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Monday, October 13, 2008
Don't Screw Me!
New (to us) site alert! No, not the Alison Krauss with whipped cream site. No, not the Summer Glau literally terminates a chub site. It's a site that shows what folks paid for the cars they bought.
That at least gives you some idea of how well you should be able to negotiate. Here's a good 'un: 2008 Acura TL for $28k.
Go get 'em!
Referenced articleReal Car Tips: Real Car Tips (Thanks to Lifehacker for linky.)
Posted at 09:48 AM Comments (3)
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Scary Fail
OK, Cars.com came out with a list of "scary" features. And it's so incredibly fail that it should get its own category. Fail. That should be the category. And the lede for this bit would also go into the same category.
Seriously, you gotta be kidding us! Seats and windshield wipers are scary features? How about features that allows the police to control your car? Hey, you, weren't you at the rally about something the current government doesn't like? POW, accelerator limits car to 10 mph. Or, "Hey, that guys look italian. He must be in the mob. Turn on the microphone on in his car." That last one is courtesy of OnStar.
There are surely scary features in cars (here or soon-to-be-coming), but this Cars.com list didn't have one of 'em.
In unrelated news, we are proud to list our Top Two Sexiest Features of Cars! Cars! Cars!
One.
Two.
Referenced articleFrom Yahoo! Autos and Cars.com: Top 10 Scariest New Car Features
Posted at 11:09 AM Comments (1)
Sunday, September 28, 2008
The Race of Champions
Finally, a fun car story. We'd so love to be a part of this, but alas we have no:
Junker
$500 to fix junker up
Summer Glau
Anyway, thanks Mr. Alterman. That was a good read.
Referenced ArticleNY Times: When Life Hands You Lemons, Race Them
Posted at 10:47 AM in Car Fun, Summer Comments (3)
Monday, September 08, 2008
Bail Out
This is just horseshit. We made the vehicles that made us the most profit, didn't invest the moolah in anything but big and it backfired on us, save us. This just goes to show you there is no free market.
What's a good analogy to this story? Ah, how about... What if we sold tickets to our upcoming marriage to Alison Krauss, but she said no* but we didn't have money to refund the tickets because we used the money to buy a lot of viagra. A lot. See? Our "product" failed us so the govment has to bail us out. Does that analogy work? Mmm, Alison. She can restart our stalled chub anytime.
*Yeah, she'd say no. Please. We're so freakin' awesome, she couldn't say no. In fact, that one time she literally couldn't say no so no charges were filed! W00t!
Referenced articlesWSJ: Auto Executives to Seek Government Help
Posted at 07:56 PM in Alison, Car News Comments (9)
Saturday, August 02, 2008
Plug It In, Plug It In
While it may not happen in our lifetime (yeah, you, you old SOB you), it will certainly happen during the lifetimes of the children being born today: Electric cars will get most people from here to there.
And, really, there are no downsides to this. We'll still have road freedom, but we'll have no pollution from the operation of these vehicles. Our nation (and nearly all nations) will no longer be held hostage to those with the fuel needed. Because it will all come from the sun.
Meanwhile, we're busy working on a new sun-ray device that burns off clothes without harming the delish below.
Referenced article
AlterNet: Electric Cars Are the Key to Energy Independence
Posted at 02:55 PM in Alison, Alternative Fuels Comments (21)
Friday, August 01, 2008
Peetstop!
Sweet!
Sorry if this is old, we just came across it.
Posted at 11:35 PM in Car Fun Comments (0)
Thursday, July 31, 2008
More Tolls? He Hates These Tolls!
Can't any of us travel more than thirty feet without paying for another friggin' toll?
The Bush administration unveiled a plan to impose new tolls on freeways and encourage more private investment to finance road and mass-transit projects...Ha! Freeway! That's funny stuff right thar!
Between tolls and higher fuel prices, why is anyone driving at all anymore? If all this less driving is happening... think of the oil companies! The poor, poor oil companies. How will they survive?
Meanwhile, we cruised Brooklyn in a 2009 Dodge Challenger. If you see one pass by, you've seen the best part (as in, don't bother sitting inside). It does have an awesome rumble while idling. What's this have to do with anything? Well, we certainly used 86 gallons of fuel racing from one red light to the next. But we were the first ones there! That's right, sucka! First.
