Jalopnik: austria

Purisme's Carbon Fiber Pipe Can Be Yours For Only $2700

Peter Orosz — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:30:00 EDT

Fancy a smoke in your super car? Austrian design shop, Purisme, has also got a letter opener, a yo-yo and a bracelet for sale—all for super car prices. Buy them in Vienna or order them online. [Purisme]

Austrian Uses VW Golf To Mooove Calves

Andrew Didorosi — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 13:30:00 EST

Shocked motorists have spotted an Austrian softie who uses his tiny VW to relocate his beloved calves wherever they might need to go.

DailyMail reports an unnamed Austrian farmer has been using a beloved Golf to transport some beloved calves. He even took steps to modify said hatchback to make it comfortable and accessible for their trips around the countryside.

Quoting the original article, "The unidentified farmer, from Kufstein district in Tyrol, insisted he 'acted out of love for his animals' as they would have been 'too cold' in an open-air trailer." Animal rights activists are raging over the prospect that someone would transport livestock in anything other than a government-approved animal trailer.

To calm the foaming mouths of the fur-happy lunatics, he agreed to "only transport young animals in the car that did not weigh more than 80 kilos." Happy now, Pamela?

[DailyMail]

Fiat Uno Racks Up Largest Parking Ticket Ever

Wes Siler — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 13:00:00 EST

A Fiat Uno belonging to a deported immigrant has been slapped with a $26,110 fine after being left in a short-term parking space in Austria for two years.

The Romanian citizen, now residing in France, was forced to abandon the crappy Fiat, likely worth less than $1,000, when immigration officials nabbed him and deported him out of the country. The car then sat in the space for two years thanks to a local law that bans the towing of vehicles not obstructing traffic. When officials tracked him down and asked him to pay the bill, the man understandably refused. The city now plans to declare the parking space a construction site, which will legally enable them to tow the car. Hooray for the efficiency of bureaucratic laws! [via Austrian Times]

Austrian Politician Jörg Haider Killed In Phaeton Crash, Driving Twice Speed Limit

Murilee Martin — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:00:00 EDT

Far-right politicians from Austria tend to get a lot of scrutiny from the rest of the world, for really obvious historical reasons, and Jörg Haider, long-time leader of Austria's nationalist Freedom Party, definitely made plenty of headlines. That's all over now, as the anti-immigrant Haider perished on Saturday when his 3-month-old VW Phaeton hit a concrete pillar in Klagenfort at 88 MPH, on a stretch of road with a 42 MPH speed limit. [Times of London]

60-Car Pileup On Austrian Autobahn

Ray Wert — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:30:00 EDT

The good folks at CarDomain were kind enough to point us to another example of vehicular destruction today. As if we hadn't already had our fill with that crushed Nissan GT-R in Malaysia and the toppled Genesis sedans. Maybe we're just starting to feel a little bit dangerously destructive these days. Who knows. Anyway, there was a 60-car pileup on a motorway near Seewalchen, Austria today. One dead, 30 injured. And look, there's video for all you sick fucks to enjoy. I'm going to go and open a new bottle of scotch. And no, not the good stuff — the real rot-gut, twist up your insides kind that you buy for cheap at the bodega down the street. Yeah, it's just that kind of a day. [MSNBC via CarDomain]

PCH, Yankenwagen Me, Krankenwagen Me Edition

Murilee Martin — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:30:00 EST

We've got a virtual tie in the Playboy Jimmy Versus Heap-O-Triumphs Choose Your Eternity poll, and that's just how we like it. To get such a split, we need to pick two vehicles that trigger roughly equivalent "I must have that!" and "get thee behind me, Satan!" reactions, and today we're shooting for that split with another episode of Ambulance Project Hell. We've had a pair of Project Car Hell Poster Children who achieved that lofty status via, respectively, a '66 Pontiac Ambulance and a '58 Plymouth Ambulance, so we know the ambulance love runs deep here...

These two PCH candidates arrived courtesy of two separate tipsters, and while the Official Tipster T-Shirt Obtainment Rules state that a tipster must send in two Hell Project suggestions that make it into this series, I'm going to go ahead and send out a shirt apiece here.

The German word for "ambulance" is "Krankenwagen." Krankenwagen! I already want my own Krankenwagen, if only for the name. But wait, there's more- it's an Opel Admiral! Believe it or not, a mere 450 Euros (and shipping from Austria) will obtain this beautiful 1972 Opel Admiral ambulance. Ach! I'm going to do a quick translation of the description, which I feel qualified to do in spite of not understanding German: Needs work. Lots of work. Now, before the distance and all the hard-to-get parts and everything else scare you away, just picture yourself rolling down your town's main drag in a restored Admiral Krankenwagen... with a blown small-block Chevy under the hood. Thanks- and a T-shirt- to Franzouse for the tip!

If you're shopping for vintage ambulances, it would be hard to beat a genuine Admiral Krankenwagen in the two most important Project Car Hell departments: coolness and impossibility. But we've got one here that just might achieve that goal- what would say if we told you where to get a 1949 Packard ambulance for just $2000? A genuine Yankenwagen? You'd just laugh, and then we'd say, no, really. And then you'd laugh some more, only with less force, and then you'd stay up all night thinking about that Packard and how much fun you'd have driving it around, and the next day you'd be on the phone to Puyallup (bonus points if you can pronounce it correctly) to make an offer. There's rust. There's a mystery engine in a crate. But you get that wonderfully vintage siren-and-red-lights setup and, well, just look at this thing! Cherry Bombs and fat tires are all it needs... plus some bodywork and probably a new interior and a few other things. Thanks and a T-shirt to Jimmy for the tip!

Chrysler Moving Assembly Of Chrysler 300 From Austria To Ontario, Also It'll Get A Diesel Engine

Ray Wert — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:30:00 EDT

The group soon-to-be-formerly the 'merican side of the German-American hybrid confirmed today they'll be moving production of the 300 series sedan from a Magna International owned plant in Graz, Austria to the Brampton, Ontario plant in 2010. The plan will push up the new generation of the model by one year so as to coincide with the production shift. Also, they'll be dropping $1.2 billion on vehicle development and retooling costs so the plant can build both left-hand and right-hand drive models — oh, and drop diesel CRD engines into them. Sounds like some torque-y fun if you ask us. [via thestar.com]

Let's Go Austrian: More News on the KTM Car

Davey G. Johnson — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 23:15:00 EDT

According to the Germans who blog about cars, Austrian bike firm KTM has solidified some details on their joint venture with Audi. Scheduled to go public in the spring of '07 (Geneva, perhaps?) the vehicle will be built in Mattighofen or Graz, and Dallara (who, of course, build the R10 chassis) is apparently one of the contractors involved. Sales will be aimed for 1,000 per year, which makes the vehicle super-nichey, and if KTM and Dallara are involved, probably superleggera as well.

Some News About The KTM Car [The German Car Blog]

Related:
Audi, KTM Partnering On New Vehicle [Internal]

3rd-Owner Austro-Daimler ADV

Davey G. Johnson — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:21:54 EST

Gary Kempton of Tallahassee, FL bought this 1925 Austro-Daimler dual-cowl phaeton from its second owner, a man who'd played in the barn where the car had been stored since prior to WWII. The story in and of itself is pretty incredible; more incredible is that the damn thing holds ten passengers. This, then, is what you would get if Ferdiand Porsche designed the E-250 using 1920s Austrian technology. Or something.

1925 Austro-Daimler ADV [AutoWeek]