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24 hours of lemons
This weekend it has been a major sport car show in Malmö in south of Sweden. Anyway. This tape was recorded after closing time when a Ferrari F50 was followed by some young twats in Beemers, Ricers and Porsches. SWEDES ARE HEARBY BANNED TO DRIVE ONE OF A KIND FERRARIS."We'd also point out that Eddie Griffith is really Swedish. For those about to smash, we salute you. (accident about four minutes into "twat driving") [Bilsport.se]
Star car spy photographer Brenda Priddy's caught the winter engineering and testing team of the German automaker Porsche with their pants down 'round the Arctic circle. Priddy claims you should ignore the Audis in the shots above as this is actually the winter testing facility for the brand all about the Bruce. Just think, if she's right — there's a serious amount of precision under those tarps. Anyone care to take a guess at what's going on under those pretty plastic shrouds? Full spy report from Priddy below the jump.
3:40 PM on Wed Feb 20 2008
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The Saab-loving conspiracy theorists still seem to think I've purposely excluded their favorite cars from this series; after all, in a city where there seems to be a Volvo 240 for every five citizens, wouldn't you expect to see a lot of Saabs as well? Well, no; in these parts, a Volvo in front of your house 25 years ago made a statement about your beliefs, while a Saab just said, uh... well, that you drove a Saab. Thus, old Saabs are scarce ('90 and newer ones are plentiful, of course), and it took me months just to find this somewhat boring '85. But now you suspicious Saab-o-philes can rejoice, because I've found a pretty straight 99 in Alameda's West End!
After the outpouring of love and frustration for the rectangular vehicles of Göteborg in the comments associated with yesterday's Volvo Valhalla post, it seemed only right to head to Scandinavia for today's projects. After all, it's been months since our last all-Swedish PCH. The Saab won that one, so let's see if Volvo can even up the score today!
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Remember when 77% of you voted to see early 200-series Volvos in this series? Well, your day has come! I remembered that poll the other day and set out looking for a good example of such a car. 25 seconds later, I found this '80 DL (yes, Saab lovers, Alameda has about five Volvo 200s per block... and just one old Saab on the whole island). I really wanted to shoot a 262C Bertone, but the only one I've seen in Alameda is parked in a driveway (with a blue tarp lashed over the roof) and thus ineligible for this series.
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It looks like the Sterling just wasn't able to dump as much weight on both sides of the hell/cool scale as the Impulse in yesterday's Choose Your Eternity poll, with the Isuzu vaporizing the Rover by a 4-to-1 vote-ratio landslide. Today we're going north for our cars. Way north. Yes, just like Yngwie on an airliner, you'll unleash the focking fury with either one of these fine Scandihoovian projects.
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In Detroit, it was 1969 OK, all across the USA. You had your Goats and Road Runners and vast landyachts and so on. But in Göteborg, far from being another year with nuttin' to do, 1969 was another year of Odin's heirs grinding out more slab-sided Swedish warriors to do battle with less sensible vehicular opponents. And you still see plenty of examples of the generation of Volvos that came between the Amazon and the all-radio-presets-on-NPR 200 series cars roaming the streets.
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