Cool Factor, The: A Guide to Achieving Effortless Style, with Secrets from the Women Who Have It

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Few cars were as ahead of their time as the Cord 810 of 1936. The first car to feature hidden headlights (which were actually aircraft landing lights), as well as innovations like intermittent windscreen wipers and radio as standard. The Cord 810 was also pioneering for being front-wheel drive, while also featuring sleek horizontal air inlets rather than a conventional radiator grille. A one-eyed seventy year old nun who runs a gun-smuggling 'church of violence' and whose weapon of choice is a golden Desert Eagle she fires one handed? This trope is the sole reason the "Burly Brawl" scene in Reloaded exists. It's ten minutes of Neo fighting endless clones of Smith for no real plot-enhancing reason. It just looks cool. Jeremy Clarkson of Top Gear. In the show's various challenges (convert a vehicle to be amphibious and drive it across a body of water; buy a cheap two-wheel-drive car and cross Botswana), he inevitably goes for more flash, more speed, and more power. As a result, he always seems to achieve magnificent success or equally magnificent Epic Failure. But you didn’t come here for an ontological treatise on the nature of cool: you came here because you’re after a list of cool cars, and that’s exactly what we have here for you, with 10 cool cars you can buy today if you have the means, and 10 cool cars from times gone by.

The sole reason that the monsters explode into fireballs upon defeat. It's a flashy way to get rid of a monster without more expensive post-editing effects. Roja pretty much lives on the Rule of Cool. For starters, the titular hero is a Gratuitous McNinja in the 17th century Madrid. This means that Absurdly Sharp Blade and Katanas Are Just Better often come into play.Scott Pilgrim vs. The World : Why do all of Ramona's evil exes meet some requirement of video game boss style, explode into coins when defeated, and everyone naturally is just that good at martial arts? So that when Scott wins the girl, it's really cool.

The new Mercedes-Benz S-Class is cool for a multitude of reasons, but in particular because it offers some of the most advanced in-car tech you'll find anywhere. A new 12.8-inch touchscreen is the centerpiece – replacing last year's 10.3-inch screen – and it replaces 27 knobs and dials from the previous model. There's also a new MBUX infotainment system, an updated "Hey, Mercedes" voice assistant now capable of recognizing up to 27 different languages, and a 12.3-inch digital instrument cluster. The 2021 Mercedes-Benz S-Class is a technological tour de force.Chevrolet engines were planned to be used but it was Ford that showed the most enthusiasm. At first, Shelby used Ford’s 7.5-litre V8 but it was the 4.7-litre (or 289 cubic inch) V8 which would become the most famous engine. That said, the 7.0-litre unit later introduced to make the Cobra more competitive on the GT racing scene also grabbed attention – these models also got heavily revised suspension and a modified chassis, too. Some of the 7.0-litre models were built for racing and some for road use – the latter known as ‘427 Cobra S/Cs’ with S/C standing for ‘semi-competition’. General Grievous would not exist were it not for this trope. An evil alien cyborg general with four arms who hunts Jedi for sport? Hell yes! To help keep manufacturing costs down Ford used its Cortina’s platform as a base for designing the Capri. When the finished product arrived, it came with leaf springs and drum brakes at the rear and disc brakes mounted to MacPherson struts upfront. Importantly for many drivers, a four-speed manual gearbox was also on hand. Mechanical parts are relatively easy to come by, but as a low-volume model from some time ago bodywork and trim pieces can be like hens’ teeth, and the car itself is hardly commonplace – though that arguably makes it cooler. 10. Talbot-Lago T150 ‘Teardrop’ Basically, all forms of combat featured in Star Wars are glowy sci-fi futuristic space versions of some form of Real Life combat that was (and is) considered to be extremely cool. Lightsaber duels? Swordfighting. Starfighters? Old School Dogfighting. Starship battles? Naval battles. The Clone Wars? Huge armies tearing each other apart. The Force and Force-based Psychic Powers only add more awesome to the mix.