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We’re still years off from the truly sci-fi heads-up displays (HUD) that we see in so many movies, but we’re not that many years off. GM’s latest advance in the field shows what can be done with the entire windshield as a screen using transparent phosphors and ultra-violet lasers together with cameras, sensors and some [...]
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If you’re looking for a technological bonanza with an inexplicable 10-into-3 exhaust system, there’s only one answer: the 2012 Lexus LFA. But you’d better come packing, because the $375,000 Lexus supercar will run you $12,398.44 per month for a 24-month lease. But you have to pay the total of $297,562.56 up front as one lump [...]
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Racy, mean and even more performance-focused, the Corvette Z06 Carbon is the latest special-edition model to hit the street. Last week we brought you the first images and details on the 2011 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 Carbon Limited Edition, and today GM has released a new set of images that show the car off in even [...]
Carrying a passenger on a scooter reduces performance, makes cornering tricky and looks ridiculous. Leave it to the Japanese to turn it into a competitive sport.
This event is called the Osu Rider’s Cup and it appears to take place several times a year on a go-kart track. Don’t be fooled by the relatively slow speeds, [...]
Omar Ramos-Lopez was fired from his job at a Texas car dealership, so he got even. All of the company’s cars was equipped with an ignition interrupter controlled over the internet, so he went online and remotely disabled them.
The Texas Auto Center, where Omar had been employed, installs a system in vehicles it sells to [...]
Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton officially unveiled the new McLaren MP4-12C earlier today at the ribbon-cutting of McLaren’s new production center.
In 14 months, they’ll start production of 1200 units of the MP4-12C. We were also told this morning by sources at McLaren they plan on producing a range of rear-engined two-seater sports cars. They also [...]
At a BMW press conference, Dr. Norbert Reithofer has dropped a dab-of-oppo-less bomb of an unorthodox Bavarian future. Mein Gott!
Buried in a longer speech about BMW’s plans for the next decade, almost as an afterthough following his update on Mini’s successes, this is the full text of Reithofer’s vision:
In the future, we will generate growth [...]
Thanks to a craptastically-configured auction, a member of the ChallengerTalk forums snagged a steal-of-a-deal on a usually-goes-for-$45K Dodge Challenger SRT8 for just $29,100. Now the Signal Hill, CA car dealer’s trying to back out of the deal.
It feels to us like car dealers just don’t get the internet in general and the rules of eBay [...]
Nissan Leaf – Click above for high-res image gallery
Interest in, and “pre-orders” for, the Nissan Leaf remains high, but a report from the Japanese newspaper the Mainichi Shimbun might put a damper on things. Apparently, the price for the all-electric car in Japan will be somewhere between 3.5 million and 4 million yen, which [...]
Lease-only Lexus LFA – Click above for high-res image gallery
The rich are very different from you and we, now more than ever. First off, we don’t have the mental fortitude for jumping through all of the hoops that Lexus is making potential LFA customers limbo beneath. Let alone the cash. Thing is, the rigamarole involved [...]
Everyone makes mistakes. Sometimes, when you’re doing fifteen different things at once and talking on the phone and trying to make sure you’re doing enough work to keep your job afloat, you miss things. Information slips through the cracks. Thankfully, because this is the Internet, there are people ?? oh holy mouse with flowers, are [...]
So, uh, this is a little… yeah, we can’t make any jokes. Some of them are too easy, some are too stupid, and some are just too mean. But we have five words for you: You must watch this. Now.
A brief sampling of items found in the above video:
Enthusiasm
Vibrating senior citizens
Magic clothes
A metallic-green Chevrolet Cavalier [...]
Here’s a fascinating old video called “Give Yourself the Green Light.” Put together by GM’s PR wing in 1954, it advocates public spending on bigger and better roads. Certainly self-serving, but also interesting. Careful, it’s 22 minutes long.
Sure, GM had had interest in getting better and faster roads under the tires of its products, but [...]
McLaren MP4-12C – Click above for high-res image gallery
At a press conference held at its technology center in the UK this morning, McLaren Automotive officially launched itself into existence as a real, honest-to-goodness automaker. McLaren Automotive chairman Ron Dennis introduced the new MP4-12C by reminding the audience that since McLaren entered Formula One competition [...]
Kia Forte Koup with “R” package – Click above for high-res image gallery
In our initial review of the Kia Forte Koup, we were very impressed with the car’s overall style and levels of standard equipment, but we wished that the car were a bit more potent on the street. One remedy for that is [...]
