The expression “happy as a clam” comes from American English and is a shortened form of “happy as a clam at high tide.” Content as a clam in the tide. And us? Let's flood our world with joy with lots of motorized clams. And all the other beautiful treasures found on the beach of life. We just need to get started.
ramp #69 More Than Machines
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Maybe it all starts with a misunderstanding. The mistaken belief that humans are rational beings. That we make decisions with cool heads and functional thinking, weighing and optimizing as we go. And yes, maybe sometimes we do. But only sometimes. Because in truth, we are not reason, we are resonance.
And so this issue of ramp is a cheerful plea. For beauty that needs no justification.
ramp #67 Friends with Benefits
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Friends shift our view on life. Make it smoother. Or wilder. Like "friends with benefits". Minimal commitment, maximum fun. And from the perspective of an open-minded car culture magazine? That idea works just as well in a metaphorical gear. Which brings us – with a grin – straight to the sports cars.
ramp #66 Drive My Car
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A three-hour Japanese drama where nothing much appears to happen other than endless car rides and which is somehow about the multilingual production of a stage play may not immediately seem like something that could arouse your curiosity. Though it should. For us, these 179 minutes served as inspiration for the title to our latest issue of ramp.
ramp #64 How About That!
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Surprises open our eyes to new things, which now isn't really a big surprise. The unexpected simply stays in memory longer, sparks curiosity – and prompts action. Essential for adapting to a changing world. The future might just be warming up for progress. It's meant to move forward effectively.
ramp #65 Surfing Cowboys
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If you think "Surfing Cowboys" refers to neoprene-clad prairie riders or surfers wearing cowboy hats, you're slightly off the mark in this case. In the latest issue of our Car.Culture.Magazine, it's about the meeting of two quintessentially American archetypes, both embodying a deep longing for lived independence and untamed, self-determined freedom.
ramp #63 Happy on the Road
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Happy on the road? You bet. For any respectable car culture magazine, after all, being happy on the road is a mandatory prerequisite. Over time, and with a little bit of luck (which is, after all, a close relative of happiness), these feelings cheerfully blossom into an emotional foundation that ...
ramp #62 Wild Things
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Just heading along, the journey itself a wonderfully blank page that presents itself to us with a cheerful unpredictability, as an inspired playing field for trial and error, for curiosity and spontaneity, unexpected surprises and flights of fancy. Wild and untamed. Just like life itself.
ramp #61 Love Is in the Air
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Blue skies, the scent of fresh grass, the warmth of the moment – but above all: sunshine. The light of the sun’s rays, scientists say, is the decisive factor at the beginning of the warm season that triggers the merry mix of happiness hormones which energetically drive us headlong into the summer.
ramp #60 Too Cool to Handle.
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A magazine about coolness? Among other things. But one thing at a time. First of all, it’s off to the movies. There’s this businessman from Boston who helps relieve a bank of a substantial amount of money. The insurance companies are on to him, but they can’t prove a thing. That, in a nutshell, is the plot of...
ramp #59 Tomorrow Is Yesterday
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“Tomorrow Is Yesterday” was the title of an episode of the television series Star Trek, and although it was the nineteenth episode overall, it was the first to flicker into German living rooms fifty years ago this May. The story revolved around timelines and time travel.
ramp #58 Hot Wheels
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We love to play. To playfully try things out that make us curious. Whether these things want to be played with or not. Because the challenge is part of the game. Just like in real life.
ramp #57 Really?
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If you think logical thinking is the perfect epistemological tool, you’d better put this magazine aside right now. Unfortunately, life is not unconditionally logical. More like merrily untamed. But no matter. People may think logically – but also always intuitively. The ideal philosophical method: dialectics.
rampspecial New Horizon
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With the New Horizon, Christian Zschocke created a sculpture on four wheels that whets the appetite for the future. In an interview, the Frankfurt-based lawyer explains why he would like to see more courage in society, how the car actually drives, and why he was totally taken aback by the reactions to the art project.
