Archive for January 24th, 2009

Cars and music go together like coffee and cigarettes, peanut butter and jelly and water and white t-shirts. But how many musicians used cars as promotion? Here’s 80 album covers indicating it’s a whole lot.
Like bacon with just about everything, music and cars are the perfect combination. As a kid we can remember riding our… »

Filed under: Diesel, Audi, Racing

2008 marked the tenth year of Audi’s Le Mans racing program and in that time the company has become one of the most successful manufacturers of all time in that category. To mark its tenth year – and the final year of the R10 TDI – as the factory representative in… »

Filed under: Diesel, MINI, European Union

BMW has announced a new green label for MINI cars. It’s called, wait for it, MINIMALISM. Similar to many other eco labels in other European markets, MINIMALISM can be found on cars that would otherwise be the base model with a few additional improvements that reduce fuel consumption. The first… »

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Fisker

Click above to enlarge the Fisker Karma
Fisker Automotive has apparently chosen a different distribution path from its arch-rival Tesla Motors. While Tesla chose to completely bypass the traditional franchise dealership system, Fisker is sticking to basics. It remains to be seen how successful the Tesla model of company-owned stores will… »

First photos of Ford’s new 5.0-liter Coyote V8. [PickupTrucks]

Original post by Ray Wert… »

Filed under: Manufacturing/Plants, Chevrolet, GM

After a sales spike for the Chevy Cobalt last spring that saw General Motors add a third shift to its Lordstown, OH assembly plant in an attempt to keep up with demand, the plant is now set to drop to a single shift. The sales meltdown that came in the fall… »

As commenters on the condition automotive, we see things great and terrible. This custom Mercedes Benz CLK on eBay is by a wide margin the most awful thing we’ve seen in a very long time.
galleryPost(’terribleclkpain’, 24, ‘The Horror… The Horror’); We don’t even know where to begin. We’re actually in physical pain here. According… »

Filed under: Biodiesel, Ethanol, EV/Plug-in, Flex-Fuel, Hydrogen, Vegetable Oil, On Two Wheels, Green Daily, UK, Racing

Green means go. It’s one of the first universal truths taught in school and it will be proven once again at the upcoming Santa Pod’s Alternative Energy Race Day. According to Managing Director, David Lloyd Jones, “As a venue, we… »

Filed under: MPG, Honda, On Two Wheels

Click above for high-res gallery of the 2009 Honda DN-01
There’s a recent trend towards automatic transmissions in full-size two-wheelers that blur the line between large maxiscooters and true motorcycles and Honda is making that distinction much harder to differentiate with its new DN-01. While Aprilia’s recent Mana 850… »

Filed under: MPG, Honda, On Two Wheels

Click above for high-res gallery of the 2009 Honda DN-01
There’s a recent trend towards automatic transmissions in full-size two-wheelers that blur the line between large maxiscooters and true motorcycles and Honda is making that distinction much harder to differentiate with its new DN-01. While Aprilia’s recent Mana 850… »