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These Hyundai Boys have Some Driving Skills!
2008-03-28 15:52:00 I must say…I never thought you could do some of these things in an old Hyundai . If you’re looking for the short version of this, just watch up until about 3 minutes into the video. It starts to get monotonous after that. Link: Youtube ... More About: Video , Driving , Skills , Boys
Damage Coming To Gran Turismo?
2008-03-27 20:29:00 That’s what Kazanori Yamauchi, the guy behind the Gran Turismo series says at any rate. “We’ve had a lot of discussions with the manufacturers and although at the beginning they hated the idea of deformation, now they’re slowly coming around to it. We’ve still got a few to convince, but we will. Expect deformation in the ... More About: Video Game , Gran turismo , Damage
2009 Solstice Gets a Toupe, And it Looks Good!
2008-03-27 19:33:00 To continue my fan-boy Pontiac posts (yes, I am a devoted follower of the pointy badge), a new version Solstice was unveiled alongside the G8 GXP as well as the new 2009 Vibe at the New York International Auto Show last week. Named the Pontiac Solstice Coupe, the two seater will still be able ... More About: Good
Checker Marathon Redux: Ford Transit Connect Taxi
2008-03-26 22:27:00 Or at least that’s what the good folks at Wired’s Autotopia blog say. I think the Ford Transit Connect could make a very viable taxi. It’s got a lot of what you want in a taxi: big on the inside, small on the outside (doesn’t take up much road), and it looks to be rugged enough ... More About: Marathon , Taxi
Why The Nissan GT-R Will Fail
2008-03-25 19:52:00 Well, that’s pretty bold statement relayed to me by the fine folks at Axis of Oversteer . They pointed to this story at a (new to me, but still very good) site called Speed Sport Life , that basically takes Nissan and the GT-R to task. To wit: “…What’s the Nissan GT-R’s market ...
The Next Move For Monsieur Todt
2008-03-24 19:38:00 OK, first there were rumors that Jean Todt, he of Ferrari team & upper company management, was going to get the boot (it’s really long and convoluted, but it has to do with the retiring of Schumacher, and a long running battle with Luca di Montezemolo). And then it turned out that those rumors are ... More About: Racing , Move
Oil Boom Diamond Kitsch
2008-03-22 17:34:00 OK, so there’s this odd, but interesting site called Oobject. The site is sort of like a cross between BoingBoing, the old Billboard magazine and a design forum, or as they say themselves: ” … like Billboard charts for gadgets.” Their latest posting is all about the rise, both in number and level of grotesquerie, of diamond ... More About: News , Funny , Boom , Diamond
Champ Car Teams Dropping Like Flies Following IRL Merger
2008-03-21 23:17:00 Or so says the folks over at Autoblog . Indeed, that IS true, some of the bigger teams from Champ Car , Forsythe, Walker Racing, and Minardi have dropped out of the now merged series. But here’s the bit from Autoblog’s story that I don’t get: ” … former Champ Car co-owner Kevin Kalkhoven will give it a ... More About: News , Teams , Flies , Merger
The BMW Concept CS - Dynamically Dynamic Dynamics
2008-03-21 14:21:00 Wow, they really let the marketing department have their way with this press release. If you read the recent press release by BMW about the new Concept CS (below,) you’ll notice that they use some variation of the word “dynamic” a ridiculous amount of times. Dynamic driving, dynamic length, dynamic flowing lines…they really laid it on ... More About: Funny , Dynamics
So Many Late 70s Cliches All In One Place
2008-03-20 19:22:00 Yes, eBay, the final repository for all that crap you should have gotten rid of decades ago. Today’s case in point: A 1977 Dodge Tradesman van with a custom Star Wars mural painted on the side. Located in Akron Ohio. Got to love th’custom interior - WITH drum kit (I’m not really sure if that’s included). Somebody out ... More About: Funny , Place , Late
The BMW Concept CS - Dynamically Dynamic Dynamics
2008-03-20 19:21:00 Wow, they really let the marketing department have their way with this press release. If you read the recent press release by BMW about the new Concept CS (below,) you’ll notice that they use some variation of the word “dynamic” a ridiculous amount of times. Dynamic driving, dynamic length, dynamic flowing lines…they really laid it on ... More About: Funny , Dynamics
Announced: Pontiac G8 GXP Comes in 2008!
