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Honda Looks To Follow GM By Fueling Hydrogen Hopes With Hollywood Hype

Matt Hardigree — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:00:00 EDT

Honda's hoping to snag some love from the Hollywood hype machine for their new green machine, the hydrogen fuel-cell-powered FCX Clarity. Honda's producing 200 of the fuel cell vehicles for distribution to celebrities and other Hollywood luminaries to build buzz for the 73 MPG technological wonder. True, these drivers may not need the fuel efficiency as they drive around with their poodles to pick up their grande skim latte, but whatever, they're influential. Wait a second — why does this sound so similar?

Probably because it's the same distribution plan GM's using for their own Chevy Equinox hydrogen fuel cell-powered game-changer. But while the General got a six-month head start on the hype-building, Honda's got one thing they don't have — an attractive vehicle. Yeah, it's the little things. Don't cry GM — there, there — you'll win one of these days. Hey, look on the bright side — when's the Chevy Volt coming out again? 2010? Oh. Well, keep trying. [NYtimes]

Commenter Of The Day: David Spade Keeps Showing Up Edition

Matt Hardigree — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:20:00 EDT

Today Mark "My Bimmer's Like A Shark Fin" Arnold featured some video from Garage 419 of Top Gear America's new host Tanner Foust doing some serious drifting, leading to even more discussion of Top Gear America than we thought possible. Is this a sign of shows to come? Just ask Bento:

"Tonight on Top Gear America, Adam Tests the new Corvette ZR1, Tanner races a Mustang Shelby KR against a man in a rocket powered Segway, Eric Strommer teaches us how to Febreeze our Hybrids after delivering homemade Rumaki to your BFFs Pampered Chef Party....and the Stiggette takes the new Challenger R/T on our track, tehn kicks Strommer in nuts.....but first, David Spade in our resonably priced Aveo 5"

Works for us, though why does David Spade in cars keep happening. Is this a new meme?

[Photo: RLD]

Commenter Of The Day: Weekend Update Edition

Matt Hardigree — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:40:00 EDT

In our opinion, Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update" was never better than in the early 1990's. In particular, there were three comedians that we were particularly fond of when they appeared late on saturday nights. The first was A. Whitney Brown, who almost no one has heard of in the last 10 years. He had a bit called "The Big Picture" and he made jokes like "Bombs are now smarter than the average high school student, at least they can find Kuwait." The second is Chris Rock, who made a name for himself on Weekend Update with quips like "I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot..." Finally, there's David Spade.

To his credit, since we've had lots of fun at his expense in the David Spade + Challenger "Caption This," Spade was hilarious when he was doing "The Hollywood Minute." We particularly liked when he held up a picture of Eddie Murphy and said "Look kids, a falling star... make a wish." Those were the days. Now Chris Rock has an incredibly successful franchise spanning mediums, David Spade is on a TV show that hasn't been canceled and A. Whitney Brown is, well, he's not in rehab as far as we know. So things could be worse. But he was a celeb seat-filler at an automaker's event and we have to take a whack at him. And as often happens, Ash was the first in and manages to drop a classic right from the beginning.

Hey...David Spade...my grandmother called, she wants her seating position back.

Sure, it's a low-hanging fruit. But it's a delicious low-hanging fruit.

Caption This Celebrity-Infused Challenger Picture: David Spade Edition

Matt Hardigree — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:10:00 EDT

Oh David Spade, if only we could go back in time to the 90's and Weekend Update so you could make fun of yourself so our commenters won't have to in the comments below. [Flickr via RLD]

FM Radio + Mullet = '69 Camaro SS

Matthew DeBord — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:30:00 EDT

Here's a competition that warms our heart. 93.1 Jack FM, which we listen to when we can't find any decent Cool Jazz on the radio in L.A., is mimicking the NCAA basketball tourney and sponsoring their own version of bracketville, featuring awesome mullets. The finest mullet in all the land will win a '69 Camaro SS.

The details for March Mullet Madness entry are available here. Hurry up, as the deadline is this Friday. And do read the mullet classification guide, which is pretty dang funny and kinda says it all, and also shows us The Clooney when he was a Kentucky redneck, before he transformed himself into Cary Grant and decamped for Lake Como.