Archive for April 16th, 2008

Yes friends, we were the first to tell you that the Chevy Volt would be wending its way around town underneath the skin of old, dead Malibus back in September. Now we’re the first to show you a picture of a Chevy Volt wending its way around town underneath the skin of an old, dead… »

The Santa Monica Civic Center has erected one hell of a new, very green parking facility. The building, which looks like a technicolor nightmare, is on task to become the first LEED certified parking garage in the country. LEED is the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, basically certifying the building as green. It does… »

Sometimes the 1980’s just confuse us, though most of us here were alive for the better part of the decade. Take NBC’s Bosom Buddies, a show whose premise was that Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari dressed up as women to live in the aptly named Susan B. Anthony hotel. Why? Cheap rent. We guess it… »

Petrobras, the state run oil and natural gas company of Brazil, has announced they have discovered an off shore oil reserve of as much as 33 billion barrels of crude. That prospect places it at about the third largest known reserve in the world. Given that this is an all new oil reserve and it… »

Here’s the very first shots of the General’s upcoming Theta-based crossover that’s all about being “Professional Grade” — the 2010 GMC Terrain. The Terrain’s showing a big block-like grille peeking through the semi-transparent bra it’s wearing. Our spy shooters even indicate they believe the mesh you see surrounding said badge may in fact be indicative… »

Forget about the complicated tire pressure monitoring systems integrated into luxury cars, the P-eye makes the task of checking your tire’s pressure simple, very simple. It’s a cap for the tire that will blink red when the tire is 5-percent below its recommended pressure. The system does have a flaw, albeit a minor one.
How will… »

Having a vehicle that looks too plastic-y is never a good thing, but the latest and advanced plastic manufacturers like Borealis and Sabic are looking to the auto-world to help further their cause of plastic. Borealis is using the Fiat 500 as its test vehicle for TPO. TPO is polypropylene-based Daplen thermoplastic olefins, whatever the… »

Lai Yingying, a 47-year-old resident of Quanzhou city, works as a security guard for a shoe factory. Recently he competed and placed first in the “Push a truck with 9 people in it 15 meters while wearing heavy steel shoes” event. Lai completely dominated the event as he was the only one participating, but was… »

When we added a great big hood scoop to our V8 Volvo LeMons racer, it immediately became apparent that something was missing from the picture. But what? Walking around to the rear of the car, it hit us: we lacked a wing! Skeptics might point out that a wing would be aerodynamically meaningless on a… »

Nissan was kind enough to provide us with some time to answer questions about their new Nissan-Chrysler Platform Swap. For those who haven’t been following the news, Dodge is going to build the next generation full-size truck for Nissan based on the upcoming Dodge Ram platform. In return, Nissan is going to build a small… »