May 2009
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Automotive Casualties: A Look Back
As the automotive industry continues to get trampled by the current recession, Wired Magazine takes a look at the vehicular casualties of this and other difficult economic times.
all photos via Wired
PONTIAC (1926-2010). Once creator of the impossibly cool GTO (below) and the Firebird, a slight design degeneration in recent years with models like the Aztec and the Vibe, did not help already...
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Drum Roll Please...
This week’s caption contest garnered some goodness.
In 3rd Place, Alison’s
“Lion 1: Hows the spare lookin’? This tire is totally dead. I think we may have to remove the hubcap. Hand me the lug nut wrench.
Lion 2: Wait… I wasn’t listening. I was too busy staring at dinner.”
In 2nd Place, defender2’s
“In what was later described as a...
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Caption Day is Here Again!
Back in the office after the glorious long weekend. Your brain is not ready for work. Take a mental break and feast your eyes upon TODAY’S PHOTOGRAPH, which comes to us via Jalopnik…it’s a good one. Let the captioning begin!
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“When lonely days turn to lonely nights, you take a trip to the city lights and...”
– Supertramp (Breakfast in America), 1979
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LEGO My, Er, GTO!
Girls didn’t really play with LEGOs when I was a kid. No matter for me. I had inherited a big cookie tin of the little building blocks from the son of a family friend. While I was never very good at making things from them, I was always fascinated by the LEGO creations that I would behold at the LEGO Shop at FAO Schwarz. Hours spent toiling to create comparable creations that amounted...
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When FWD Emails Rock...
Here are some creative takes on the SMART car:
(photos via cyanatrendland.com)
The Smorvette
The Smorsche
The Smaudi A3 AWD
The Smerari
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Daimler to Acquire an Interest in Tesla
image via Tesla Motors
You read that right! For more intel, check this out: Daimler Acquire Stake in Tesla.
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Friday Has Arrived Again...
…time to announce a winner to this week’s Caption Contest!
In THIRD place, speeedy with “Breezy Wheelchairs: hold onto your hair as you fly in our chair!”
In SECOND place, me gamez with “FROGGER 2190 v3.987”
and the WINNER is Paul with “Los Angeles under attack by electric spaghetti.”
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Prius: Harmony Commercial - VERY Successful...
THIS IS OUTRAGEOUSLY COOL. What an INCREDIBLE ad the new Prius ad is. Watch the first video to see the commercial. Watch the second video to see the “making of” the commercial.
The new Prius ad is advertising at its best. Capitalizing on the internet age, Saatchi and Saatchi created for Toyota an ad that is such a visual fascination, it begs for viral distribution. This is the future of...
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It's Tuesday...Let's Do This Caption Thing
TODAY’S PHOTOGRAPH comes to us via bowjenk’s photostream on Flickr:
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Say YES to the Saleen S7
photo via cargurus.com
If you’ve been following URR on Twitter then you know that we report all unusual, rare, or awesome vehicle sightings that we encounter throughout our travels. In New York City, Aston Martin, Maserati, Lamborghini, Maybach, and Bentley/Rolls sightings have become all too commonplace. Down in South Florida, where I tend to visit at least a few times a year to visit...
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Holy Shelby Daytona Coupe Le Mans Edition!
image via uncrate.com
Behold this exquisite “modern day take on the classic racer” (uncrate).
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Gossip Girl Revs My Engine.
photo via: gossipgirlinsider.com
Thank God for Gossip Girl, seriously. Mondays are rescued by this indulgent, hour-long, not-so-guilty-anymore pleasure.
Blair Waldorf’s dynamite one liners, Dan Humphrey’s brooding adolescent intellectualism, and Chuck Bass’ outrageous wardrobe are impeccably complemented by the New York cityscape. Existing thoroughly outside of reality,...
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Victory Friday Has Come Once More
This week’s photograph, the mangled automobile, brought on 11 comments…
In THIRD place, anonymous with ”Pictured above is the wreckage of the 1977 Chevrolet Impala Station Wagon used by daredevil Kelly Knieval in her recent failed attempt to jump the Verrazzano Narrows in New York City.”
