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VW creates edible print ad for Golf R

Filed under: Marketing/Advertising, Hatchback, Volkswagen

volkswagen golf r edible ad

Ever heard someone say their car eats up the road? Volkswagen is taking that phrase to a whole new level in a new print ad for the 2012 Golf R. Placed between the pages of South Africa’s Auto Trader magazine, the road on the page is edible… as in, you can literally eat this road.

We’re not sure how many calories this will add to your daily intake (perhaps you could figure it out… VW says the page is made from glutinous rice flour, water, salt, propylene glycol FD&C color and glycerine). Also, we’d wager that this page needs some Ranch dipping sauce or Red Hot (or both) to make it remotely tasty.

Regardless, it’s a smart bit of advertising, and we expect that auto repair shops across South Africa are filled with Auto Trader mags bearing teeth marks.

VW creates edible print ad for Golf R originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 27 May 2011 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Video: Baptist minister creates world’s fastest motorcycle hearse

Filed under: Etc., Videos, Motorcycle

Reverend Biddiss on the world's fastest motorcycle hearse

Reverend Biddiss on the world’s fastest motorcycle hearse – Click above to watch video after the jump

The Guinness folks are responsible for sorting out all sorts of life questions. You know, like; which domestic cat has the loudest purr on the planet? Or maybe; what’s the heaviest weight ever lifted by the human tongue? Of course, they’re also responsible for keeping track of all sorts of automotive records, including the one depicted in the video after the jump: the world’s fastest motorcycle hearse. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen a chariot of the dead on three wheels, but it is the first model owned and operated by a legitimate man of the cloth.

Reverend Ray Biddiss is the man behind a customized Triumph Rocket III that’s good for a top speed of 114.1 mph. While still technically awaiting confirmation, Biddiss is confident that his £20,000 machine will take the title of world’s fastest motorcycle hearse with ease. Hit the jump to check out a video of his top-speed run.

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Baptist minister creates world’s fastest motorcycle hearse originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 13 May 2011 12:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Pennsylvania dealer loves Vanishing Point, creates Kowalski Edition Dodge Challenger

Filed under: Car Buying, Coupe, Chrysler, Dodge

kowalski edition dodge challenger

As if you needed any reminder, in the 1971 film Vanishing Point, a character by the name of Kowalski is tasked with making it from Colorado to San Francisco in a 1970 Dodge Challenger. Kowalski bets a friend that he can make the run in just 15 hours, but – Spoiler Alert – he doesn’t make it… and neither does the muscle-bound coupe. The flick has been a cult favorite for years, and one of its fans, Bob Frederick of New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, got some help from Chrysler to create 10 2011 Kowalski Edition Dodge Challengers.

Starting life as a traditional 2011 Dodge Challenger SRT8 392, these white coupes have had their stripes removed and a handful of options added on. Inside, a pistol-grip shifter sits at attention and a numbered dash plaque is mounted nearby. On the outside, the Kowalski Edition Challengers sport Mopar quad exhaust tips, Scat Pack Bee decals in the rear quarter windows and a tasteful Kowalski Edition decal on the rear spoiler.

All 10 2011 Dodge Challenger SRT8 392 Kowalski Edition cars have been spoken for, so if any owners are reading this and want their car delivered quickly, we can help set that up. We promise to avoid bulldozers and the fuzz.

[Source: Hemmings]

Pennsylvania dealer loves Vanishing Point, creates Kowalski Edition Dodge Challenger originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 28 Apr 2011 15:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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UAW creates Global Organizing Institute to organize transplants

Filed under: Etc., Government/Legal, UAW/Unions

United Auto Workers president Bob King

It sounds ominous. The United Auto Workers union has imported interns from other automaking countries like China, Germany, South Korea and India to teach them the organizing techniques the union uses in the United States. The UAW’s Global Organizing Institute will give interns from other car building countries an indoctrination into the practices the union uses for collective bargaining, which they will then take back to their home countries and act as homegrown advocates for the UAW’s organizing efforts at non-unionized transplant facilities in the United States.

