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new york auto show

What Bentley Believes: 17-Page CO2 Manifesto Has Been Read

Bentley is refreshing. Their ultra-luxe, mega-horsepower sleds, favored rides of autocrats, royalty and rap tycoons, are such a specialized product that the Craftsmen of Crewe can pretty much reduce their whole climate-change/fuel-scarcity strategy to a question of customer relations. I promised I'd read the white paper on global warming etc. the company handed out at their New York Auto Show press conference yesterday—also available on Bentley's website—and now I have. Dry? To be sure. Wonky? Yep. But on the heels of the company's announcement at the Geneva Motor Show that it's going to seriously cut CO2 output by 2012, worth checking out. More »

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4:45 PM on Thu Mar 20 2008
By Matthew DeBord
670 views, 14 comments

Latest by Shapeshifter: @Rob P: Full electrics 4 life! Also... @ash78: I wonder when people will start paying attention to that... Presumably at some time after we in the US stop pretending China is our bestest friend, i suppose... more »

industry news

Wagoner Says G****l W*****g Not A Crock Of Something

Let's put our hands together for Rick Wagoner, the CEO and Chairman of General Motors, who just discovered how to clean up after his s**t-loving Vice-Chairman, "Maximum" Bob Lutz. It was exactly a month ago when we first told you about product czar "Maximum" Bob's claim that global warming was simply a crock of...you know...stuff and finally Wagoner is ready to touch on the topic. Wagoner told reporters in Washington that Lutz's comments about global warming "weren't coming out of the company." More »

5:05 PM on Wed Mar 12 2008
By Travis Hudson
1,023 views, 41 comments

Latest by Shprocket: @danio3834: anytime! Let's flood Ebay with $1-CO2-certificates. We can certify to have cracked down or beaten up or insulted or whatever a litre of CO2 for every certificate!We gonna be rich! RICH! And speaking about the sun: she and her sibblings more »

news

Bob Lutz on Global Warming: "Total Crock of Shit"

Agree or disagree with the sentiments of GM's product czar Bob Lutz, you have to respect him for his frankness. In our experience, it's fairly easy to identify a total crock of shit like global warming once you take into consideration the complex interactions of geophysics, global weather patterns and complex high atmosphere chemistry involved in climate change, which Lutz surely has. We're not here to make a statement on the science of climate change, and if Lutz wants to sell us shitboxes like the Cobalt and giant SUV's with mild hybrid systems stuffed into them all while flying his fighter jet around for shits and giggles we're fine with that. But then again, if the Vice Chairman of Global Product Development thinks this about climate change, it kind of makes a lot of GM's latest marketing a total crock of shit, too. [via D Magazine]

5:45 PM on Tue Feb 12 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
4,929 views, 203 comments

Latest by n/a: Everyone should check out this video made about Bob Lutz. It's downright hilarious and Bob Lutz should be absolutely ashamed that people are making video's like this about him!+ Watch video more »

millions and millions

So Easy, a Kid Could Do It

Flying cars that dart about on the collective power of midichlorians are still a few years out. One of the wicked easy things we can do in to conserve fuel in the meantime is check our tire pressure. This fact was not lost on Savannah Walters , who at nine years old heard that we waste four million gallons of fuel per day due to underinflated tires. She took it upon herself to start a crusade to show us how easy it is to save some fuel by checking our tire pressure. Tires will lose about a pound of pressure per month on their own, so check early and often. [Savannah Walters via Pumpemup.org]

2:00 PM on Fri Aug 3 2007
By Mike Bumbeck
325 views, 4 comments

Latest by lascauxcaveman: Deja who? more »

keeping up with the svenssons

Swedes Torn Between Burly Cars, Cool Earth

Swedes have long been accustomed to packing their berserker physiques and cases of aquavit into bulky, gas-swilling Volvo wagons and equally thirsty hot-rod Saabs when they hit the Scandinavian road, but that may have to change, according to this article in the Gray Lady. The rest of Yurp is getting all squinchy-faced over Sweden's love of carbon-crazed cars, laying some heavy guilt-trippage on the Swedes, and it may be only a matter of time before Sven och Agnetha are crammed into a new Mitsubishi Minicamino. Hmm... a retro-style Minicamino could be the answer to global warming! More »

