Archive for May 15th, 2008

Our gadget-obsessed brothers at Gizmodo got us the scoop yesterday on Honda’s Asimo taking a run at the job of conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra two nights ago. Little did we know Jalopnik friend of friends Fabrizio Costantini (check out his site — the man’s a genius with a camera) was in charge of… »

In today’s episode of The Holy-Shit-Gas-is-High Alternative Fuel Chronicles, we encounter researchers in Romania and Turkey that have devised a way to turn the circuit boards from old electronics into a potential fuel source. The process uses a combination of catalysts, high temperatures and chemical filtration to extract toxins from old electronic junk that could… »

Though now a much loved song, “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” by the Rolling Stones was released as a B-side on Honky Tonk Woman, not as its own single. In the middle of the song Jagger sings
I was standing in Line with Mr. Jimmy and Man, did he look pretty ill/We decided… »

With the emerging global Saturn Vue shortage crisis biting into the supply of crossovers, global prices of the US-ified Opel are spiking to unheard of levels. Case in point comes from Saturn of Oxford Valley — ground zero for the desperate shortages. With so few Vues on the market, and demand so incredibly high, prices… »

The ‘58 Lincoln put up a good showing, but in the end the Porsche 928 takes the prize, with 56% of you choosing Polyester-Clad White Powder Distributor over Chain-Smoking Rat Pack Player in Monday’s Choose Your Eternity poll. But with a Datsun nearly beating a Peugeot last week, not to mention an Acura winning the… »

We take the new 540hp GT500KR to Miller Motorsports to see if this it’s as good on the track as it is on the road….and shed a ton of rubber while we’re at it.

Original post by Ray Wert… »

It looks like Henrik Fisker and company are asking to have the Tesla suit arbitrated in Orange County. As you’re all well aware, neither Fisker nor Tesla are actually making cars but are instead just suing the crap out of each other over various charges (here’s an explanation of the Tesla and Fisker suit). Long… »

Much of the old Detroit iron in the eastern half of the continent has oxidized into nothingness by now, but that doesn’t mean it’s all gone. Virginia-based Jagvar has been kind enough to shoot some quality photos of a very clean ‘54 Chrysler that parks in his neighborhood. The Windsor was the least expensive Chrysler… »

Ow ow ow ow. Even though Cadillac is planning a motorcycle for the LA Auto Show, we thought the themed chopper craze was starting to die off. Apparently if you own a Tweety yellow Lamborghini Gallardo, it’s alive and well. It speaks volumes of this custom chopper that it is trailered on a wonderfully classy… »

We’ve seen the cars that finished the race, but what about the ones that spent more time in the pits than on the track? Our pit space was sandwiched between a couple of never-say-die teams: the Snowspeeder Pilots Association, whose MR2’s engine ate its rod bearings, and Team SSPP22, whose Volvo 780 Bertone broke its… »