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Monday, 26 January 2009
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There have been countless attempts to translate the Ferrari spirit from four wheels to two, ranging from sport bikes to choppers and everything in between.
But this is the first we've seen with three wheels. That's right, in
case your eyes couldn't adjust from the endless see of crimson
contours, what you're looking at is a Ferrari trike.
Mirroring
the "styling" of a Scuderia Ferrari F1 car, this one-off trike was
spotted at the banzai Tokyo Auto Salon by the same people who brought
us the no-less-bonkers Lamborghini ATV.
Based around a 1.3-liter Suzuki Hayabusa engine and frame, this
(thankfully) unique example was built by Trike Japan in order to
showcase what they can do. We certainly hope the rest of their
portfolio is a bit more tasteful than this showpiece, but we won't be
holding our breath...
[ Source: autoblog.com Read The Full Article ]
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Monday, 26 January 2009
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When
you've poured gallons of sweat and stacks of cash into a beloved
project car, your heart gets crushed by Fate's hobnailed boot when you
come home to discover it's been totaled while parked.That's what happened to Bill, California Melee and 24 Hours Of LeMons veteran (and housemate of TheEastBayKid),
a couple weeks back. You see, Bill lives in the Laurel District of
Oakland, a pleasant neighborhood in a city that gets a mostly
undeserved bad rap from the rest of the country; however, much as I (a
former Oakland resident) love the place- it is true that it's a tough
town for cars. The OPD deals with matters more pressing than
traffic-law enforcement, and happy hour tends to be a 24/7 affair for
many Oaktown drivers. You're rolling the dice every time you park your
car on the street, and this time the dice came up snake-eyes for Bill's
'69 MGB-GT.
Your classic hit-and-run wreck, with the MG mashed into a tree and the
only clue left behind by the perp (probably behind the wheel of a
late-70s Pontiac Bonneville) a broken Olde English 800 40-dog, no doubt
dropped out the driver's window at the moment of impact. Bill hasn't
decided whether he wants to let sentimental value trump rational
thought and try to fix the car in a massive sheetmetal weld-a-thon, or
just pull all the snazzy aftermarket performance bits off it and start
over with another MGB. Check out Bill's blog to get the whole story.
[Bill's Buckets] [ Source: jalopnik.com Read The Full Article ]
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Monday, 26 January 2009
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Monday, 26 January 2009
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We got to show you a pretty nifty Ferrari-badged Hayabusa Trike Friday, but that wasn't the only exotic car cross-branding at the 2009 Tokyo Auto Salon. Check out these adorable Lamborghini Murcielago ATVs.
These little Lambo-bodied ATVs are marketed to the
more-money-than-brains crowd, but they sure do make us giggle. They
were created by Liberty Walk of Japanese Lamborghini tuning fame to match a couple of the cars they had on display at this year's Tokyo Auto Salon. Little else is known about them, but we're sure they'll end up in some rap video sooner than later.
  
[via carzi] [ Source: jalopnik.com Read The Full Article ]
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Monday, 26 January 2009
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Ford
won't be joining General Motors and Chrysler on any return trips to
Uncle Sam's Bailout Buffet. The automaker plans to stay in Dearborn and
cook dinner at home, so says CEO Alan Mulally, who told reporters at
the NADA convention, "We don't want to borrow any more money. We have
sufficient liquidity to fund our transformation plan, which means our
business is in a relatively good shape." While GM and Chrysler were
approved for over $17B in bailout bucks and are already well into the
cash pile, Mulally had instead requested access to a $9 billion line of
credit (you know, just in case). The difference: the feds have yet to
move on Ford's request...
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Monday, 26 January 2009
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Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
CNBC's Phil LeBeau discusses the news of Toyota replacing GM as the world's largest automaker ending the U.S. giant's 77-year run as the leader. (CNBC)
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Monday, 26 January 2009
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We've had four Nice Price verdicts in a row, with yesterday's 49 grand R63 AMG Benz being the latest. Can a ridiculously low-mile example of GM Malaise keep the run going?
