Chronicling the Ever-Changing Automotive Industry
While The Knack’s song has been parodied before, this one is far more relevant to current events. Production quality is pretty good, so click past the jump to check it out. I’ve included the lyrics as well, since some of the lines can be difficult to hear.
Continue reading ‘My my my, Toyota! Corrigan Brothers Parody Video’
How do you make a vehicle quieter? Seal up all openings. How do you test to ensure those seals are working? Fill the vehicle with smoke! Well, that’s what GM’s engineers did, anyway. It’s a fun video to watch, even if it’s mostly PR fluff.
Continue reading ‘Fun Stuff: 2010 Chevy Equinox Smoke test Video’
This week, Volvo released several videos of their upcoming 2011 S60. The car will be shown off at the Geneva auto show next month, but until then, we’ve got the videos after the jump. There are a bunch of them, but they show pretty much all aspects (minus the new-car smell) of what is surely to be a hit for Volvo when it shows up at dealers later this year.
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Rather than taking a shock-and-awe or fear (“Click it or ticke”) approaches to reminding drivers to wear their seat belts, the following video shows the opposite; it shows life and beauty. I won’t spoil the details, so click past the jump to check out the 1 minute, 28 second-long video for yourself. For more information, please visit the Suffex Safer Roads web site. If you’ve seen another good car-related ad, by all means, send me a link.
Continue reading ‘Slow-motion Seatbelt ad … best ever?’
If you live on the eastern seaboard of the US, you know that a huge snowstorm came through the mid-atlantic area and dumped 2+ feet of snow on us. In a bit of bad luck, a Baltimore City snow plow got stuck in the fluffy white stuff. Lucky for the snow plow, a Hummer H2 was nearby, and was able to get the plow back in service. Click past the jump to see the H2 in action.
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If your 556-horsepower Cadillac CTS-V isn’t fast enough, Hennessey Performance has a few upgrades for you. Through new engine management, internals and exhaust, they wrangle another 150 horses out of the Corvette engine currently powering Cadillac’s halo car. If you’re snowed in like the rest of us in the Washington, D.C. area, go ahead and click through the link to see its speed run.
Continue reading ‘Fun Stuff: Grocery-Getter Cadillac CTS-V gets tuned up’