Bob King, UAW president, has a goal of bringing his union to one of the currently non-unionized transplant auto factories in the American south. With agents arguing for the UAW on the homefront and the union doing its best to get a transplant automaker on board, the union hopes it can not only help workers organize in other countries, but also help its own causes.

The UAW has asked for no interference from the leaders of those car companies and has threatened to use protests and other attention-grabbing practices should any automaker try to strongarm its workers into staying non-union. The interns will be given six weeks of training and field experience before they’re sent back to their home countries packing a new arsenal of skills.

[Source: Automotive News – sub. req.]

UAW creates Global Organizing Institute to organize transplants originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Video: Chevy S-10 boom truck nearly rattles itself to death, creates new hairstyles

Filed under: Aftermarket, Truck, Etc., Videos, Chevrolet, Humor

Chevrolet S10 Boom Truck

Chevrolet S-10 Boom Truck – Click above to watch video after the jump

There are sound systems, and then there are walls of speakers capable of melting cinder blocks and turning your average Chevrolet S10 pickup into a buzzing, trembling box of terror. The audio setup in the video after the jump falls safely in that latter category. A group of devoted bass enthusiasts have managed to turn an unsuspecting lowered S-10 into a carrier of audio assault. Fortunately, all involved seem to only use the vehicle’s power for good. You know, things like rattling windows, setting off car alarms and engineering Tina Turner-like hairstyles on cute girls with nothing but the sheer might of sound waves.

It’s plenty impressive (if utterly pointless), but it might just be one of the better uses left for a 1999 S-10. Still, we’ve got to wonder exactly how long the vehicle can withstand that kind of vibration before the vehicle’s sheets of glass and trim give up for good (just witness how the Bowtie’s trim tries to rearrange itself or flee in the beginning of the video). Supposedly, the wall of speakers is tuned to 28 hertz for maximum punch. Hit the jump to have a look for yourself.

[Source: YouTube]

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Video: Chevy S-10 boom truck nearly rattles itself to death, creates new hairstyles originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Tesla takes a tip from BMW, creates psychedelic Roadster art car

Filed under: Convertible, Tesla, Design/Style, Electric

Laurence Gartel Tesla art car

Laurence Gartel’s Tesla Roadster art car – Click above for high-res image gallery

We love ourselves some art cars. Be it a Warhol-liveried BMW M1 or a crochet-covered Morris Minor, few things flip our collective switch quite like the melding of art and automobiles. Tesla has introduced its first foray into the scene with a Roadster worked up by Laurence Gartel. The artist covered each and every one of the electric sports car’s body panels in a vinyl wrap with a trippy digital swirl design. Gartel has a history of working in digital art having begun experimenting in the medium in the ’70s, and Tesla is a company that identifies with individuals with a technology bent.

Tesla showed its Art Roadster at the Miami Art Basel Festival over the weekend, and the company spent some time motoring around the southern-Florida city during the event. Hit the jump for the full press release.

Gallery: Laurence Gartel Telsa Art Car

[Source: Tesla]

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Tesla takes a tip from BMW, creates psychedelic Roadster art car originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Video: VW’s Fun Theory creates a speed camera lottery

Filed under: Etc., Europe, Videos, Volkswagen

VW Fun Theory

Volkswagen’s Fun Theory speed camera lottery – Click above to watch video after the jump

Volkwagen’s Fun Theory experiments have been all about proving that people will do the right thing if you make the right thing fun to do. For instance, people threw recyclables into a bin just to hear the noise it made. The latest hijinks come courtesy of Kevin Richardson, an American whose idea was selected for the next Fun Theory experiment.

This time, the challenge was to make driving the speed limit rewarding, and Richardson’s idea was a speed camera lottery. Although it doesn’t sound the least bit compelling, his idea worked. We won’t spoil the surprise here, so follow the jump to see it in action.

