The Smart ForTwo EV has made it through fleet testing and because of the popular response will now be available in limited numbers for public sale. It's still tiny and expensive, but now even slower!
In the classic Outer Limits episode- The Architects of Fear, an individual volunteers to be mutated into a horrific creature in the name of world peace. Today, Nice Price or Crack Pipe has his car.
MTV's "Nitro Circus" star and rally driver Travis Pastrana, along with co-driver Christian Edstrom, clocked a third win this season here at the Oregon Trail Rally situated in and around scenic, hippie-infested Portland.
I thought that finding a copy of Let's Call It Fiesta for a buck at my favorite teetering-walls-o-books used bookstore was a serious score, but bzr may have done even better with this find.
Allison Arieff of The New York Times’s By Design blog has a great post about inventor/author/cartoonist/former urban planner Steven M. Johnson, creator of many a car straight out of the Acme playbook.
Last month, James May bought his Significant Other a brown 1971 Triumph 2000 Saloon, because he appreciates "a proper girl in a terrible old car" and felt that she'd "see the cultural relevance of brown."
Ford's calling up winners of their Fiesta Movement contest, and we've learned former Jalopnik West Coast editor Davey G. Johnson snagged one along with our lovely little mired-in-the-D intern-turned-contributor Andy Didorosi. Congrats to both!...
Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! After seeing the Johnson Messenger CB Telephone, we're saying 10-4 to custom van projects!
Just as we suspected Friday, the 2009 Detroit Autorama Ridler Award was given to the builders and owner of the super-slick maroon hot rod called "Duecenberg."
So you took one look at those Detroit Autorama custom vans and you're ready to assemble a snazzed-up 60s Econoline, A100, or Sportvan, complete with Aztec/UFO/Knights airbrush mural. But don't forget the CB, good buddy!
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