2008-03-20 16:00:00 General Motors is wasting no time in producing a hot-rod version of it’s highly-anticipated G8 sedan, which will arrive in your local dealerships at the end of this year. GM and Pontiac unveiled the GXP at the New York Auto Show this week. According to their press release, which is chalk full of performance specifications, ... More About: 2008
Ferrari F2007 Featured In Gran Turismo 5?
2008-03-20 00:15:00 Oh really? This has been floating around for a couple of days, and I’ve got to say, at least it’s a step in the right direction. Sure, the handling “physics” will be cartoony, and there will be no damage or fatigue models (to be spun with the same tired old excuses of “the manufacturers blah blah blah,” ... More About: Ferrari , Turismo , Featured , Gran turismo
Ford Launches 2009 ?Warriors in Pink? Mustang for Breast Cancer
2008-03-19 06:46:00 Due to the success of the 2008 “Warriors in Pink ” Mustang , Ford announced today that it will be doubling their contribution to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation - now $500 for each car sold. They will be produced in limited numbers - 1,000 units total for this year, available at your local ... More About: Cancer , Breast Cancer
Kenguru: Drive-In Car for Wheelchairs
2008-03-18 22:11:00 I know, what a great idea/weird idea, right? Funny thing is, I’ve seen a convertible version of this kind of, uh, conveyance … For those of you that don’t know, I lived on The North Shore for three years. One day, I’m out walking through my neighborhood, and I go down this street that’s in ... More About: News , Drive , Wheelchairs
Bugatti Outdoes Itself?..Again
2008-03-18 15:05:00 If you think the ultra-wealthy reached the peak of their automotive spending on the ?regular? Bugatti Veyron, or even the bare-metal and carbon fiber Pur Sang, you obviously don’t know Bugatti. The Paris-based company recently teamed up with mecca of the custom suitcase world, Hermés, to create the most expensive and outrageous Veyron yet. Aptly named ...
ALMS Rumor: Acura Moving Up To LMP1 With A Diesel?
2008-03-17 19:36:00 What? Is AutoblogGreen Serious? Is Acura Serious? Is Acura really going to go toe-to-toe with the likes of Audi & Peugeot in the high-stakes game of international prototype racing? Beats me, but if they do, this could get real interesting. First off it fits in with a framework of what Honda has done in the past: use ... More About: Rumor , Racing , Diesel , Moving
Autorama Detroit 2008
2008-03-17 15:04:00 Autorama made a brief stop in Detroit the second weekend of March 2008 before drifting away towards its next destination. While in Detroit, the custom car showcase displayed an array of vehicles, both old and new, reinforcing, and in some cases, sparking new love-affairs with the car lover in everyone. At the event you had ... More About: Events
My Love For Volkswagen Is Dying
2008-03-16 17:05:00 It must have been when, on a whim of sorts, I bought a 1977 VW Bus from an impound lot in Grand Rapids, Michigan, that I first got my taste of ?German Engineering?. Well, I got it running, but I think it needed a lot of work and I just sold it off for ... More About: Love , Volkswagen , Dying
Awesome Pontiac G8 GT Commercial - Spyhunter
2008-03-15 16:19:00 Very good move for Pontiac here. This commercial is based off the 1980’s classic video game Spyhunter. The very market who Pontiac aims to sell these cars to grew up playing these games, and I think this will really strike a cord with us. This is honestly the coolest car commercial I think I’ve ever ... More About: Commercial , Awesome
Galpin Jaguar XF
2008-03-14 19:42:00 OK, so who, exactly, are these guys that work at Galpin ? Are they, what 14 years old? Because the seem to have the taste of a 14 year old, circa 1983. I have this strong, and nauseating, visual impression of an office filled with Member Only jackets and excessively unbuttoned Rayon shirts and way, way ... More About: Jaguar
So Bad That Even Stephen Colbert Could See It Was Fake
2008-03-13 21:17:00 OK, there’s been this story twittering around out there about Ferrari and the Italian Police (con Caribinieri) broke up this “ring” of guys selling replica Ferraris built on Fiero chassis. In Italy. Oh sure, no one’s gonna notice in fricking ITALY you morons. Funny thing is, Ferrari goes kind of ape like that every so often … there ... More About: Colbert , Stephen Colbert , Fake
Z Car Redesign? Wrong, Wrong, Wrong.