[Source: YouTube]

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Video: VW’s Fun Theory creates a speed camera lottery originally appeared on Autoblog on Sun, 28 Nov 2010 13:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Drop Top Customs creates Chevrolet Camaro T-Top

Filed under: Aftermarket, SEMA Show, Coupe, Etc., Chevrolet, GM

Drop Top T-Top Camaro

Drop Top Customs, an aftermarket customizer which typically creates convertibles, has created a T-Top kit for the Chevrolet Camaro. The Drop Top T-Top Camaro will make its debut at SEMA show this November and the company says most of its creations will come equipped with a supercharger, but Drop Top assures us that chassis flex isn’t an issue. Sales begin shortly after its debut in Vegas next month and carry a sticker of $6,500.

[Source: Drop Top Customs via Inside Line]

Drop Top Customs creates Chevrolet Camaro T-Top originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Road Race Motorsports creates Platinum Edition Suzuki Kizashi

Filed under: Aftermarket, Sedan, Performance, Suzuki

Road Race Motorsports Platinum Edition Suzuki Kizashi – Click above for high-res image gallery

Road Race Motorsports has given the Suzuki Kizashi not just a boost, but a kick in the pants and elsewhere. Instead of the stock sedan’s 185 horsepower, RRM turbocharged the engine up to 300 hp, adds a sports suspension and sport brakes, along with a choice of bodykits. If 300 ponies is a little more than you’re after, RRM also has a 200-hp package, and the suspension offerings come in Stage 1, 2, and 3.

Our own Jeff Glucker drove it this week and wrote that “the carbon bucket seat was not built for my butt and I was half-assing (literally) in the seat. Thankfully, [the RRm Kizashi] was still easy to drive and predictably more fun than the stock model.” Follow the jump for the press release and check out the high-res images in the gallery below.

Gallery: Road Race Motorsports Platinum Edition Suzuki Kizashi

[Source: Road Race Motorsports]

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Road Race Motorsports creates Platinum Edition Suzuki Kizashi originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Monterey 2010: Pebble Beach Tour d’Elegance creates ultimate photo-ops

Filed under: Classics

2010 Pebble Beach Tour d’Elegance – Click above for high-res image gallery

While the skies were gloomy and even a bit weepy this year, at least we didn’t have fog like last year. The Pebble Beach Tour d’Elegance is one of our favorite events in Monterey every year, and it’s nice to actually see the cars. The Tour, if you’re not familiar, is an event that includes a large portion of the entrants in Sunday’s Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, but as its name implies, the cars are moving. The best part is that it’s free to anyone with a lawn chair.

The cars leave the Pebble Beach grounds around 8:30AM and snake through 17-Mile drive, loop through Monterey and then head down Highway 1 to Big Sur before turning around and coming back up into Carmel for lunch. Mercedes-Benz was the sponsor this year so there were plenty of SLS, SLK, S Class, GL, ML… LMNOP models on hand to serve escort duty for the “real” media, VIPs and racers like Sir Stirling Moss, who led the whole parade in an old Gullwing. Nice cars for sure, but the Tour is also our first glimpse at what’s going to be vying for Best of Show on the 18th fairway at Pebble on Sunday.

Unlike last year when the Horch just shown like a freshly polished diamond in a coal pile, we didn’t spot any clear favorites this year. That’s not to say there aren’t a ton of great cars here this year – just not one superstar. Several cars did manage to stand out as the entries chugged past us along PCH though.

That’s the magical part of the Tour, the cars careening down the coast with hundreds of spectators and photographers lining every turn-out. All five of your senses are involved here, with everything from horseless carriages to 1950s dream cars whizzing by, spewing an intoxicating mix of fuel vapor, oil, exhaust, brakes, clutch and various other overheated material scents as the ground rumbles under your feet, particularly with the race cars. And come on, how often do you get to see GP cars on the street?

Check out the amazing gallery of 109 high-res images by clicking below. We’re still in the process of labeling them all, so shout it out in the comments if you can identify any of the ones we’re missing.

Gallery: Monterey 2010: Pebble Beach Tour d’Elegance

Mercedes-Benz 300SL driven by Sir Stirling Moss

Monterey 2010: Pebble Beach Tour d’Elegance creates ultimate photo-ops originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:57:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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