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The modern boarding pass is a mess, so it's great to see a major airline like Delta put so much thought into their new one, launching today. It's clearer, easier to read, and no longer looks like splatter art done with random bits of information. More »
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Remember that time you'd just barely survived a US Airways flight into Atlanta, fought your way through a crowded hellscape of angry travelers, and then had to drag your bags to your car only to see some pampered Delta customer get into a brand new Porsche? You weren't hallucinating. More »
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Picking up strangers while traveling can be thrilling, but in the 21st century United States, there's no worse pickup line than "Have you ever wondered if someone could get something on the plane they weren't supposed to?" Meet that guy. More »
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A Delta Airlines pilot on his first flight over the Pacific had to declare an emergency to land a 767 following the 9.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Japan ten days ago. Here is his first-hand account. UPDATE More »
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A Delta Airlines flight from Detroit to Phoenix on Thursday had to make an emergency landing in Colorado Springs due to engine failure. Some 225 passengers were forced to exit via the escape slides, and one kept his camera running. More »
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A passenger on Delta Flight #1404 from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City told us a first class passenger, described as "swarthy," was yanked off the plane at landing by security after "erratic behavior" during the flight. UPDATE BELOW. More »
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Former Northwest Airlines Capt. John Hansen flew the airline's Boeing 747 route from Detroit to Toyko for years. In 2002, the plane tried to kill him and 400 passengers. This is the never-before published story of how he saved them. More »
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This is the Delta Wing, a concept angling to be the new IndyCar race. It's lighter, less expensive to run, and only has 300HP. It also looks like the Batmobile merged with a land-speed racer and a rocket ship. Updated. More »
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So, so wrong. And yet so very right. Needs Repsol colors like nobody's business. $135k, a trip to Italy, and it's yours. [Autoblog.nl] More »
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This is Down On The Street Bonus Edition, where we check out interesting street-parked cars located in places other than the Island That Rust Forgot. Top Gear honored the Delta Integrale last weekend, and now it's our turn! More »
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Put aside for a moment that the one-wheel-in-front, three-wheeled car setup is inherently unstable, because when a car like the 1948 Davis Delta has this much wacky style, staying wheels-down is highly over rated. More »
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For today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe we have an Italian car that was never an official immigrant to the land of the freedom fries, but one that probably slid across the border sideways. More »
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Finally, our long national nightmare of proboscis-toting Chevrolet Uplanders is nearly over, as these spy photos reveal its replacement, the Chevrolet Tacuma. Hopefully that name is just a placeholder, as naming a minivan after a direct competitor's mid-sized truck would seem confusing. Other than that, thank the stars, as this people hauler actually looks like it has a normal shape. Check out the rear doors though — they're hinged at the front, so this one does ingress old-timey style like the first-gen Honda Odyssey. More »
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Hey Lancia, welcome to 2006! It's good to see you finally decided to approach and embrace Second Life, the virtual world game thing. The Italian Fiat subsidiary will be launching the Delta sedan in Second Life one day prior to its official unveiled at the Geneva Auto Show. More »
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The Deutschland 4x4 tuners at delta4x4 have taken on the Jeep Grand Cherokee for the Essen Motor Show, building out the big Jeep mainstay into the Delta DUNE Project, a 499 horsepower desert racer. With a 0-60 time of less than five seconds, Delta's taken the SRT8 to a whole new level. On the exterior, the DUNE has been lifted by just under four inches, but given a wedge shape with the new front spoiler lowering the clearance by about two inches, and it's riding on custom 23 inch Elements IV wheels. And we mustn't forget the spice-colored coating, for yes, it is the Kwisatz Haderach. Full press release after the jump. More »
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This past weekend, Lancia revealed a concept car that could signal the Fiat entry-luxury brand's return to relevance, at a place where relevance is measured one still shot at a time. It's the Lancia Delta HPE concept, and its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival introduced Hollywood's disinterested glitterati to the chisled shape of Lancias to come. The midsized five-door sedan was inspired by the far less radically designed Lancia Beta HPE (wither, Gamma?) of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The company says the Delta diverts from the basic shapes of old by staking out a styling direction that nods only slightly toward previous Lancias. The concept is designed to be a luxurious long-distance runner with an emphasis on quality of life, providing copious interior room, lots of greenhouse glass and a Windows Mobile computing system that includes USB and Bluetooth connections for phones and MP3 players. Ugly or avant guarde — you make the call. More »
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Fiat Auto's Lancia — makers of luxurious oddballs like the Thesis (and the previous Pope's one-off Dialogos Giubileo) — will reportedly wipe the cosmoline off a new concept at the Biennale del Cinema di Venezia next week. The image above is likely a speculative rendering of what the concept may look like, though how the final design will translate into the company's new Delta HPE model, due in 2008, is anyone's guess. At the least, the concept will introduce a design language that, for the first time in half a decade, won't be influenced by farm animals. More »
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