3:30 PM on Fri Jul 6 2007
By Murilee Martin
353 views, 6 comments

Latest by danio3834: Stop the madness! more »

the revolutionary war was a brilliant idea

Europe Considers Banning High Performance Cars

Sweet George Washington. Looks like the green-toothed, cheese-eating surrender monkeys are saddling up to the hoon-hating Pope. Sorry to revert to silly stereotypes, but this is just lousy. European leaders are in talks with each other discussing the possibility of banning high-powered sports cars on the Continent (and in Great Britain). Why? Global warming. The metric they are working with is that any car capable of going 25% faster than the Euro-norm of 130 kph (about 80 mph) is producing too much CO2. That means that under the proposal, any car that can travel 100 mph will be banned come 2013. Casting aside our hard-won journalistic integrity for a moment, this legislation is so impossibly stupid our head hurts. We once got our old 1.8-liter Sentra shitbox up to 120 mph in Arizona. Luckily, even if this does become law, none of this nonsense will have any legal teeth in Germany (because Germans are awesome), and as Germans make up a large number of the EU members with votes (99 out of 785) hopefully they can beat talk some sense into their insane stuffy friends. Or at least vote early and often. For the record, Jalopnik votes no. – Jonny Lieberman More »

6:15 PM on Tue Jun 26 2007
By Jonny Lieberman
966 views, 41 comments

Latest by lascauxcaveman: @powerglide: I don't Jonny ever claimed to be that environmentally responsible, he's just 1) not trying to deny that global warming exists and 2) not trying to deny industrial and automotive emissions have something to do with it. I think all more »

commie plot or planet salvation?

CARB Looks To Ban Refrigerant Sales To Public

The California Air Resources Board, in a attempt to comply with the greenhouse gas reduction requirements of Schwarzenegger-signed AB 32, votes today on a possible ban of small cans of air-conditioner refrigerant containing HFC 134a aka R134a (i.e., the supposedly ozone-layer-friendly stuff that replaced good ol' Freon). Ozone layer or not, the stuff is considered a global warming-enhancing gas, and the CARB figures that only licensed mechanics should be allowed to do air-conditioner recharges. Another instance of freedom-hatin' California lawmakers pissing on the can-do spirit of the Wild West, or are they forward-looking environmentalists saving the planet from chuckleheads who leak 15 cans of refrigerant into the air during a long weekend of Pep Boys-enabled backyard repair work? You decide! – Murilee Martin More »

6:30 PM on Thu Jun 21 2007
By Murilee Martin
524 views, 17 comments

Latest by squablow: This is already illegal in Wisconsin, it's the only thing Wisconsin is stupid about. I have to bootleg it into the state whenever I'm somewhere else. Any A/C refill costs $300+ around here. Gay more »

shit from an old notebook

The Roar of the Masses Could Be Farts, Part 5: UK Encourages Less Meat Consumption

One of Los Jalops has been a vegetarian for nearly exactly twelve years now. At the time, he drove a V8 automobile. Twelve years later, he still drives a V8 automobile. That is to say, he's sort of a hypocrite, yet with the amount he actually drives said V8 automobile, coupled with his reduced appetite for methane-emitting agricultural beasts, he's pretty sure he's got the moral edge on rich people who slum in hybrids while tanking up once a week and dine early and often at Ruth's Chris. Apparently, a British government agency has decided that in the fight against climate change, the nation's citizenry should be gently pressured into eating fewer bangers and topping off their mash with a tad bit less butter. Needless to say, we're sure the cattle lobby in the UK is hopping mad. – Davey G. Johnson More »

