I like squid / My high-brid / One sixty-seven / Green car heaven – The Notorious NK, from “Hypnotizing Myself With Awful Rhymes” I don’t care how many times it shows up on Entourage, or how seeing one on the street always makes me do a double-take. I want to love it, but I always wind up thinking, “Man, the Porsche Panamera is one weird-looking automobile.” The 167 mph Hybrid I’m...
Read Part One: Alfa Romeo 4C Concept, 2012 Aston Marton Virage, Audi A3 Sedan Concept, and BMW ActiveE The 2011 Geneva Auto Show has come and go, and left in its wake a bunch of crazy new cars, even crazier concept cars, and a general sense that the economy has turned around enough to make ultra-high end exotic autos a segment worth pursuing again. That’s a good thing if you subscribe...
The 2011 Geneva Auto Show has come and go, and left in its wake a bunch of crazy new cars, even crazier concept cars, and a general sense that the economy has turned around enough to make ultra-high end exotic autos a segment worth pursuing again. That’s a good thing if you subscribe to the common wisdom that cool new tech starts out in flagship products and eventually trickles down to...
started handing out keys for test drives of its Karma EVer electric car. "EVer" means Extended Range electric vehicle, and the $100,000 Karma features a series hybrid drivetrain that uses electric motors to move the wheels and a gas engine to provide additional power to said motors. Like the Nissan Leaf, Karma's gas engine never actually moves the car forward, but rather works to...
Saturday night in Los Angeles, Blake Griffin leapt over the front hood of a Kia Optima, caught a pass thrown through the car's moonroof by a teammate sitting inside, and completed the alley-oop to win the 2011 NBA Slam Dunk Contest. As a long-time fan of hoops in general and the slam dunk contest in particular, I give Blake's jam a 44 out of 50. The presentation, involving the car, a...
As a member of the media I get to see many ultra cool items while attending the Consumers Electronics Show, all sorts of gadgets and gizmos that would make the most geeky of geeks head spin. Most products are solid offerings as it’s not cheap to attend the largest electronics show in the world. This year one product stood out, and has the potential to change the looks and feel of the...
You may or may not know that I covered CES on behalf of NVIDIA last week. You also may or may not know that as part of that gig I published the above video that's basically four minutes of me drooling all over a Tesla Model S electric car parked in the outdoor pavilion area at the show. See, NVIDIA's Tegra 2 chipsets are powering the insane 17″ touchscreen and the rest of the 2012 S'...
While one might expect that a company such as General Motors would be focusing on ensuring the success of short-term endeavors, the Detroit-based company decided to show its long-term plans by introducing us to the EN-V, a prototype vehicle built for use in urban settings. Though it lacks coveted cabin space, it certainly makes up for it with functionality that we have never seen in...