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• Banned in Australia

  
  Stinque — Authority: 510
  Jalopnik has their 10 Most Sexually Suggestive Car Ads up, and this one was banned in Australia: Amusing? Disturbing? You be the judge.
  15 hours ago

• Watch The ‘Chevy Volt Dance.’ If You Dare.

  
  Autopia — Authority: 720
  It wasn’t bad enough that someone in the General Motors marketing department, or its advertising agency, came up with a catchy song for the Chevrolet Volt . No, they had to come with a dance for the Chevrolet Volt. Think of the worst reject from that ridiculous So You Think You Can Dance? show and then ...
  1 day ago

• The Autopia Governator Edition WTF? Caption Contest

  
  Autopia — Authority: 720
  For all the attention Audi’s silent and sexy electric e-tron concept is getting, building the two-seat, four-motor EV apparently has been emasculating. What else could explain all the tough-guy posturing we’ve seen lately? Though the e-tron stole the limelight at the Frankfurt auto show was even sexier in person ...
  1 week ago

• 48 Years Ago: December 1961, Pt. 3

  
  Davelandblog — Authority: 128
  Before I delve into Tomorrowland, I realized I left one out from Town Square. No, this man isn’t checking his Blackberry! C’mon people, remember this is 1961! For all you fans of camel colored coats, this slide will drive you bananas—for the rest of us, please just look past him and enjoy the view of the ...
  1 week ago

• How Carmakers Play the Name Game

  
  Autopia — Authority: 720
  This week’s flap about Renault giving their new electric car a popular female first name piqued our interest in how cars get their names. From animal imagery to alphanumeric codes, a name is a car’s first opportunity to sell itself. It can become the stuff of legend or the butt of jokes. Typically, an ...
  1 week ago

• Cool Green Morning: Friday, December 4

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 534
  It was hard, so very hard — but we managed to put together a climate-email-controversy-free Cool Green Morning for you today , filled with birdfeeders that spur evolution and a Wright-Brothers moment for a solar plane. Enjoy your green weekend! That bird feeder you’re filling every week (or every day at our ...
  1 week ago

• Honda P-NUT Is a Little Nuts

  
  Autopia — Authority: 720
  LOS ANGELES — We’d like some of what Honda’s designers were smoking when they came up with the P-NUT. We swear we heard them giggling before rolling it out at the Los Angeles Auto Show. They said something about it being “a futuristic concept for an ultra-compact and sophisticated city coupe.” They said ...
  1 week ago

• Zoé To Renault: Don’t Steal My Name

  
  Autopia — Authority: 720
  Fearing their daughters will have to endure lifetimes of comparisons to an electric minicar, some French parents are outraged that Renault christened their latest concept Zoé . The London Daily Mail reports that Sébastien Mortreux, a parent who presumably either named his daughter Zoé or has far too much time ...
  2 weeks ago

• Jetman Ditches In The Atlantic

  
  Autopia — Authority: 720
  Yves Rossy, better known as the ‘Jetman,’ failed in his first attempt to make an intercontinental flight between Europe and Africa. After launching over Morocco, Rossy was heading for Spain over the Strait of Gibraltar when he disappeared from view on the live TV broadcast. Several minutes later the cameras found ...
  2 weeks ago

• Jet-Powered Ford Guns for 300 MPH

  
  Autopia — Authority: 720
  Joe Wilkins knew there was only one way to give his supercharged, alcohol-injected Hemi-engined hot rod more power: Put a jet engine in the trunk. “It started as a hobby and turned into a monster,” said Joe Wilkins, the motor madman behind what might be the wildest 1939 Ford ever built. He’s an inventor and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Gasoline Fumes May Fuel Road Rage

  
  Autopia — Authority: 720
  Paying through the nose to fill up the car is enough to send anyone into a rage, but it might be the fumes you’re inhaling while pumping gas that make you angry. Amal Kinawy of Cairo University found that rats exposed to gasoline fumes were more aggressive than those breathing clean air and more likely to show ...
  3 weeks ago

• Top Gear Builds a Volt of Its Own

  
  Autopia — Authority: 720
  There’s a contingent of greens out there fussing and fuming that General Motors (with its Chevrolet Volt), Nissan (with its Leaf) and everyone else in the auto industry is dragging its collective heels getting EVs and plug-in hybrids on the road. “How hard can it be?” they’ll say, demanding to know why these ...
  3 weeks ago

• Classic Polyester: April 1977, Part 3

  
  Davelandblog — Authority: 128
  Just a brief one today...still recovering from the weekend (which means a trip report will be coming soon). 3 great images from the Autopia; always rare to see photos from the actual "highway." Who wants to bother taking photos and drive at the same time?!? Just so I dont get called stingy today, Ill throw ...
  3 weeks ago

• Big Brother Zeros in on License Plates

  
  Autopia — Authority: 720
  The town council in Tiburon, a Marin County community just north of San Francisco, has unanimously voted to install license plate recording cameras in a bid to bring down crime. So what’s the story? Does the town have an unusually high level of violent crimes? Hardly. From 2001 to 2008, this community of less than ...
  3 weeks ago

• John Surtees Drives an EV Across the Channel

  
  Autopia — Authority: 720
  How cool is John Surtees? At 75 years old, the racing legend isn’t slowing down. The motorcycle and F1 champ decided it would be fun to drive a Ginetta electric vehicle through the English Channel Tunnel, or the Chunnel, as they so cleverly call it. Why? To mark the 15th anniversary of the Tunnel’s opening, of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Man Blames Planes For Divorce, Seeks $555 Million

  
  Autopia — Authority: 720
  Blame it on the planes isn’t the latest Milli Vanilli spoof, it’s one man’s $555 million claim that the local airport drove off his wife and kids. Stanley G. Hilton’s lawsuit blames everybody and everything shy of the rain, moon and stars for the end of his marriage. Given his record, we wouldn’t be ...
  3 weeks ago

• Something’s Fishy With That Waterlogged Veyron

  
  Autopia — Authority: 720
  The only thing that chafes our hides more than someone wrecking a $2 million Bugatti Veyron is the thought someone did it on purpose. We can’t say for sure, but it looks like that deep-sixed Veyron that everyone winced at last week might have been a publicity stunt. There is too much coincidence surrounding the ...
  4 weeks ago

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