Is a Toyota Proace a Peugeot? Pretty much. So are the Citroën Jumpy, Opel Vivaro, Fiat Scudo and even the Iveco eJolly: six badges on one van. Carmakers have been sharing platforms for decades, but these days a lot of cars are the same vehicle sold under several names, and it’s hard to see that from any single brand’s catalogue.

So I made a chart of it.

Open the Identical Car Chart →

Prefer paper? There’s also an A0 poster (PDF, 14 MB) that shows just the 78 twin families, made to be printed and read without hovering.

Continue reading Same car, different badge: a chart of every car on sale in Europe →

I’ve decided to add a DSP to the AUX input of my cars radio.

I have a 2012 Nissan NV200 with a Bosch-made Nissan Connect radio. That radio has a combined 8-pin plug for USB and Aux.

On the internet you can find various adapters from 8pin to RCA+USB, however those all have the wrong gender. They’re made to connect a radio with generic Inputs to a Nissan wiring-harness. However, I needed a adapter to connect an Nissan/Bosch radio to a generic wiring-harness.

Continue reading Building a AUX and USB Adapter for Nissan Connect →