Carpocalypse Now
CNBC just dropped a poll into the field asking whether respondents would be willing or unwilling to buy a car from a bankrupt automaker. As we've long suspected, 52% claimed they're unwilling. That's not good.
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Carpocalypse Now
The Daily Show's Jon Stewart isn't much of a car guy. Regardless, he's on the right track with last night's humorous quasi-opinion piece mocking the not-so-Big Three, but ending in the right place — supporting Congressional loans.
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Down On The Street
Welcome to
Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. The distribution of Cadillac model years seems a bit strange on the island; today's car is our
third 1960 Cadillac coupe (after
this gold one and
this red one), but the rest of the decade of the 1960s isn't represented until we get to 1969 (which is represented by four cars:
this one,
this one,
this one, and
this one). Where are all those 1961-68 Cads?
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New BMW Z4
Yesterday, we saw the
2010 BMW Z4 from the
front 3/4. Now, thanks to a leaked catalog rendering, we can see it from the rear. Visible for the first time are its folding hardtop and shapely haunches. The more we see of the
new BMW Z4, the more we like it. [via
BMWBlog]
Commenter Of The Day
Our love of
Friday Night Lights the television show exceeds our love of the book and movie. We appreciate the way it presents both the way we see Texas (ungodly attractive people fueled by determination and courage) and the way Texas often is (full of desperate people clinging to Football to fulfill other unsatisfied desires). Even though almost everyone in the cast looks way too young to be in high school, and the whole murdering a guy thing, it's one of the best shows on television. The story Wes posted about the Texas man who rammed into a woman's car because
God said she wan't diving like a Christian launched a dozen great one-liners, but we think
abgwin captured the Texan-ness of the moment best.
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