Filed under: Classics, Buick Buick has taken the time to highlight some of the company’s personal points of pride from the past 110 years. Those include everything from the automaker’s very first vehicle, the 1904 Model B, to what Buick claims is the world’s first concept car: The 1938 Y Read more…
Welcome to Sunday Matinee, where we highlight classic car reviews or other longer videos I find on YouTube. Kick back and enjoy this blast from the past. Read more…
Filed under: Shanghai Motor Show With each passing year, the Shanghai Motor Show gets more and more important – take that, if you will, as a metaphor for the entire Chinese automotive market as a whole. And while the show’s press events are limited to one single day (on a Read more…
Filed under: Sedan, China, Shanghai Motor Show, Luxury Hongqi means “Red Flag,” and the sub-brand of Chinese automaker FAW was created in the 1950s to build cars for leaders of the nation known by its red flag. In those early days Hongqi designers took inspiration from what looks to be Read more…
In any of its numerous incarnations, the GTI is one of those great "have your cake and eat it too" cars. Read more…
Royal Caribbean’s new Quantum-class cruise ship will feature bumper cars, for the first time ever on a cruise ship. That’s the important part. For Jalops, anyways. Read more…
Filed under: Toys/Games Forza Horizon has released a new, and free, downloadable content pack. The 1000 Club DLC features two new cars – the 1956 Ford F100 pickup and 1995 RUF CTR2 – but the more important part is the fact that players can now partake in a rash of Read more…
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Legislation and Policy, Fisker Looks like the $100,000 or so Leo and Bieber plunked down for their Fisker Karma extended-range plug-in vehicles may have been a bargain. The California-based automaker, which appears to be headed for bankruptcy, spent an estimated $660,000 for every one of fewer than Read more…
This is a Swiss Air Airbus A340 landing through the fog at Zurich airport. The video is beautiful, but what’s great is how it shows what happens around the wings of your plane as you land. Read more…
Crap. Well, to be fair, semi-functional crap. And, to be even more than fair, for the cost of a decent LA burger you can actually get a mostly-functioning electronic device that can capture and store video images from the dashboard of your car. That in itself is pretty incredible. But Read more…