Referenced article
Wall Street Journal: Bush Calls for New Highway Tolls, More Private Funding of Roads
Posted at 09:54 PM in Car News Comments (3)
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Movie About Cars
No, not with Lightning McQueen and good ol' Mater, but a movie about a man and his battles with the auto industry.
About windshield wipers. Really.
Referenced article
Movie trailer for Flash of GeniusWashington Post: Accomplished, Frustrated Inventor Dies
Posted at 12:53 PM in Car Fun Comments (6)
Monday, July 28, 2008
Walkin
Eschaton makes a good point with his "Driving Less" post. Essentially, places that can be made more walkable, should be.
Posted at 10:28 AM in Alternative Fuels Comments (1)
Power Without The Plug
Thanks to researchers in Ohio, our waste heat might not be so wasted any more. Well, it's not ready yet, but the long-haired thinkers out in Oh Aych Ten have figured out something with something and then, boom, you gots yourself from power from garbage.
Yeah, we didn't get it either. But maybe, down the road, it means less moving-parts stuff in our cars!
Referenced article
ScienceDaily: New Material May Help Autos Turn Heat Into Electricity
Posted at 06:24 AM in Alternative Fuels, Car News Comments (0)
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Leases End
So you leased your SUV rather than buying it? Turns out that was a smart move. For you!
What's gonna happen when folks start turning in these SUVs? We'll tell you: pain. These SUVs are just going to sit and rot because no one's gonna want these gas gobblers. Even if gasoline drops by 25% (ha!), folks have learned their lessons and we'll never again return to the days of the casual SUV owner.
Is your lease coming to an end? Gonna buy the vehicle or just give it back? What would it take for you to but it?
Referenced article
BusinessWeek: Nobody Loves a Three-Year-Old SUV(from Eschaton)
Posted at 05:22 PM in Car News, Gasoline, SUV Comments (7)
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Nomondeo
So, big announcements from Ford today. Which of these is worse?
Ford posts $8.7 billion loss. For the quarter. 90-some days. That's about $100 million a day. About $4 million an hour. About $67,000 a minute.
Despite losses, Ford will not be bringing the beautiful Mondeo over from Europe.
Of course it's number 2. Look, let's say the Mondeo is a tremendous failure once it's for sale in the U.S. How would you be able to tell? Bring it!
Referenced article
Jalopnik: BREAKING! Ford Reports $8.7 Billion Net Loss For Second Quarter 2008, Bringing Six European Small Vehicles Stateside
Posted at 11:55 PM in Car News, Ford Comments (4)
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Bigger
Toyota got some mo bigga!
Toyota Motor sold nearly 300,000 more vehicles than General Motors in the first half of 2008 and appears to be on its way to ending G.M.'s 77-year reign as the world's largest automaker.Our guess is the rest of the year will play out the same way, regardless of how many incentives GM (and all of Detroit) offers up.
Referenced article
NY Times: Toyota Moves Ahead of G.M. in Auto Sales
Posted at 12:12 PM in Car Sales, GM, Toyota Comments (1)
Electricity, E-lec-tric-ity
Man, it's all plug in, all the time! Lately, anyway. This totally makes sense as every current hybrid sold is really a regular car first and a hybrid second (meaning it really relies on the old-style engine we all know and use the battery system -the hybridy part- as supplemental power). But we we're starting to see the opposite happen... and even cars that are fully electric.
In the GM article below, we wonder... are all the manufacturers talking and working together to make the connector bits universal? Will the Volt have the same plug bits as the Tesla Roadster? Or as the Electric Lightning? Would be a big drag to have to go to different charging stations based on the car you are driving.
Referenced articles
arstechnica: GM, utilities to develop plug-in stations for electric cars
engadget: Blighty's electro-supercar 2.0 uncloaked today
autobloggreen: Electric MINI will be in US customer hands in summer 2009! (Thanks to engadget for this link, too.)
Posted at 05:58 AM in Alternative Fuels, Car News, GM Comments (1)
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