SquareWheels Automotive

10/15/2026

Come fwm.

10/05/2026

10/04/2026

09/28/2026

On a long enough timeline, it won’t matter who bet on me. Keep watching.

—> Proof it’s not AI, for the super sleuths 🕵️‍♀️

09/24/2026

"It'd be perfect if only it didn't void my warranty."

It doesn't. Installing an aftermarket head unit — or any aftermarket part — does not void your vehicle warranty.

That's the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, a US federal law from 1975. A manufacturer cannot make your warranty contingent on using their own parts (15 U.S.C. 2302(c)).

What a dealer can do is refuse warranty service on a particular part — and only if they can show the aftermarket part caused that covered part to fail. That is a far smaller thing than "your warranty is void," which is what people get told at the counter.

The honest caveat: this is US federal law, it's information and not legal advice, and it does not stop a dealer from arguing. What it does is put the burden of proof on them instead of on you.

Know someone who was told otherwise? Send them this one.

09/22/2026

Some things never change 🤷🏾‍♂️

Factory stereos never stood a chance.

Half the fun of getting a car was making the sound system yours.

06/10/2026

Nulla tenaci invia est via.

"For the tenacious, no road is impassable."

I have those words tattooed on my arm. Most people who see them don't know they're Spyker's. I put them there years ago — not only as a car reference, but as a reminder I could carry with me: that the only way you actually lose is by quitting. That conviction is worth more than comfort. That down is not the same as out.

So watching Spyker climb off the mat again hits differently for me.

If you don't know the story: this is a company that went bankrupt. Then came back. Then nearly disappeared again. Years of legal standoffs, collapses, write-offs. By every reasonable measure, the smart money said it was over a long time ago.

And today they're announcing a new car — an 800-hp V8, debuting this August at Monterey. Victor Muller put it plainly: "It's been an interesting ride in the past few years, but we're here, and we're building cars. This is the very first one of many."

We're here. And we're building.

That's the whole thing, isn't it? Not the horsepower. The fact that they're still standing to make the announcement at all.

I think about this a lot in my own work — building products, building ventures, doing the slow unglamorous reps when nothing is guaranteed. It's easy to confuse a hard season for a final verdict. To read a setback as a signal to stop. The tenacious don't get an easier road. They just refuse to accept that the road ends where everyone else says it does.

Spyker isn't a sure thing. The comeback might be brilliant or it might be brutal — that's exactly why it's worth respecting. They're choosing to keep building anyway.

If you're in a low stretch right now, building something nobody can see yet, take this as your sign:
It's not over until you give up.

Stay strong to what you believe in.