May 31
If you had any doubt about the possibility of a General Motors bankruptcy, this should pretty much seal the deal for you. Six top GM executives have liquidated their holdings in an effort to get while the getting is, well, awful. So what did Bob Lutz get for his shares?For Bob’s 81,360 shares [...]
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May 31
Driving the Chevrolet HHR sent your humble author into a massive 1980s flashback; no drugs required. The Japanese car supply/demand imbalance during Paula Abdul?s Laker Girl days meant any Japanese model could find a market, regardless of merit. One of the least meretricious was the Isuzu I-Mark; a car so relentlessly non-descript that boredom was primary safety hazard while driving one. Twenty years later, that particular strain of car flu, automobilis mediocritas, has mutated and infected the
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May 31
I didn’t want any stock in Chrysler, but now I have some. So do you. The government is buying up Chrysler stock with our money, and without our permission. The constitution doesn’t give the president the right to be the forced stockbroker to every citizen in the country, does it? Maybe [...]
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May 31
Can anyone recognize this junkyard find?
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May 31
There are people who watch NASCAR and Formula 1 and WRC just for the crashes, and then there are well-adjusted people who just want to see a clean, quality, high speed race. There are people who enjoy high speed races, and there are people who enjoy high speed races and death. And [...]
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May 31
I don’t know of any helmet/bike gear manufacturers that advertise as tenaciously as Icon. I can’t think of any that advertise at all actually, at least not the way Icon does. Arai and Shoei rely mostly on word of mouth and their high quality to sell products, but Icon goes all out. [...]
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May 31
Jeremy Clarkson certainly has a way with words. One of my personal favorites was in reference to the new Caparo T1. “When this thing goes on sale, there isn’t going to be a ditch in the land or a hedge row that isn’t full of Premiereship footballers who are broken and on fire.” [...]
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May 31
Ladies and Gentlemen, children of all ages: we give you the first Chevy Volt jingle, courtesy of Sarah Spiegel (shown here interviewing former CEO Rick Wagoner) and gm-volt.com! Listen to the ditty at the link, for lyrics hit the jump.Once I had a guzzler,I could not afford,It cost me more every day.Once I had a [...]
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May 31
Yesterday we covered some foreign car engines - misfits, sentenced the junkyard but commandeered for experimental aircraft service as their only hope for redemption. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you [...]
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May 31
It’s not news per se. After all, we knew that Wilmington was on GM’s “endangered plant” list. But the idea that GM will somehow attract a buyer for a factory that builds a dead-in-the-water sportscar is laughable. After all, Chrysler still hasn’t found a home for its Viper nameplate, a brand that carries far more [...]
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