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GM’s Wagoner heading to Congress in Malibu Hybrid
While it won’t get him there as quickly (or as luxuriously) as a Gulfstream corporate jet, GM CEO Rick Wagoner will drive to Washington this week in a Chevrolet Malibu hybrid to ask for taxpayer-funded bridge loans. Last month, Wagoner, Ford CEO Alan Mulally and Chrysler LLC CEO Robert Nardelli, all received some serious flak [...]
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Saab gets into ice-scraping business with Funk-Is Ice Scraper
Scraping the ice off windshields is anything but fun. But just because it’s a chore, doesn’t mean it can’t also be swathed in simple Swedish luxury. Saab is looking to make ice scraping easier with the introduction of the Funk-Is, which combines plexiglass, sheepskin, and leather to create a simple Swedish solution to a problem [...]
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Fiends sample Superformance Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe, GT40 MKI
Autofiends scribe and Auto@CooOne Sunday Drive alumni, Jonny Lieberman, is a lucky SOB. Not only did he get the chance to drive the Superformance replica of the Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe, but he snagged some wheel time in a thoroughly uncivilized MKI GT40 powered by a fuel-injected Roush 427 IR motor… putting out 500 hp… [...]
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Could you paint a Car-A-Day?
The collective artistic skill of the Auto@CooOne staff would hardly equal the pinky toe of Picasso, which is why we are duly impressed with Rob Ijbema’s website called Car-A-Day. Rob began the site about a year and a half ago painting and publishing one work per day of cars in various forms of motorsport. He [...]
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Porsche head predicts a hedge fund will swallow GM or Ford
Little guy Porsche is taking huge swings, and not just at the giant that is Volkswagen. Porsche head Wendelin Wiedeking had fierce Teutonic words for General Motors and Ford, and banks. His Rindfleisch – beef, that is – with U.S. automakers is that, through unsound practices, they have thrown absolutely everything into turmoil. In the [...]
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Parents Television Council shakes finger at GM, Nissan over advertising
Those Chastity Pariahs over at the Parents Television Council have called out General Motors and Nissan, among others, for advertising on shows deemed shocking and outrageous. The PTC has ranked the best and worst companies based on the television programs they advertise on, arguing that the advertisers’ support is tacit enabling of programming’s content. It [...]
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GM jets: No tracking for you!
GM has seven planes (four of them are for sale), and one of them was recently and infamously used for a brief sojourn to Washington for head honcho Rick Wagoner. When the public found out about it, well, let’s just say the polling numbers weren’t exactly favorable. For reasons that might or might not be [...]
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Say it like you mean it with “nice parking” cards
Sarcasm, they say, is the lowest form of wit, but in some situations it’s the only thing that will do. Take a poor parking job, for example. We’ve all been there, we’ve all seen it, and we’ve all had the same thoughts. And since anything and everything can be merchandised these days – including our [...]
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Trade in your Members Only: Lorinser has a jacket for men
That bitchin’ Members Only you’ve kept alive since the 80’s? It can finally be retired. Lorinser — yes, the Lorinser that does stuff like this to Mercedes-Benzes — has blown your MO into long-overdue obsolescence with the release of its Men Jacket. Yes, that’s right — the Men Jacket. It’s black, and in addition to [...]
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Ashes to Apex: Spread your remains at Catalunya
If you are a motorhead looking for a final resting spot, there’s a place just outside Barcelona, Spain that may appeal to you. It’s the Circuit de Catalunya, host to both MotoGP and Formula 1 races. The track is now permitting human remains to be scattered across the course. While the circuit isn’t allowing whole [...]
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