Jalopnik: dirt

Guess That Rally Car: 100 Acre Wood Edition

Andrew Didorosi — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:20:00 EST

It's bright red, loud and generally makes the greenies unhappy. No, it's not Rush Limbaugh; it's a rally car! Submit your guesses inside for fame and glory.

Here's an easy one for you, folks. We considered zooming it in on just the fender and making you search paint codes to up the ante, but that's no fun. Here's a hint: You'd have to be batshit insane to rally one of these. After a short chat with the genial driver and crew, we can confirm that they are indeed crazy.

The answer will be revealed once our 100 Acre Wood mega-gallery goes live. In the meantime, throw out your best guesses below. Keep an eye on our RallyAmerica Tag for further dirtysport updates.

VW Jumps On Dirt Car Art Bandwagon With Touareg Ad

Travis Hudson — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:00:00 EDT

Volkswagen, always being one with the hip kids across the Internet, has jumped on one of the popular Internet trends from a couple years back: dirt car art. When "wash me" was too dull, artists like Scott Wade began taking the dirt-coated windows and creating some pretty spectacular designs and now Volkswagen has done the same (or at least simulated it with Photoshop wizardry) with the latest ad for the Touareg.

This ad jumps on the whole Touareg as a off-road and ourdoorsy kind of a vehicle by having a dirt and mud design that looks like a forest scene with mountain backdrop. Not too shabby, VW advertising firm, not too shabby. let's just hope no one hits the rear wiper button and starts a mudslide. [Neatorama]

Jalopnik Gets Dirty With Nascar Tonight!

Ray Wert — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:00:00 EDT

This afternoon I'll be taking a drive down to Rossburg, Ohio, the home of the Tony Stewart-owned Eldora Speedway, for an evening of late model stock car dirt racing action. Eldora's a local track that turns into a boomtown each year for the "Dream Week" — a multi-day extravaganza of mud culminating in Saturday's "Dream," a feature race that's basically the biggest thing around in the world of late-model dirt track racing. But we won't be there for the "Dream" race this Saturday, because there's already more than enough outlets around covering the real racing. Instead we'll just be there for tonight's annual Nascar charity 30-lap dirt race called the "Prelude To The Dream." See how they've done that — they've appended "Dream" with "Prelude." Aren't those Nascar boys smart? Anyway, we'll be down there in the mud this evening live-blogging Nascar racers Bill Elliott, Jeff Gordon, Bobby Labonte, track-owner Tony Stewart join up with other auto racing stars such as Juan Pablo Montoya and even drag racers Ron Capps and Cruz Pedregon. The last two might actually have the same turning-is-trouble problem as the Nascar folks — especially if they decide to run the race clockwise tonight. So check back here at the Prelude To The Dream tag throughout the evening and into the night as we'll be bringing you fresh and muddy coverage straight from the track. – Ray Wert

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