Car News and Updates
1 Mar 2007
I have tried to imagine someone for whom the Lamborghini Gallardo would not be good enough. With the possible exception of the executive team at Ferrari, I can’t think of anyone. But if you happen to be that rare person, the Gallardo Superleggera is for you. Calling it an “uncompromisingly high-performance sports car” is a [...]
1 Mar 2007
In Wired News today, Tony Long brings you “today’s lameness du jour: the mercenary public parking space.” The object of his annoyance: SpotScout, a Boston startup with an auction system that lets drivers bid online for parking spaces private and public.
It’s the latter commodity that has Long all lathered up. In his view, moving public [...]
1 Mar 2007
When we were a junior-high-aged Jalopnik, a teacher of ours said that if we could identify every reference in Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire” by the next morning, we would be free from certain homework assignments for the rest of the year. We accomplished this feat. (Bear in mind that this was in [...]
1 Mar 2007
Toyota and Honda ruled while Detroit got shut out in this year’s Consumer Reports auto rankings. For the second year running, Japanese cars took first place in all ten categories in the annual roundup. Europe, too, took a hit vis à vis the Japanese models, with Mercedes-Benz finishing dead last for reliability.
The Los Angeles Times, [...]
1 Mar 2007
19 years after the murder of Mickey Thompson and his wife, Thompson’s former business partner, Michael Goodwin, has been sentenced to two consecutive life terms for the crime. Goodwin was convicted of first-degree murder for hiring bicycle-riding hitmen to kill Thompson at his home in guard-gated Bradbury, California, apparently over a business deal gone sour. [...]
1 Mar 2007
Man, after scoping the latest feat undertaken by six-year-old Aniket Chindak of Belgaum, India, winning the fast-skate race at Foothill Skate Inn back in 1983 seems pretty freaking worthless. Young Aniket limbo-skated under 57 parked Tata Sumos in 30 seconds for what’s apparently a new-world record in under-Sumo roller skating. He also regularly rskates 100km [...]
1 Mar 2007
According to Moscow Mayor Mayor Mayor Yuri “Not Gagarin” Luzhkov, motorists willing to navigate the city in diminutive, efficient vehicles should receive a bonus. What’s more, he’s willing to back it up with a fistful of dollars, suggesting “We should establish incentives for citizens who opt for small-size cars with electric and hybrid engines. I [...]
1 Mar 2007
Cops in Rialto, California have crushed two cars with stolen parts captured during an illegal street race. Using tactics developed by the San Diego PD for a program called Dragnet (paging Jack Webb, Jack Webb to the white courtesy telephone) designed to impede the progress of hoonage throughout Southern California. One more reason, we suppose [...]
1 Mar 2007
Yesterday’s painful changes haven’t stopped Ford’s board from blessing a $6 million stock option bonus for CEO Alan Mulally — only a cool million more than he was promised when he signed on last fall. Nor has it stopped the company from covering Ford Americas President Mark Fields’ weekly commute to his Florida home — [...]
1 Mar 2007
While we appreciate the varietal spice of life various regional laws give these United States, we’ve gotta admit that some laws — like the no-buttsex-in-Tejas law that was thankfully ruled unconstitutional, the death of the rolling 30-year smog exemption in California and the retarded sex-toy ban in Alabama — just seem like rather idiotic intrusions [...]