4:45 PM on Fri Jun 1 2007
By Davey G. Johnson
269 views, 9 comments

Latest by Turboner: Meat is Murder. Davey, did you go vegan for Morissey? more »

so easy a kid can do it

Global Warming Ditty Raises Awareness, Shatters Glass

When we were in junior high we had an earth sciences teacher who taught us about carbon dioxide emissions, the greenhouse effect, and the rapidly approaching ice age. As Meatloaf bellowed out to Cher a little later - two out of three ain't bad. What us kids didn't have back then were video cameras, a bunch of guitars, an audience, or a band called the Blübirds. Let them eat jellybeans indeed. – Mike Bumbeck More »

2:30 PM on Wed May 30 2007
By Mike Bumbeck
403 views, 12 comments

blowhard 500

El Presidente Congratulates Milka Duno


El Presidente Chavez says he is happy Venezuelan driver Milka Duno and Citgo will run the Indy 500, even though no gasoline will be involved. The surprise is that Al Gore or any other American politician didn't beat El Presidente to this aggrandizement political punch, considering Indy cars have been running on alternative fuel of the alcohol kind since the '60s. This year the traditional methanol has been replaced by a home-brewed ethanol special corn blend. Milk will still be served to the winner on Sunday, who El Presidente says will be Milka. – Mike Bumbeck More »

5:00 PM on Thu May 24 2007
By Mike Bumbeck
336 views, 5 comments

Latest by pjsammy: I fear for everybody's safety. the irl wanker-filled fields have been getting weaker and weaker. That fact that ms milka is there just makes things worse. hopefully she doesn't kill anybody more »

news

Autobahn Speed Limits Now, Demands EU Environment Overlord

European Union Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper on Sunday that screaming autobahn speed jockeys "waste energy in a completely
senseless way and burden the climate" and called for unspecified speed limits as part of European efforts to reduce carbon emissions. For the most part, German leadfeet lack enthusiasm. – Murilee Martin More »

9:00 AM on Mon Mar 12 2007
By Murilee Martin
2,006 views, 14 comments

news

Go, Go, Mister Show! Group Wants to Shut Down Chicago Auto Show

Guess we'd better make other plans for this week, lest we run afoul of one pro-bicycle group that aims to shut down the Chicago auto show. The group, AutoShowShutdown.org recently launched a web parody of the Chicago show's site, on which they provided counterpoint to the show site's content. The group even rebuffed a cease-and-desist letter from the show's organizers, with the support of online free-speech advocates the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Their plan is to protest the show's "egregious display of automobile glorification" this coming Saturday, the first of the show's public days at Chicago's McCormick Place. Kind of reminds us of ourselves when we were wee lads protesting arrogant roadway bikers. Of course the only slogan we could come up with at the time was "We won't pedal, death to false metal!" Right, we didn't quit our day jobs. – Mike Spinelli
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10:49 AM on Mon Feb 5 2007
By Mike Spinelli
256 views, 21 comments

Latest by squablow: Quote eltonito "I'm an occasional stop sign/redlight runner and I ride in a semi-aggressive manner as to force motorists to yield to me." I'll be sure to keep an extra flat screwdriver in my glovebox to dig your dead ass out more »

news

The LA Times Calls Lockyer's Lawsuit Bluff

We just checked out an op-ed piece in the LAT and we have to agree — it's simply not sporting for California AG Bill Lockyer to sue automakers for obeying the law. Every new car sold by the major automakers in California meets CARB emissions standards, so how can an agent of the state sue people for obeying the law? It sets a ridiculous precedent. Matters such as this need to be handled via the legislature, not by tying up the courts, which have more pressing matters to attend to. We expected more from you, Bill. Punto basta. More »

11:15 PM on Fri Sep 22 2006
By Davey G. Johnson
81 views, 6 comments

Latest by wohho: Um, Rubber, the states can block or legislate whatever they want - it's a federal system. What they can't do is block physics - co2 and water are the result of all organic combustion. It's convenient that california only has more »