Archive for May 30th, 2008

Posted By:Phil LeBeauFollowing my blog earlier this week asking you to tell me who is to blame for GM’s problems, I received the following e-mail from the automaker. Give it a read and let me know what you think.    Read More Topics:Marketing | Alternative Energy … »

You ever had one of those weeks? Those knock-down, drag-out, pull-ya-under kind of weeks? A week that literally sucks the will to live right out from you? Yeah, you know what we’re talking about. We had one of those weeks this week. Even having Monday off wasn’t enough for us. The rest of the week… »

The Aston Martin V8 Vantage is a gorgeous car, but anyone who’s ever driven one has always been left with a feeling that the V8’s bark was bigger than it’s bite. Actually, the bark’s not so loud either. OK, really — it’s just a pretty dog. Sure you could send the Vantage off to Prodrive… »

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With the drive to push children to define their life goals while still infants, we think the direction this kid is being pushed by his helicopter parents is at least as awesome as the future mapped out for the Powerwheels kid. This little tyke looks to be a bit younger, but possessing parking… »

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OK, so it’s obviously not the new driver training program. Better question we’ve got is whether this girl is loving this or is scared out of her mind — or maybe she just heard what happened to Timo when a stone jumped “up into the asshole.” Either way, it’s certainly entertaining on a… »

You ever seen “A Christmas Story?” Remember the end of the movie? You know, at the Chinese restaurant — the duck? Yeah, I kind of feel like the 2010 Ford Fusion may be making a similar facial expression, at least according to these new spy photos of a new mule shot by the boys at… »

Back when each of The General’s divisions designed its own hardware, Buick developed the two-speed Dynaflow automatic from the transmission it put in M18 tank destroyers during the war. Yes, the Dynaflow started out as a transmission for a tracked vehicle! Sadly, this Cool Transmission Name disappeared after the 1963 model year. [Wikipedia]

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Aside from futuristic imagination of nanotechnology and ridiculously awesome environmental damage models, Crysis is pretty much a standard first-person shooter. What’s really cool is the map development capabilities available to the average gamer. We get a pyrotechnically charged demonstration of that dev system here, with the fun combination of skydiving and blowing up… »

Toyota’s Crown Hybrid is getting one hell of a feature that will make the walkers of the world happy: night vision pedestrian recognition. Complex pattern recognition system cameras will recognize when pedestrians are walking alongside the road and put a nice yellow square around them on a camera view on the driver-side LCD instrument panel…. »

You can’t go more than a block or two in Berkeley without running across some sort of interesting old car; we saw the Jag XK140 that Herr Johnson shot for us last week, and now we’re going to look at a car that’s nearly as rare (though not quite as sought after). The Toyota Corona… »