http://autoclerks.com New Car news and Reviews Fri, 16 May 2008 22:00:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Few shows in the annals of television history are as widely known and completely strange as Perfect Strangers. Employing the typical "fish out of water" scenario that has been abused by sitcoms for the entire breadth of the medium, there's a certain quality of Perfect Strangers that sets it apart ... http://autoclerks.com/2008/05/commenter-of-the-day-perfect-strangers-edition-commenter-of-the-day/ We'd rather not devote time to Max Mosley and his ongoing attempts to screw up racing like he's screwed up his life, but the story keeps getting crazier and crazier. After being asked to avoid F1 events and, basically, being benched for Monaco, Mosley has issued a letter stating ... http://autoclerks.com/2008/05/max-mosley-threatens-fia-will-go-to-crap-if-hes-ousted-officially-channeling-nixon-max-mosley/ The extremely cheap, extremely sketchy (putatively) NSX-engine-powered Acura Legend obliterated the dime-a-dozen turbo Civic in yesterday's Choose Your Eternity poll, which is about what we expected. So what if we could find not just an NSX engine but an entire car for cheap (well, maybe entire isn't the right word ... http://autoclerks.com/2008/05/pch-ten-grand-to-glory-edition-acura-nsx-or-59-corvette-choose-your-eternity/ The Toyota Tacoma has played second fiddle to darn near everybody for its entire life. Early on it was the domestics, now its the full size Toyota Tundra. That doesn't mean its standing still as far as updates go. We managed to find this dealer product brief buried within the ... http://autoclerks.com/2008/05/2009-toyota-tacoma-to-get-better-fiddle-argent-painted-grille-2009-toyota-tacoma/ The Toyota Tacoma has played second fiddle to darn near everybody for its entire life. Early on it was the domestics, now its the full size Toyota Tundra. That doesn't mean its standing still as far as updates go. We managed to find this dealer product brief buried within the ... http://autoclerks.com/2008/05/2009-toyota-tacoma-update-details-emerge-2009-toyota-tacoma/ Even though we vowed to crush Team Make:Way's Escort like a drained beercan beneath our hobnailed racing shoes (as the Lord Humungus would say about their car, what a puny plan!), the little slushbox-equipped Escort managed to evade the wrath of Odin and hang on for a respectable 33rd-place finish ... http://autoclerks.com/2008/05/huge-wing-eyeballs-propel-makeway-escort-to-33rd-place-lemons-finish-24-hours-of-lemons-altamont/ newVideoPlayer("firebirdcrash.flv", 494, 371,""); We've heard of this "Jonathan Schipper" before through his exploits slowly grinding scale models and throw-away IROC-Z's together. Now he's gone and mashed a Pontiac Firebird into a Pontiac Trans Am, both examples of sweet malaise goodness. True they may have been on the underpowered side when stock, ... http://autoclerks.com/2008/05/nooooo-two-sweet-pontiacs-destroyed-for-sake-of-art-novelties/ When WhatWouldJesseDo isn't working on his Datsun 411, Mini, Puma GT, or the Black Metal V8olvo, he's doing his day job across the Bay in San Francisco. That's a city in which most street-parked cars get scraped, bumped, and dinged with depressing regularity, yet plenty of cool old machinery still ... http://autoclerks.com/2008/05/saab-95-survives-san-francisco-streets-plus-bonus-lancia-down-on-the-street-bonus-edition/ Suzuki is clearly firing back at Ford and their Focus CC Black Edition with this, the Suzuki Swift Black and White edition. Nothing says automotive harmony like matching hatchbacks. We got the chance to drive a very pedestrian version of the 2008 Suzuki Swift a few weeks ago and had ... http://autoclerks.com/2008/05/look-to-the-swift-suzuki-brings-germans-together-with-black-and-white-editions-new-cars/ Looking at the array of biodiesel hybrids, ethanol hydrogen hybrids and fuel cells on display in Central Park this morning, the impression we got was GM is looking to these technologies as the future. All we could think was how much they should be the present. You see, this wasn't ... http://autoclerks.com/2008/05/gm-says-challenge-x-is-the-future-we-say-we-want-it-now-alternative-energy/