In SECOND place, Ze Artist with ”A preview of the upcoming exhibit at New...
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Super Cars Keyed and Egged Outside of Paris Hilton... →
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1947 Nissan Tama - Early Electric Car
photo via carbodydesign.com
It is utterly mind-blowing that the technology for electric vehicles has existed for so long and has gone un-honed and un-promoted for all this time. Meet the Nissan Tama, an electric car from — yes, you read that right — 1947. Developed in the wake of the WWII, the Tama was introduced at a time when oil was hard to come by. So, if the technology has...
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“Take to the highway won’t you lend me your name? Your way and my way seem...”
– James Taylor (Sweet Baby James), 1970
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HYPERMILING - Tuning to Maximize Gas Mileage
(for more pamphlet photos, click here)
While the online car forums take repeated jabs at the print magazines, it is hard to dispute the enjoyment gleaned from picking up an issue of Car & Driver, Automobile Magazine, Motor Trend and flipping through the actual pages stopping as articles or pictures catch your eye.
Yesterday, while combing through June 2009’s Automobile Magazine, I...
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Tuesday = Caption Day
TODAY’S PHOTOGRAPH comes to us via photographer, Nick Albertson:
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Take a HAHA Break Today
If your day could use a little pick-me-up, then I’d strongly recommend checking out this video clip, graciously posted at jalopnik.com (if at work, you might want to turn your screen so that no one can see it as the vid is pretty NSFW). Take a HAHA Break.
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What Do a Skoda Fabia and an Aston Martin Vanquish...
photos via walyou.com
I’ve said it before an I will say it again: there is something about the automobile that lends itself so well to high art.
Sometimes it’s the untouched, off the assembly-line, vehicle itself in a classic blue, red, yellow, black, silver, etc paint job (for instance: the SLR McLaren Roadster or theShelby Cobra) that is a work of art. In other cases,...
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Victory Friday Has Arrived Again...
This week, the caption photo took a turn towards the more pensive. The captions it elicited were nevertheless humorous. Thanks to everyone who participated. Here are this week’s results:
In THIRD place, Alison with “Anyone have a scissor? I my shirt got stuck in my door…”
In SECOND place, Anna with “What’s worse..the fact that I locked my keys inside my...
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Homage to the American Auto Industry
While the US auto industry finds itself in shambles, URR would like to acknowledge some of the classic vehicles that have defined the the American automotive landscape.
Observe…
The 1949 Mercury Chopped Top (photo via classyauto.com):
The 1956 Cadillac Seville (photo via libertysoftware):
1958 Chrysler 300D (photo via www.milkmandan.org):
1965 Shelby Mustang...
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Old School Concept Car: The 1980 Citroen Karin
Wondering how the automotive designers of 1980 perceived the future? Look no further than the Citroen Karin, which showed at the 1980 Paris Salon.
Photos via: ISO50 blog
Photo via www.citroenet.org.uk
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Time to...Create-A-Caption!
This week’s PHOTOGRAPH comes to us from photographer, Benjamin Donaldson:
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Meet the Zoomia
Meet the Zoomia, a collapsible bicycle that becomes a backpack. Driven by levers, the bike folds in about two seconds and can be easily stashed in a locker.
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GM: The Government Is in Charge (BusinessWeek,... →
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When Pontiac Meant Muscle (New York Times,... →
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Pontiac: The End of an Era
From “A Life Selling Pontiacs, and Feeling Sold Out”, published in The New York Times (5/4/2009):
…Arnold Pontiac pretty much says it all.
The dealership sits exactly where the Arnold family began a car business back in 1916: on the corner of North Main and East Pike in the pit-stop Western Pennsylvania town of Houston, right next to the First Presbyterian Church, where...
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You Gotta Play to Win!
Thanks to everyone who participated in this week’s caption contest. The results are as follows:
In Third Place, we have Seth’s “Recession Special: Chicken Festival Beauty Queens on sale at Big Lots!”
In Second Place, we have Paul’s “Courtney Deaton crowned Queen of the World Chicken Festival after eating the competition.”
And this week’s WINNER...