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• You Can’t Get the Whale Penis Leather Seats After All

  
  Autopia — Authority: 731
  What’s the world coming to when you can get your $1.45 million bulletproof SUV with gold trim, a ridiculously expensive Vertu cell phone and three bottles of premium vodka but you can’t get the whale penis skin interior? We have environmentalists and Pamela Anderson to thank for this. This bizarre story starts ...
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• Wilcraft Puts Floating ATVs On Ice

  
  Autopia — Authority: 731
  Listen up, ice anglers and hunters (and people who rescue them): The amphibious vehicle of your dreams has arrived. It’s called the Wilcraft , and it’s a mashup of an ATV and the Mars Rover that floats, keeps you toasty warm and tops out at 20 mph. Remember those 134 or so ice fishermen who had to be rescued on ...
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• Five Car-Related Clubs We Wish Existed [Car Culture]

  
  Jalopnik — Authority: 736
  Occasionally, the world just doesnt give you what you need. Like these five car-related clubs that arent out there yet. Feel the need to start a local chapter? Thank us later. Name: No, Speed Racer, No Motto: "To Boldly Slow…Where No Man Has Wanted to Slow Before." Club Principles: A support group for ...
  2 days ago

• Its not just sidewalks and money, spatial form and density influence the propensity to walk

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 498
  One of the encouragement programs out there is based on the Bogota Ciclovia, when streets are closed to cars for a day on the weekend and programs promoting walking, health, and bicycling are offered. I find these programs very interesting, even if DCs first version a couple months ago, held in a park miles away from ...
  2 days ago

• James Dean Still Dead, But Highway He Died On To Become Safer [Car Culture]

  
  Jalopnik — Authority: 736
  Californias infamous State Route 46, otherwise known as "Blood Alley," is slated for its first safety updates in over a decade. After an extended funding battle, Caltrans will break ground on improvements today. Rest in peace, little bastard. [ Bakersfield.com ] Photo Credit: Wikipedia
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• Surveying political candidates on their transportation behaviors

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 498
  According to " Transit riders movement " in the Boston Globe , a coalition of groups asked candidates for Boston City Council a number of pointed questions on mobility, and created a website with the results for each office. BOSTON CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATES TRANSPORTATION SURVEY 1. What is the most unsafe ...
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• Save The Planet — And Your Skin — With the Renault Spa Car

  
  Autopia — Authority: 731
  If there’s anything the French hate more than gas-guzzling Family Trucksters, it’s bad skin. It is therefore with much amusement but little surprise that we learned that the interior Renault’s Zoe Z.E. electric car concept was designed in partnership with cosmetics manufacturer Biotherm. Hinting at a production ...
  3 days ago

• Welcome…

  
  Greg Williams — Authority: 106
  It was time to polish up the appearance of the site a bit, so a few things have changed. That’s a speed-kitted Triumph T100 up there. I’m still at work fixing up some of the archived posts, which have funny little ? marks peppered throughout. But, now that you’re here, take a moment to cruise through the ...
  6 days ago

• Financial needs for road maintenance and improvement

  
  Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space — Authority: 498
  In my planning job-project, I am interacting a fair amount with various representatives from the Maryland State Highway Administration. On the way to a field meeting yesterday, we were discussing monies for road improvements, transit, public participation, and the like. he mentioned that earlier in the year there ...
  6 days ago

• High Octane, High Art From Mini

  
  Autopia — Authority: 731
  Mini is looking to gain a space on the coffee tables of artsy gearheads the world over this holiday season. A new book depicts their iconic subcompacts repainted in ways that sure beat any of the exteriors we’ve dreamed up on the Mini website. Titled “ Wash Me ,” the compilation of photos turns each Mini into ...
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• A Two-Wheeled Homage to Steve McQueen

  
  Autopia — Authority: 731
  Beyond starring in some awesome movies, Steve McQueen raced a Porsche, rode a Triumph and wore a Monaco. However tenuously those things might be related, Triumph and Tag Heuer mashed them up in the motorcycle you see here. The Bonneville-Heuer commemorates the 50th anniversary of the iconic Bonneville motorcycle ...
  6 days ago

• WTF? Ferrari Enzo Voted One of the Ugliest of All

  
  Autopia — Authority: 731
  The Ferrari Enzo is an amazing piece of engineering from one of the most storied names in racing. The million-dollar ride is named for the patriarch and founder of Ferrari, and it was the yardstick by which supercars were measured when it appeared in 2002. Its flawless function dictated an amazing F-1 inspired form. ...
  1 week ago

• Hello, Where is Detroit? [Car Culture]

  
  Jalopnik — Authority: 736
  Yes, the US auto industry has seen better days but is it really justified to leave the entire city of Detroit off a map? I am not much of a mail person, with one exception: I tend to mark my travels around the world with a single postcard sent to my maternal grandmother. Most of them make it to her house in ...
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• La-Z-Boy Kills Motorized ‘La-Z-Boy’ Auction

  
  Autopia — Authority: 731
  The eBay auction for that infamous motorized “La-Z-Boy” came to an end faster than a speeding recliner because of a catfight over the name La-Z-Boy. But never fear — the incredibly awesome machine is up for sale once again. The company that makes chairs beloved by lazy boys everywhere took exception to police ...
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• Vintage Citi Golf print adverts

  
  The Wheel Deal — Authority: 124
  Digging through the Volkswagen archives, I found these old Citi Golf print adverts from the ’80s. Filled with a whack load more text than today’s print ads, these pop-culture gems also feature hair-sprayed models who – what with their tuxedos, jumpsuits and slicked back hair – look like they’ve just all ...
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• Aston Martin DB2 breaks the bank

  
  The Wheel Deal — Authority: 124
  This mint Aston Martin DB2 Team Car set a new auction record after it was sold for a staggering £550 000 at RM Auctions’ London this week. The biggest sale of the evening, however, was a 2006 Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR Roadster, the only right-hand drive example built, achieving £616 000, followed closely by a ...
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• Disregard for the safety of others

  
  Communications From Elsewhere — Authority: 400
  In my previous post , I wondered what it took to get someone convicted of vehicular homicide or assault, if they weren’t drunk or high when they committed the crime. I found one example, a guy who drove with his windows fogged over to the extent that he didn’t see someone in a crosswalk. I posited that driving ...
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• Best looking race car ever

  
  The Wheel Deal — Authority: 124
  I don’t know about you but I think the silver Mercedes-Benz C11 has to be the most attractive racing car ever built. A combatant of the epic Group C era that saw the prototyped likes of Porsche, Nissan and Jaguar hit speeds of up to 407km/h down Le Mans’ Mulsanne Straight, the C11 won all [...]Related posts: ...
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• GM’s Bob Lutz Takes Jalopnik to School

  
  Autopia — Authority: 731
  It was age before beauty at Monticello Motor Club in New York, where 77-year-old Bob Lutz took Jalopnik’s Wes Siler to school in a Cadillac CTS-V. A few weeks ago, GM’s vice chairman and chief rabble-rouser challenged anyone, in any car, to a race so GM could show how good the 556-horsepower supercharged super ...
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• Infamous Motorized La-Z-Boy Hits eBay

  
  Autopia — Authority: 731
  The case of Minnesota’s motorized La-Z-Boy Lounger just keeps getting stranger, with the cops deciding to give you a chance to put the machine in your driveway. Dennis LeRoy Anderson, 62, rigged his La-Z-Boy with an eight horsepower lawnmower engine. Then he installed a stereo, headlights and a cup holder before ...
  2 weeks ago

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