3000 blogs/short articles later (a review)
10/13/2018
It's hard to believe, but since we launched Zwischengas, 3000 blogs or short articles have already been published (including this one). Normally one article is published per day, so you can deduce that we are about 3000 days old.
Of course, this small anniversary calls for a look back and we first took a look at the 200 most-read posts.
Lonely at the top was an article written in 2015 about the end of exhaust flap systems and its impact on future classic cars.
It is still not clear to us today why this short article in particular was read so much, almost three times more than all the others.
The thoughts we published in 2013 under the title " The Swiss Greens want to ban classic cars" also generated a lot of interest.
At that time, the delegates' meeting of the environmentally-oriented party adopted the objective that combustion engines should disappear by 2050.
This was followed in third place by the first article, which had nothing to do with current affairs or politics, but with the color scheme of old cars. On September 7, 2011, we wrote something about the color palette of the VW Beetle in 1964.
In fact, there is also a color topic at number 10, the blog " The colorful world of the Porsche seventies" in 2012 was about the paint options for the 911 (picture above).
The short articles on the " Classics of the future" have also proved very popular over the past eight years. There are now around one hundred of these articles, all of which deal with younger cars that could become sought-after classic cars in the future (or perhaps already today). Incidentally, the most read article in this series is the one about the BMW E30 Cabriolet.
Our memories of forgotten movie cars or vehicles that played a certain role in television series also attracted a lot of interest. Such contributions can be found several times in the top 50. For example, Jim Rockford's thoughts on the Pontiac Firebirdor the movie beetle Dudu.
One of our own favorites also made it into the top 25: " The car quartet as a playful approach to car technology" .
In general, it is of course difficult to retrospectively pick out the particularly interesting articles. Readers certainly like topics that deal with market trends, that describe unexpected new perspectives on a topic or that are about exciting people.
We don't write our blog posts with readership quotas in mind. They are simply thoughts that occur to us in the course of our work, surprising subjects that we come across during visits to exhibitions or pictures that catch our eye in the archive. We comment on them and hope that our readers will also find them interesting. The Fiat 500 kit that we discovered at Techno Classica in 2015 is a good example of this.
It's great that you can continue to read all of these 3000 articles. Printed together, they would probably make a book of over 1500 pages. And if you are only interested in certain topics, you can also search for them directly.
