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- Plymouth Road Runner concept
- Honda ranked most gas friendly automaker in U.S.
- iPhone app for your car (not really)
- "Sopranos'" Paulie can offer your Mini "protection"
- Best and worst holiday road trip vehicles
- Frictionator -- jet powered pickup truck
- Ferrari California vs. gravel
- Huzzah to General Motors
- Bugatti Veyron KO'd by pelican
- BMW 5-Series Sedan
- SEMA auto show leftovers
- Challenger 1320
- Chrysler recall rear-wheel-drive cars for dangerous wheels
- Great American Truck Racing
- Indian firm set to build electric cars in NY
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Plymouth Road Runner concept
For sale on eBay right now is what appears to be a one-off Plymouth Road Runner concept to be built on a 2009 Challenger platform and designed by Michael Leonhard.
It looks like the winning bidder will be taken through the whole building experience, ending with the finished car's formal presentation at the LA Auto Show in 2010.
Why can't Chrysler build something with this kind of energy on a smaller, more affordable platform? Because they stink and I hate them. Hows about a Duster concept from a '10 Sebring?
Buy it now $950,000
The guy's got 100% positive feedback.
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Honda ranked most gas friendly automaker in U.S.
The Environmental Protection Agency has ranked the nine automakers that sell full lineups in the U.S. according to fuel-efficiency.
Honda averaging 23.6 miles per gallon across its 2009 vehicles, closely trailed by Hyundai (23.4 mpg) and Toyota (23.2 mpg). The 2009 average across all vehicles sold is 21.1 mpg.>>PHOTOS: Green cars for 2010 and beyond
For the model year that's just started, Honda launched the 2010 Honda Insight dedicated hybrid in February, which will be followed by the 2011 Honda CR-Z hybrid two-seat sports coupe and then by a future Honda Fit Hybrid as well.Honda had a fleetwide 23.6 mpg fuel economy average in the 2009 model year. Hyundai had 23.4 mpg. Toyota Motor Corp., which was tied for first in 2007, slipped to third with 23.2 mpg.
Volkswagen AG was fourth at 22.3 mpg; while Nissan Motor Co. and BMW AG were tied for fifth at 21.6 mpg.
Detroit's Big Three finished in the last three spots. Ford Motor Co. was in seventh with a 20.5 mpg; General Motors Co. was in eighth at 19.9 mpg; and Chrysler was last at 18.7 mpg.
Tags: Fuel Efficiency, Green
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iPhone app for your car (not really)
Engineers at Texas-based National Instruments have finally found a safe and practical way to drive a car with the help of an iPhone.
They're working to make the world a better place. I guess.
Tags: iPhone, Car, National Instruments
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"Sopranos'" Paulie can offer your Mini "protection"
Check out this new ad campaign from Mini. It features one of the all-time potentially clichéd punchlines, yet somehow manages to be fairly funny. The credit for that goes entirely to the "Soprano's'" Paulie.
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Frictionator -- jet powered pickup truck
Have you ever wondered what happens when you strap a 7000 horse-power General Electric J85 Jet Engine (with a 200mph top speed) to a Ford F650 pick up truck? You have? Well today is your lucky day.
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Ferrari California vs. gravel
Ferrari Chairman Luca di Montezemolo took his California into the gravel trap at the Ferrari world finals with F1 drivers Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa in the back.
Maybe with the extra weight over the back wheels he thought... I don't know. I don't think race cars are any good on those gravel traps.
But why leave the track? Rumor has it that a brown pelican ...
Tags: Ferrari California, Luca di Montezemolo, Fernando Alonso, Felipe Massa
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Huzzah to General Motors
They only lost $1.2 billion from when they went bankrupt to September.
I wonder how Howie Long's gonna tout this in their next commercial?
Let's celebrate!
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Best and worst holiday road trip vehicles
The guys over at the familycarguide.com blog put together two lists of the best and worst cars to take on long family road trips.
The "Best" list has some head-scratchers, like rating the notoriously cramped VW GTI as one of the best road trip cars, while the "Worst" list is made up of obvious choices -- I'm surprised they left off the the Pontiac Aztek.Take a look at familycarguide.com list below, and let us know what you think.
Five Best Cars for Long Family Holiday Road Trips
1. Honda CR-V
2. VW GTI 4-Door
3. Hyundai Elantra Touring
4. BMW 3-Series
5. Toyota Highlander
Five Worst Cars for Holiday Road Trips
1. Mazda Miata
2. Chevy Aveo
3. Smart ForTwo
4. Toyota Sequoia
5. Ford F-150
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Bugatti Veyron KO'd by pelican
The Bugatti Veryon is one sexy car, trust me I know. No matter what light its sitting in, whose sitting in it, where it is...uh, okay, maybe it looses some of its shine if it's sitting in three feet of salt water.
News repots are surfacing that that a man drove a Bugatti Veyron, a $1.6 million car, into a lagoon in Texas after avoiding a low-flying pelican.
According to The Galveston County Daily News, the driver says he was checking out real estate, when the pelican swooped into his view:
The man jerked the wheel, dropped his cellphone and the car’s front tire left the frontage road and entered a muddy patch, which foiled his attempt to maneuver away from the lagoon.
The Veyron’s powerful engine gurgled like an outboard motor for about 15 minutes before it died.Take note that this is his account of what happened. If you take a look at the video below, you can see that the wing was deployed, a mechanism that only comes out when the car is doing speeds above 120 mph to keep it stable. Mmhmm...
>> PHOTOS: Click here to see photos of recent car accidents on LITags: Bugatti Veyron, crash, super car, speed
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BMW 5-Series Sedan
BMW has this artsy kinetic sculpture on display at their museum in Germany to show of the roofline of the new 5 Series sedan. Needless to say, they had a lot of (you know what) to pull this off (and some string).
If the installation is operated by pressing button on the wall, it’s probably already broken.
The actual car will be revealed Nov. 23.
Tags: BMW 5-Series
