One Lap of the Web: preservation-class edition

 Is that an SP2 behind that Beetle? You bet. Photo by youtube user: Bufalos TV

-- This video about a preserved Volkswagen dealership in Brazil is in Portuguese, and even if you don't know Portuguese, it will still make sense to you if you're a car person. (Or, you can activate the English subtitles on YouTube, as it's an interesting story.)

-- What's the best truck for scaling vertical surfaces? That's right, it's the Unimog, and this week there's a 1965 example (that would be the oval-faced version) on the eBays with a rather realistic Buy it Now price. This one is already attracting quite a bit of attention from people who need a solid winter driver.

-- As this new trailer for "Gran Turismo 6" (the video game, not the audiobook) proves, we're only a few years away from having photorealistic cars and environments in games. So we are essentially only a few years away from car-hating millennials abandoning the notion of personal four-wheel transportation completely, except for those times when they have to move somewhere. But there's Zipcar for that. So who's going to want actual cars that one might want to own and drive in real life? Thanks, "Gran Turismo"!

-- Caterham is launching a motorcycle division. The first bike, the Brutus 750, looks like a very large Swiss Army Knife with SUV tires. In other words, it's vaguely how we imagined a motorcycle by Caterham would look. Do we want to try one? Keep an eye on our Bikes section in the magazine.

By Autoweek editors

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