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Keeping junk cars OK if limits are set | detnews.com | The Detroit News Dear Tom and Ray: My boyfriend is a great guy but is prone to procrastination or so his family has warned me. It's come to my attention, as I try to find a spot to park when I visit his home, that he is accumulating LOTS of cars. Here's the inventory of vehicles: a VW bus, two Saabs, an Isuzu Rodeo, a Subaru Forester, his Subaru Legacy, an engine for the Rodeo sitting in the garage and a BMW R1100RT motorcycle largely disassembled for a transmission repair in the garage. All of the cars in the driveway... Article added: 2009-01-07 09:36:15 Article Views Rating: 208
Organic Racing Car An interesting idea came to the heads of a team of designers in England. They have decided to create a racing car built from natural materials that runs on waste products. Formula 3 car is mostly made out of recycled carbon fiber and runs on vegetable oil and chocolate waste. Some features of the car come from famous brands: 2.0-liter turbodiesel engine is from BMW, chassis from Lola, brakes from AP Racing and suspension from Koni. However, there have been a lot of work done toward making the WorldFirst... Article added: 2009-05-25 05:23:19 Article Views Rating: 208
Njection and Garmin partner to identify speed traps Njection is a website for guys like us. In addition to their forums and picture resources, they have compiled a database of more than 50,000 speed traps worldwide -- areas with high radar use and speed cameras -- that works with Microsoft Live Maps. Njection is teaming up with Garmin, a leading manufacturer of GPS, to allow drivers to download and display their speed trap database information on portable navigation units. The Speed Trap-enhanced Garmin portable GPS units will be a great companion on a... Article added: 2008-03-28 05:33:57 Article Views Rating: 207
Auto briefs TOKYO -- Toyota Motor Corp. denied on Wednesday it had received any funding from the Japanese government to develop its hit Prius gas-electric hybrid car. Japan's top automaker rejected a March 24 Business Week report that quoted Jim Press, vice chairman and president of Chrysler LLC and a former board member at Toyota, as saying, "The Japanese government paid for 100 percent of the development of the battery and hybrid system that went into the Toyota Prius." Press worked for 37 years at Toyota... Article added: 2008-04-03 08:04:46 Article Views Rating: 207
'57 Heaven museum (rest in) peace | detnews.com | The Detroit News BRANSON, Mo . -- It's 1957: The sky over Flint, Mich., glows at night from the spark-showering assembly lines. At Ford's River Rouge Complex in Dearborn, the hammering goes on day and night. Corvettes get fuel injection. Chryslers get tinsel-bright tail fins big enough for Sputnik to see. The Detroit Lions win the NFL championship. Motor City is firing on all cylinders. That was then, and this is now, and now -- as most everyone knows -- is the most desperate moment in the history of American... Article added: 2009-01-26 06:38:07 Article Views Rating: 207
Corvette ZR1seen Lapping the Nurburgring Low 7:40's in Damp Conditions After months of seeing the 2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 sitting on a stand at auto shows, we can finally bring you video of the 620-horsepower supercar in action — and you won't be disappointed. Shot on the Nürburgring test track in Germany, the engineers behind the wheel of the most powerful Corvette ever were flogging it hard and we have the lap times to prove it.According to our shooters on the ground, the Corvette ZR1 was turning in lap times in the low 7:40s, a pace that puts it right up there... Article added: 2008-04-11 08:37:27 Article Views Rating: 206
Auto Tuning: Branew 370Z The 2009 Tokyo Auto Salon is going to present the tuned up Nissan 370Z next week. The car was upgraded by the Japanese tuner, Branew that has just finished its work on Nissan GT-R for the 2008 SEMA Auto Show. The 2009 Nissan 370Z has been well done from the beginning. You could tell the auto manufacturer did a lot of work on it comparing to the previous 350Z. It received a wider wheelbase which is 100.4 inches and became lighter by 95 pounds. The car has six-speed manual transmission and runs on... Article added: 2009-01-03 09:19:49 Article Views Rating: 205
Sneak peek: 2011 F-250 Super Duty | detnews.com | The Detroit News The 2011 Super Duty is expected to receive a major styling refresh, similar to the extent of the 2008 model year update. The current blue oval heavy-dutys took their exterior inspiration from the mighty Ford F-350 Tonka concept that debuted at the 2002 Detroit auto show. The practice round for the 2011 model appears to be the bold Ford F-250 Super Chief Concept, first shown at the 2006 Detroit auto show. The current Super Duty's hallmark side nostrils appear to have vanished, replaced by distinctive... Article added: 2009-02-25 06:22:49 Article Views Rating: 205
Dangerous car repossessions rise in the United States | detnews.com | The Detroit News HALSELL, Ala. -- Alone in his mobile home off a winding dirt road, Jimmy Tanks heard a commotion at 2:30 a.m. just outside his bedroom window: Somebody was messing with his car. The 67-year-old railroad retiree grabbed a gun, walked out the back door and confronted not a thief but a repo man and two helpers trying to tow off the Chrysler Sebring. Shots were fired, and Tanks wound up dead, a bullet in his chest. The man who came to repossess the car, Kenneth Alvin Smith, is awaiting trial on a murder... Article added: 2009-02-27 15:55:35 Article Views Rating: 205
New York 2008: NYC oddities and side splitters We were extremely busy while trying to cover the snot out of the New York Auto Show this past week at the Jacob Javits Center. Even when we were running across the show floor to make a press conference and get a good seat, we still had our fingers on the trigger of our many DSLR cameras. At times we caught some interesting and downright funny things that just didn't fit into any other gallery except one devote to the odd and slightly hilarious. Check them out in the gallery below, complete with captions... Article added: 2008-03-22 19:54:38 Article Views Rating: 204 |
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