The Chevy Vega
(and Canadian badge-engineered sibling, the Pontiac Astre) wasn't
exactly what you'd call a great car, what with the
iron-head/unlined-aluminum-block engine and miserable build quality,
but it sold in vast numbers during its 1971-77 production run. You'll
never see one today, unless it's a small-block-powered monster at the
dragstrip, and a tape-stripe-stravaganza Vega GT? Forget it! But hold
on there, Malaise Era historians- it turns out that a '77 Vega GT has been sitting for 32 years, window stickers and plastic wrap still intact, and it's for sale. 70- that's seven-zero-
miles on the odometer, and it's pretty much perfect. Why, it's even got
an 8-track player for your favorite Foghat tapes, and that option alone
cost $304 ($1,064 in 2009 dollars)! Sure, the Vega sucked, but that
just makes a time capsule like this all the more interesting…
but interesting enough to be worth shelling out $13,500? That stings,
but this thing must be the nicest Vega in the world. What do you say?
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Monday, 26 January 2009
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Monday, 26 January 2009
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 Harley-Davidson
is a company that has seen plenty of ups and downs over its 106-year
history, having survived the Great Depression after being the largest
motorcycle manufacturer in the world through the 1920s. We may not
quite be in another depression, but our current recession has caused
sales, profits and share prices to fall fast and Harley is digging in
for the long haul, announcing a plan to cut 1,100 jobs over the next
two years. That figure that represents 10% of the company's entire
workforce. More than half of those losses will be seen in the company's
home state of Wisconsin, with the remainder coming from facilities in
York, Pennsylvania, and Kansas City, Missouri. During the course of
this restructuring, the Motor Company will also be replacing Jim
Ziemer, the company's current chief executive. Sounds like a tough road
ahead.
[Source: AP via Google]
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Monday, 26 January 2009
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Monday, 26 January 2009
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("Test mule" for Toyota's 2010 plug-in hybrid as seen in Detroit; the new, third-generation 2010 Prius and the current model will be sold side-by-side at dealers as a sales defense against Honda's eagerly-awaited, all-new Insight hybrid).
 From the ever-increasing "promises kept" department: Edmunds.com reports that Ray LaHood, the former Illinois GOP congressman who was picked by President Obama to serve as Secretary of Transportation, told the Senate Commerce Committee this week that Mr. Obama "won't have to push me very hard" to get his Department of Transportation to increase corporate average fuel economy, the CAFE standards, beyond the 35 mpg level approved by Congress in 2007.
LaHood made the comment as he was promising the committee he'd do all he can to get the first fuel economy rules in place by April 1, 2009, the deadline for implementing the initial phase of the new CAFE standards for 2011 model year cars and trucks.
Automakers selling vehicles in the US must improve average fuel economy by 25 percent between the 2011 and 2015 model years, with the increase to 35 miles per gallon to come by the 2020 model year.
 George W. Bush, though, was so busy relaxing existing air pollution standards, opening public lands and offshore areas to oil drilling and granting some pardons as he left office that the development of any realistic enforcement plan for these CAFE regulations was left completely to the new administration.
(Barney in his lap, no shoulder harness; yep, he's a lawbreaker. To quote, of all people, Gerald Ford, "Our long national nightmare is over").
LaHood's appointment in a Democratic administration is keeping with Bush's appointment of former California Congressman Norman Yoshio Mineta, a Democrat, to the same Transportation Secretary position in his White House.
Three other things happened the past few days which I never thought I'd see:
For entire post: White House: Move up CAFE regs; Execs: Higher gas tax needed; Hybrid sales falter
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Saturday, 24 January 2009
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Sometimes it’s the obvious ideas that turn out the best. Roadsworth
takes the term “street art” literally, subverting the
messages of road markings with the addition of basic stencils. Here's a
gallery of his work. At first glance, it’d be easy to dismiss Roadsworth’s
art as that of a naïve socialist discontent and, indeed,
that’s how he got his start, painting anti-car messages in his
native Montreal. After his arrest in 2001 for vandalism, the art
evolved, developing at once a more subversive message and a more
sophisticated language. Instead of clichéd anti-car sentiments,
Roadsworth’s art rose to a new level, revealing hidden messages
from our subconscious in the lane markings, crosswalks and other
on-road symbols.
Pieces like “Shallow End” and “Deep End,” for instance, remind us of
the extreme risk involved with crossing a busy intersection that’s
become so everyday that its forgotten. Roadsworth’s art is so well
integrated into the infrastructure that it challenges our perceptions
of that infrastructure’s purpose, pedestrian crossings become fences,
containing our natural inclinations rather than permitting safe street
crossings. It’s the subtlety and integration of the art that makes it
so powerful.
  
[Roadsworth via MC24][ Source: jalopnik.com Read The Full Article ]
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