Home Depot Center hosted the qualifying today for the X Games Rally Super Special. Because the FMX Super X configuration holds court in the arena until Saturday night Rally qualifying was confined to the outer perimeter tarmac section. To no one’s surprise it was an all STI/Fiesta battle. However what was surprising was that the [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Kenny From The Brack Takes the Pole at X
July 31st, 2009
Today’s News From the Cars.com Family
July 31st, 2009
Can you still cash in on Cash for Clunkers? Ask.cars.com explains what’s going on with the program. Then, PickupTrucks.com has EPA fuel economy ratings for the 2010 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra XFE. Finally, MotherProof.com has another video from the 2009 BlogHer conference. Chief mom Kristin Varela finds out how other moms feel about carpooling [...]
What a Mess: Lebanon Valley Dragway Flooded
July 31st, 2009
We had some heavy rains come through here the other day, but nothing compared to those experienced in West Lebanon, where our home track of Lebanon Valley is located. About eight inches of rain overflowed the creek next to the track, leading to as much as eight feet of water pouring over both the dragstrip [...]
Car Spotlight: Ferrari 408 Integrale
July 31st, 2009
Last month there was fervor in the automotive world over the news of Ferrari’s leaked patent application for “Hybrid 4WD” drive-trains. In these documents deposited by Ferrari were various solutions for an all-wheel-drive system for both front-engined and rear-engined models. Essentially the drawings showed in-board or alternatively in-wheel electrical motors that would power the front [...]
Silent But Deadly: The Next Generation JDM Hybrids
July 31st, 2009
The next generation of hybrid cars are officially out and as expected the Japanese tuning scene is already hard at work to stylize and tune them! The lead off image features my favorite design of the bunch by Exclusive Zeus. I really like how the painted the grill and center area of the bumper in [...]
All About the Isle of Man and the Legendary TT
July 31st, 2009
The TT is more than a race, it is a competition that embodies everything about what good racing is. It’s a motorcycle race held on the Isle of Mann, a rocky crag off the coast of Ireland that’s actually part of England, and 224 people have died during the running of the race over the [...]
What Happens to A Clunked Clunker?
July 31st, 2009
The New York Times has an interesting blog post about how car dealers are racing to get the cars, which have been traded in as part of the Cash for Clunkers program, decommissioned and sent to the scrap yard. The process seems even more laborious than the paperwork they need to file with the U.S. [...]
Recall Alert: Honda Accord, Civic, Acura TL
July 31st, 2009
Honda is expanding a recall from 2008 to include an additional 440,000 vehicles. The recall is for defective airbag inflation systems that could deploy with too much pressure, causing injury or even fatalities. According to Bloomberg News, the default has led to one death in the U.S. Included in the recall are model year 2001-02 [...]
The BNR32 Skyline GT-R In-Depth
July 31st, 2009
Forget Wikipedia. Forget Encyclopedia Brittanica. Forget your Physics professor, and his odd ability to recite every car ever made since 1901. This is going to be an in-your-face and in-depth analysis on one of the most prominent and well known Japanese sports cars of the 1990’s. And unlike my BNR32 GT-R N1 post, this will [...]
Angry Goes West: Day 4
July 31st, 2009
We awoke at the hotel in Topeka, KS to a wicked rain storm. Apparently God knew that we needed to be somewhere and decided it was time to water the earth. The Charger’s “don’t see me” cover was completely drenched and it took Johnny and I a good 30 minutes to wring that sucker out [...]