February 23rd, 2012 by Matt Hardigree received Comments Off
Tesla Motors' response to this morning's revelation that
Tesla Roadsters carry a devastating design problem that could lead to the cars becoming "bricked" — i.e. so drained of battery power they are unusable and require a $40,000 replacement — has been to insinuate that the problem was with the owners and not the car.
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Tags: battery power, battery problem, car, cars, mdash, morning, raquo, replacement, revelation, Roadsters, Smear, Tesla, Tesla Motors, Whistleblower
Posted in bricking, elon musk, Emails, Exclusive, Max Drucker, Tesla, Tesla Bricking, Tesla Motors, Tesla Roadster, Top | Comments Off
February 22nd, 2012 by Patrick Frawley received Comments Off
Decades of news reports and whispered rumors about El Salvador have left Americans with a less-than-positive image of the small Central American nation. What doesn't get reported, and what Alex Roy discovered, is the truth: it's a beautiful, hospitable (and well-armed) nation with a fascinating car culture.
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Tags: alex, car, Car Culture, central american nation, culture, decades, Drive, el salvador, image, nation, nbsp, news, news reports, positive image, raquo, truth, video
Posted in el salvador, Porsche, Volkswagen | Comments Off
February 22nd, 2012 by Matt Hardigree received Comments Off
In honor of our Americana-bent today I'm going to feature reader
Ferli's photograph of the dashboard from a 1956 Cadillac DeVille. But that shot wasn't taken in the United States, but in Ferli's hometown of Maracaibo, Venezuela. Long live the boat.
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Tags: 1956 cadillac, americana, Americana-bent, boat, Cadillac, cadillac deville, dashboard, DeVille, hometown, honor, Long, maracaibo venezuela, photograph, porn, raquo, today, wallpaper
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February 22nd, 2012 by Patrick Frawley received Comments Off
The world is full of compromises that actually work really, really well. Consider the sports sedan, with its combination of speed and space. Or the iPhone in its phone/camera/music player/other stuff hyperconveneince. Or the venerable Swiss Army knife, a right-sized collection of tools that all work pretty damn well.
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Tags: Army, camera, collection, compromises, COTD, iPhone, Knife, music, music player, phone, player, speed, Sports, swiss army knife, work
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February 22nd, 2012 by Raphael Orlove received Comments Off
Someone recently filed a
patent application for a four-door pillarless version of the
Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG coupe. Yes, you read that right. Even more interesting: Mercedes isn't denying it's their patent.
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Tags: amg mercedes, application, Benz, Coupe, door, Four, Mercedes, mercedes benz, patent, patent application, raquo, sls, someone, version
Posted in amg, Four Door Mercedes SLS AMG, Four Door SLS, Mercedes, mercedes sls, Mercedes SLS AMG, Over The Back Fence, sls, sls amg, spy photos, Top | Comments Off
February 22nd, 2012 by Jason Torchinsky received Comments Off
Aggressive plastic surgery to give one the appearance of youth often ends up looking just wrong. Like what you would get if you texted an alien instructions on what a pretty young person would look like. The elements are there– smooth, unwrinkled skin, prominent cheekbones, full lips– but the end result is usually pretty damn creepy. What's really amazing is that this rule applies to cars as well as people. They even call them "facelifts" on cars, too.
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Tags: Aggressive, appearance, Automotive, car design, cars, cheekbones, creepy, elements, end result, facelifts, lips, person, plastic, plastic surgery, raquo, result, skin, young person, youth
Posted in Car Design, Falcon, Ford, Joan Rivers, LOLCars, Top, WTF Cars | Comments Off
February 22nd, 2012 by Raphael Orlove received Comments Off
Mercedes teased us with a glimpse of the
2013 Mercedes SL63 AMG yesterday at the company's F1 car launch, and now they're giving the AMG convertible the full press treatment. Look at it cradling these studio drivers with back-pulsing seats and a twin-turbo V8.
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Tags: amg mercedes, car, f1, glimpse, Launch, Lover, mercedes benz, Overweight, Press, raquo, studio, studio drivers, treatment, twin turbo v8, Yesterday
Posted in 2013 Mercedes SL63 AMG, amg, Mercedes, mercedes benz sl63 amg, mercedes sl63, sl63, sl63 amg | Comments Off
February 22nd, 2012 by Peter Orosz received Comments Off
Space training is not all about mad afternoons in aerotrims and learning how to operate a can of
Space Coke. On some days, it’s about taking off your spacesuit and kicking it in hammocks in a birch forest.
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Tags: afternoons, birch, birch forest, Coke, Cosmonauts, forest, hammocks, killer, raquo, rsquo, spacesuit, Time, training
Posted in Bertalan Farkas, soyuz, Soyuz 36, Spacelopnik, Valery Kubasov | Comments Off
February 22nd, 2012 by Raphael Orlove received Comments Off
This is the new Audi A3, leaked on the same day as its northern competition,
the 2013 Volvo V40. Get a look at its clean lines and orange interior before all your pre-med buddies see them in the dealership.
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Tags: Audi, audi a3, buddies, Competition, Day, dealership, Germany, Got, look, new audi a3, orange, pre med, raquo, Talent, Volvo, volvo v40
Posted in 2012 Geneva Motor Show, 2013 audi a3, A3, Audi, audi a3 | Comments Off
February 22nd, 2012 by Jason Torchinsky received Comments Off
You know what's great? This. This is great. This site, cars, the Internet, the whole damn thing. Skeptical? Good. I'm glad you're skeptical, because it's going to give me genuine joy to take your skepticism out back and spank it, right in front of all its stupid friends. How? With this:
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COTD: Swiss Army Knife Edition [Commenter Of The D...
February 22nd, 2012 by Patrick Frawley received Comments OffTags: Army, camera, collection, compromises, COTD, iPhone, Knife, music, music player, phone, player, speed, Sports, swiss army knife, work
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