2008-03-12 17:53:00 Coming out of the Fresh Alloy forums and courtesy of Autoblog, are these images and rumors about a redesign.refreshing of Nissan ’s iconic Z car. The most notable, um, improvement, is a headlight redesign. Boy, let’s hope they’re wrong about this, cause that just looks terrible. Squinty, no sense of flow or direction, the mass/form vs. void proportions are ... More About: Redesign , Wrong
Mickey Thompson, Still Turning Up In The Strangest Places
2008-03-11 21:24:00 So, the latest Automobile Quarterly showed up at me door Saturday, and in amongst the expected articles (a nice write up on Brookland’s anniversary, a history of Lorraine-Dietrich, etc.), there was an really nicely done bio on Mickey Thompson . Now, all of you out there should know who Mickey Thompson is. Many moons ago, when I was ... More About: Misc , Places
Lotus? New ?Entry-Level? 2-Eleven
2008-03-10 18:12:00 OK, by now it should be readily apparent that this is my kind of a car. I LOVE light-weight, bare-bones, handling-above-all-else sports cars. Lotus 7s, Miatas, MR2s, Elises, Ferrari Dino 206S,those are my kind of rides. If I could figure out how to get a Formula Ford licensed for street use, I’d do it ... More About: Entry
Test Drive: 2009 Dodge Journey
2008-03-09 11:53:00 After days of repeatedly shoveling the snow out of my drive-way, just to repeat the task again the next day, I finally caught a break from Mother Nature and was able to make it over to the local Dodge dealer to test drive the new 2009 Journey . Upon first glance of the Journey, images of the ... More About: Drive , Test Drive , Test
Fritz Henderson named new GM President
2008-03-07 22:27:00 Frederick “Fritz ” Henderson has been named the new President of General Motors. Prior to his new role, he was vice chairman and chief financial officer for the General … wait, wait, stop right there. Another bean counter? Another guy, rising to the top of the board via the finance department. How many finance guys have run ...
Alfa Convertible Coming in 2009
2008-03-07 16:15:00 Alfa Romeo has announced their 8C Competizione “sex-on-wheels” sports car will be dropping its top for the 2008 Geneva Motor Show. The C8 Spider, which will go on sale here early next year, will shed its fixed roof for a conventional cloth top. Sorry hardtop lovers, no fancy metal folding-roofs will be offered. But don’t fret, ... More About: Alfa Romeo , Convertible , Alfa
Honda F1 RA300 and RA108 at Geneva
2008-03-06 19:32:00 Here’s something I didn’t expect to see on a stand at this years Geneva Motor Show, not one but TWO Honda F1 cars, and even cooler, one of them is from 1967! Bitchin’! The folks at AutoBlog had the shots and info. Personally, I remember it being a big deal when John Surtees of all people decided ... More About: News
Chinese-Designed Buick Concept Is Stunning!
More articles from this author:2008-03-06 18:00:00 A recent trip to the Cleveland International Auto Show over the weekend gave me a chance to see a concept that I didn’t know existed. After being able to stand there and lay my eyes on it, I felt very lucky to see a piece of automotive art. This concept, called the Buick Riviera Concept , ... More About: Concept Cars , Chinese , Stunning 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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