Filed under: Etc., Marketing/Advertising, Videos
Car has listed what it considers ten of the “best, funniest, and cheesiest” UK car adverts. Those of us Stateside aren’t likely to have seen many of them, like that for the Austin Allegro — called “The new driving force from Austin” — but there’s enough old and new for everyone. […]
Filed under: Contests, Euro
The European car market is filled with all sorts of interesting models that we only wish we had Stateside, and every year our counterparts across the pond pick the best with the European Car of the Year awards. Last year Ford’s S-Max, the minivan that makes grocery runs exciting, won the citation, […]
Filed under: Sports/GTs, Euro, Renault
Renault is working on not one, but a whole line of new sportscars to add to its current line-up of hatchbacks and minivans. Our European brethren aren’t likely to see anything within the next three years - despite earlier rumors that a small roadster would be coming in 2009 - as […]
Filed under: Motorsports
Teams aren’t teams in Formula One, they’re constructors. It’s part of the definition that makes F1 what it is: each team builds their own cars. Engines can be obtained from a major manufacturer - though BMW, Renault, Honda and Toyota have joined Ferrari in doing it all in-house - but in theory, at […]
Filed under: Motorsports
If you’ve got your money on Prodrive making an unprecedented F1 debut next season, we’d recommend calling your bookie and changing your bet. The British racing consultancy was preparing to hit the grand prix circuit using equipment obtained through a deal with McLaren, but the agreement that was all but dotted and crossed […]
Filed under: Motorsports, Australia
The drivers after receiving traditional didgeridoos in Australia
Fans of open-wheel racing awaiting the results of today’s season-finale Brazilian Grand Prix had something to keep them busy in the meantime, as the results of the Champ Car race Down Under came in with this season’s champion one race early.
If you didn’t tape […]
Filed under: Motorsports, Hirings/Firings
History, they say, has a habit of repeating itself. That’s certainly the way things have been looking in recent years as some of the greatest racing names in motorsport history have been making a comeback. But instead of the legends squeezing their aging selves into new racing equipment like so many sardines, […]
Filed under: Euro, Hatchbacks, FIAT
Hot on the heels of the announced winner of EVO’s Car of the Year award comes the revelation from the bigger European Car of the Year, which bestowed the citation for 2008 to the impossibly charming Fiat 500. While EVO’s, like Motor Trend here, is awarded by one magazine, the European […]
Filed under: Gadgets, Etc., Toys
From time to time we’ve all been tempted to purchase that fake diploma from the endlessly circulating email, right? The last time I checked, though, they weren’t offering fake certificates from the Art Center College of Design, or the Academy of Art University. If you still held onto the dream of […]
Filed under: Etc., Euro, Tech, BMW
There’s a variety of flavors of in-car networking standards that corral the large number of embedded computers and nodes present in the modern automobile. BMW Research and Technology, an R&D division of BMW, has found Internet Protocol up to the tasks that the other standards currently perform. BMW engineers used […]
