In the truest sense of the term, this means a swooping roofline, only two passenger doors, and a wagon-esque tail. However, with SUVs becoming a necessity for the companies that previously focused exclusively on sports cars and supercars, the other major talking point on this Ferrari is one we can get behind wholeheartedly: it's a shooting brake. The Ferrari FF, the car that this GTC4Lusso replaced, was the marque's first-ever model with an all-wheel-drive setup that some felt diluted the Ferrari brand.
If you're a purist, this is your cue to click over to a different article. Thank you and good night.A four-wheel-drive Ferrari. We’ve got no proof about that in the slightest, but when you’ve got instinct you go with it. We believe what happened is the real Max Headroom came to life and hijacked TV. So we went to throw our “hat” into the “ring”. Ultimately, there remain a lot of conspiracy theories but no conclusion. “ ripe for media studies too, perhaps-a cyberpunk culture jam, an anarchic protest decades before Anonymous and hacktivism became household terms, reminding unsuspecting audiences how unsuspecting they really were.” We get a lot of those in the YouTube era, but the fact the hijackers remain unknown is what makes this incident special.Īnd as that excellent Motherboard piece puts it, the Max Headroom Broadcast Intrusion:
“It did need a dish antenna, but if they got close to the STL receiver antenna at the TV transmitter, than a Direct-TV-size antenna might have been adequate.”īut the reality seems this was nothing more than a grand scale prank. Michael Marcus shunned the verdict of the WGN – he thought nothing overly sophisticated or expensive was required as second-hand equipment could be picked up. It’s revealed an FBI report on the incident by a Dr. The FBI’s Chicago office warned everyone there’s a penalty of $100,000 and a 12 month spell in jail. In what’s an incredibly in-depth investigative piece from 2013, it provides some revealing insights.īut with illegal interference of broadcast signals a federal offense, the government was pretty miffed with the intrusion. Motherboardextensively documented the possibilities of who did the act. It was the 30th anniversary of this event last year (our math skills paying off there – C at GCSE level, thank you very much).Īnd this was celebrated with various articles detailing the incident.īut others further back have done a fine job of getting to the bottom of this. Who fans just complained their VHS recordings had been spoiled. The incident made the news across America and prompted public debate. As there were no engineers working during the unexpected broadcast, technicians within WTTW tried to block the transmission.īut then it ended anyway and that was that. What in the name of bejeezus did any of it mean!? What was certain, claimed by WGN’s engineering director, is the individuals responsible needed cutting-edge equipment to achieve what they did.