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BMW GINA Light Visionary Model revealed {Autoblog}
Jun 11th 2008 12:40AM Hmmm... Weymann bodywork with a 21st Century spin. Interesting, but the hood looks cloacal.
Swiss Army Porsche? Matte olive-green 911 (video) {Autoblog}
Dec 26th 2007 12:23PM Cute, but it's been done before.
Back in the 1980's, the good people at RUF had a 930 mule that they assembled out of a spare shell and some miscellaneous parts. Stripped of all but the most basic components and almost completely devoid of interior upholstery, it was light and purportedly very fast. Painted with - literally - some surplus Bundeswehr olive drab paint, it became known as the "NATO Porsche".
Tesla clarifies report of "temporary transmissions" {Autoblog}
Dec 19th 2007 9:01PM Keep in mind that the Tesla is a product of SiliValley minds. Consequently, the owners are going to be "beta testing" the finished product. And why not? After all, it worked for Lotus, and Ginetta, and Marcos, and TVR, and Rochdale, and...
Lexus exceeds LS600h sales target by three hundred percent {Autoblog}
Dec 4th 2007 11:04PM Part of the reason for the Lexus' improved efficiency is that is lacks a heating system. Drivers of the hybrid stay warm basking in the glow of their own sanctimony and self-satisfaction.
Amateur designer daydreams: the Porsche Carma Concept {Autoblog}
Nov 20th 2007 1:47AM Looks very much like a modernization of the old SP2 sports GT from VW of Brazil. Not so much like a Porsche. Make a nice VW tho...
Britney's Porsche Speedster {Luxist}
Jun 7th 2006 1:15AM Obviously, a rare "lapse" in tase for Ms. Spears. My money's on the replica - as has been noted elsewhere, I doubt she'd get to the end of her drive before trashing the synchros if it were a real one. Replica or no, I hope this doesn't start a new fashion among the young, monied hipster set. The though of talentless, pointless, vacuous, crass ----s like Brandon Davis, Paris Hilton, Lohan, Jlo, PDiddy (or whatever he's calling himself these days), Kimbo Stewart, and the like driving around defiling classic cars is revolting.
Ford anti-squatting efforts out of control? {Autoblog}
Jun 2nd 2006 12:58AM From the point of view of trademark law Ford may well be in the right, but for the reasons enumerated above this has to stand as their latest really dumb decision. I wonder how far they'll take their case. Will the owners of the website Mustangsmustangs.com have to come up with an alternative (it's a site dedicated to the P-51)?
Come to think of it, I recall that no less than Lee Iacocca claimed that the name of the car was inspired by the famous World War Two fighter plane. On that basis I suppose North American Aviation/Rockwell International/Boeing could sue the bozos at Ford for copyright infringement!
When, oh when, will the shareholders and the Board of Bystanders at Ford get rid of the clueless Bill Word Jr. and the rest of the current management?
It's lights out for TVR {Autoblog}
Apr 24th 2006 4:39PM Sanjay- thanks for the link to the Pistonheads article.
Frankly, I don't think it adds up. Usually, when a company relocates to new facilities, plans are put in place months to years before existing facilities are closed and employees cashiered. Last week we heard that TVR management had told many employees to "stay home" for a couple of weeks, noting that winter sales had been slow and production was down to two cars/week. Now, on Monday, we're told that the existing Blackpool plant is closing soon and everybody's out of a job. You'd think that if TVR's leadership really intended to "relocate", they would have announced the decision earlier and in a more appropriate fashion.
Moreover, if the comment from the company spokesman is true, and the early spring is when consumers' thoughts turn to dreams of sports cars, why would they then abruptly cease production and close the plant now? If the PR man is right, one would logically expect sales to pick up in the next few months, not stagnate as they did all winter.
I have to confess that whe I heard of young Mr. Smolensky's purchase of the company two years ago I feared that TVR would return to the peripatetic existence that it had known for most of its life. Anyone who is familiar with the firm's history knows that the relative stability which characterized the company's finances for most of the last eighteen or twenty years is unusual, and due mainly to the influence - and patience - of its previous owner.
So far as I can determine, Mr. Smolensky has little prior business experience, and no qualifications for his position other than being the beneficiary of the largesse of his oligarch father. A father, moreover, who's acccession to wealth and power is almost certainly attributable to business practices that we in the west would deem corrupt, if not outright criminal.
I hope that I'm wrong, and that Smolensky and company will prove themselves to be farsighted, persistent, and skillful managers of the company's fortunes. But it is hard to avoid thinking that TVR will now go the way of AC Cars and it's proprietor, Alan Lubinsky, and become yet another sad chapter in the volatile history of British specialist car builders. Perhaps, like AC, TVR will announce a plan to "relocate" to Connecticut. Or Minsk. Who knows?
Kerkorian unloads a chunk of GM stock {Autoblog}
Dec 23rd 2005 12:53AM ALl of the aforementioned comments are valid, but don't forget, too, that Kerkorian is basically a raider. It's not too much of a stretch to speculate that his key reason for taking a stake in GM to start was to gain a foothold on the board, and from there force the company to sell of assets, especially GMAC. In light of recent news that ongoing talks to sell a majority stake in GMAC to a third party had broken down, Kerkorian's decision to sell is unsurprising.
