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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!
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
The 51% Minority: Women?s Buying Power
2008-03-06 07:50:00 This is a guest post by Jody from AskPatty.com Who is the 51% “minority” that accounts for 85% of all consumer purchases? Women . Women purchase more than 51% of all new cars and influence the purchase decision of 85% of all new cars sold in the U.S., yet shopping for a new car still remains a unpleasant ... More About: Power , Buying , Misc
Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 Bows In Geneva
2008-03-05 23:02:00 Well alrighty then … Lamborghini , those fine folk from Sant’Agata Bolognese that can’t get over a grudge (who’d a thunk it, Italians that can’t let go) have taken the wraps off the latest Gallardo , named or designated or something LP560-4. Yeah, looks a lot like a Lamborghini, doesn’t it. Smaller & lighter than it’s bigger brother, ... More About: Geneva Auto Show , Geneva , Bows
Bentley Outlines Environmental Strategy
2008-03-05 01:48:00 OK, so Bentley is going green (or so says their PR department), but who isn’t these days. The boys from Crewe (at the behest of their owners in Germany) have laid out a three stage attack on the subject: 1 - Improved efficiency: Average fleet emissions to fall by at least 15% by ... More About: Strategy , Environmental
Ground Zero RX-7: A Gorilla in a Tuxedo
2008-03-04 15:07:00 Question: How do you get a Gorilla into a tuxedo? Well you do what Tamer Kekhia and his boys did at Ground Zero Motor Sport in Tigard, Oregon. They started with a small light sports car and stuffed in enough power to send even the most uptight, rigid man into bouts of uncontrolled school girlesque ... More About: Mazda , Ground Zero
Oh God, They Could Top The V8 Caterham
2008-03-04 04:32:00 As I mentioned a little bit ago, there’s these nice (and by “nice” I mean certifiable) fellows at RS Performance that made a 500 HP V8 out of two joined Hayabusa blocks and installed it into a Caterham 7 chassis. ‘Brilliant, nothing’s gonna top this!’ Well, I was wrong (as usual). Seems that the boys at RS decided ...
2009 Mazda6: A Disappointment
2008-03-01 23:23:00 Over the past several months, Mazda has been showcasing their new mid-size trio with both auto show appearances and photos on the Internet. Called the Atenza in other parts of the world, the new redesign which has been receiving a great deal of positive praise and anticipation of its arrival here in the states. However, ... More About: Disappointment
Caterham Seven RS, They Probably Couldn?t Top This
2008-03-01 00:16:00 At first, I just shook my head, not sure if this was a good thing at all … but then that passed, I came to my senses, and thought, “Yes. Yes, this is a very good thing.” The short version is this. There’s these guys, RS Performance, who are obviously mad as hatters. A while back ... More About: Lotus
Cougar Ace: The Entire Story
2008-02-29 17:30:00 If you are any sort of car enthusiast, then you certainly remember the shipping disaster of the Cougar Ace on July 23, 2006. If you have no idea what I am talking about, here’s a small refresher: Cougar Ace The cloesly-followed event has come back to the mainstream media 18 months after it occured. Earlier yesterday, ... More About: News , Story , Entire
Performance Hybrids: A Modest Proposal
2008-02-28 22:53:00 Following up on Chris’s post from Wednesday about whether a hybrid can be a performance car (I say yes, there’s no reason why they couldn’t be). I have a modest proposal: Take a Caterham 7 chassis (see picture above), no drivetrain needed, just the differential. Bolt an electric motor directly to the diff. Don’t mess around, get ... More About: Performance , Hybrid , Hybrids , Proposal , Lotus
WHAT?! Boyd Coddington dead at 63!
2008-02-28 03:59:00 No details about how, just an announcement. © Gearhead Media - Please visit Automoblog.net for more ... More About: News , Dead , Boyd
Kids On Driver?s Licenses: Meh!
2008-02-28 03:33:00 Well this is really odd: according to statistics from the Federal Highway Administration, there are less teens with driver’s licenses then a decade ago. It used to be one half of 16 year olds had them, now it’s a third. Demographically speaking, that’s a HUGE drop. I guess what I want to know is, what’s the driver… ... More About: Kids , Misc , Driver , Licenses
Performance Hybrids: an Oxymoron?
2008-02-27 14:58:00 This is a guest post by Mike from Hybrid Car Review Although they are not known for it, hybrid engines can actually be used to enhance performance, rather than fuel economy. Given the current climate (and fuel prices!) it’s understandable the more successful hybrid cars (i.e. the Toyota Prius) gets more air time, but there ... More About: Performance , Hybrids , Oxymoron
Paul Frére: 1917 - 2008
2008-02-26 21:37:00 How unfortunate … Paul Frére recently passed at the age of 91. You should know who Paul Frére is. Not only did he win the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1960 driving a Ferrari with the great Olivier Gendebien, but he was a very well respected author and auto journalist. One of Mr. Frére’s best ... More About: News , Racing , 2008
Peace In Our Time: IRL/Champ Car Unification!!
2008-02-25 20:48:00 Rumoured for days, it seems that, for once, those rumors are true. Last Friday, Tony George, IMS & the Champ Car principles (Kevin Kalkhoven and Gerry Forsythe) put out a press release saying that as of the 2008 season, there will be a single North American open wheel racing series. This is, with out a doubt, very ... More About: News , Peace , Racing , Time
Ford?s BFT Marketing Campaign
More articles from this author:2008-02-25 00:11:00 Ford recently launched a new viral marketing campaign at BFTRules.com. It’s a spoof on the TV show COPS, except the “cops” in this case are members of “BFT” - or Built Ford Tough. They have 10 rules that Ford truck owners have to follow: 1) NO ROLLER LUGGAGE 2) NO SCOOTERS 3) NO PUNY DOGS 4) NO MEAT SUBSTITUTES 5) NO PINK SHIRTS 6) NO FANCY COFFEE 7) NO ... More About: Video , Marketing , Ford , Campaign 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
