -- but moving from California to a small town on the outskirts of Mobile, Alabama was another. A girl who knew no laws was suddenly thrust into a town that was as prim and proper as it was Southern. She couldn't help the disdain, she barely knew her father and now she was to spend the rest of her high school career with him until she turned 18 and was legally able to move out. She was disinterested in anything and everything -- nothing in this backwards town caught her eye. Until the rumblings of cars awoke her from her internal moping session late one night. Curiosity killed the cat, and she found herself sneaking out and heading off towards the noise, where she found essentially all of the children of the town gathered in the clearing, watching cars race down the dirt road. She would've headed back home if the entire sight hadn't entranced her -- finally something good in this town. It wasn't until the winner, the local hotshot, shot her a look that found her searching for a car in the junk yard to salvage the next day. She wanted to wipe that cocky grin off their face for the same reason it had made her stomach tighten -- she hated cocky people. This would be more of a whirlwind romance involving action and angst, I would play the new girl in town.

I hope at least one has piqued your interest, and if not, I totally get it! But, if you're interested in roleplaying, please don't hesitate to message me. My discord is: -,'- soiez -',-#4689, and my email is: virginitea@gmail.com