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All Your Wallpapers Are Belong To Toyota
Toyota Backs Down From Desktop Copyright Request
Toyota has contacted Jalopnik and informed us their company's perplexing attempt to claim rights to desktop images uploaded by users and hosted at DesktopNexus was the result of an "internal miscommunication" and they they offered a sincere apology to those at the site involved in the fracas. This is a major reversal. As recently as Moday the company's lawyers were threatening to pursue legal action if any desktop image with any Toyota vehicle was left on DesktopNexus. To Toyota's credit, they realized what a major publicity mistake they were making and quickly changed course before making it an even bigger story. The statement from Toyota below the jump. More » -
Engine Swap
Crazy Czechs Build Tatra V8-Powered Trabant Drift Car, Will Sell It To You!
Since I've been helping BobAsh obtain American cars to ship to the Czech Republic, he's helping me find a nice Hell Project I can bring over here. Here's a car I seriously considered buying- it's priced at the equivalent of $1,500- but then I realized that the California DMV would most likely have me clapped in irons the moment I attempted to register a Trabant with a backyard-built chassis, Tatra V8, and what appears to be five foot pedals. Still, imagine having this thing as your track car! Make the jump for all the photos and more Tatrabant madness.
Tatra Plus Trabant Equals Czech Drifting Fun
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Question of the Day
What Car Looks Best After Sunset?
Most attractive cars are designed to stand out in the brightness of day or under an array of flashbulbs and klieg lights, but there are a few that stand out when it gets darker. Sometimes it's intentional, like the way the headlights of an Audi creates a pleasant shape around the nose or the way a well-designed taillight highlights a car's shoulders. Sometimes it's the way a waxed car can pick up the bright neon lights of a commercial strip, reflecting the bright colors of an active society. But the best looking cars at night are the ones shaped in such a way that they shine in the absence of light. Just a hint of the yellow glow of sodium lights in a dark alley and the car explodes with shapes and meaning like the backdrop of a German Expressionist film from the 1920s. We love it and we suspect you do as well. What car looks best after sunset? More » -
Carpocalypse Now
Congress Gives Not-So-Big Three An Ultimatum
After some members of Congress excoriated the leaders of the not-so-Big Three for wasting money and not planning for their future, leadership from the Senate and House said they wouldn't give the automakers billions of dollars until they came up with a plan for not wasting money and setting up their own future. Welcome to Carpocalypse Now! It was basically the best solution that the lame duck Congress could come up with given that Turkey Day is around the corner and, like the UAW, Congress loves to take vacations. But why put it off? What's really happening? More » -
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custom cars
Man Builds Amazing Audi R8 Out Of A Mercury Cougar
The Audi R8 is one of the most exclusive and beautiful supercars in the world, commanding auto-lust wherever it goes and wherever it's seen. But what if you want an R8 but don't have the $105,000+ to buy one yourself? You could go through the arduous process of designing and building the whole thing from the ground up in your basement, but that would take 17 years. Who has the time? Why not just design an approximation of the R8 around a 2001 Mercury Cougar, fabricate it from fiberglass, and call it the ReplicaAudiR8?
More »Amazingly Good Replica Audi R8
10:31 AM on Fri Nov 21 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
7,796 views, 69 commentsMost discussed SCROGGS!!: When life gave Senor Zaragoza a lemon, he made lemon meringue pie. more »
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2010 mazda3
2010 Mazda3 Hatchback Spied By Mazda
While the 2010 Mazda3 sedan is all smiles, we're reserving our grins for the Mazda3 hatchback. This is why we're so pleased Mazda's press people provided us with what has to be the most beautiful set of spy photos we've ever seen. Rather than leaving the job of snapping photos of the new Mazda3 con camo to the quick shutters of KGP, the press office hired someone to make an entire set of glamour shots of the covered hatch crossing Iceland. The new Mazda3 looks sporty in person and, from what we can see, the hatch looks just as sporty.
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10:30 AM on Fri Nov 21 2008
By Matt Hardigree
717 views, 23 commentsMost discussed bmoredlj: Has annyone asked a Mazda exec if you're actually supposed to say Mazda twice? Something tells me you're not. more »
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Cars
Mercedes' Web-Connected myComand Takes on BMW iDrive
FROM GIZMODO.COM: Mercedes-Benz new myCOMAND system has appeared at the Los Angeles Auto Show, taking on the fourth-generation BMW iDrive. Whereas the latter has an Xbox 360 feeling, this one gets some clues from Apple, especially Coverflow and the menu navigation, which reminds me of the first version of the Apple T... More » -
Down On The Street
1979 Cadillac Fleetwood Limousine
Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Cadillacs sold pretty well, even after most of a decade of Malaise-y gas prices and general sense of diminished expectations, so you could still buy a great big angular slab of rear-wheel-drive Fleetwood as late as 1984. Here we've got a raggedy '79 Fleetwood that's been sitting on a major commercial strip for a couple of weeks now.
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Jalopnik Reviews
2009 Pontiac G8 GXP, First Drive
If I were to tell you GM is the new BMW you’d probably laugh at me. But driving the 2009 Pontiac G8 GXP just a couple of months after the 2009 Cadillac CTS-V and Corvette ZR1, that’s exactly what I’m thinking. Equipped with a 6.3-liter, LS3 V8 making 415 HP and 415 lb-ft of torque, the G8 GXP isn’t just the fastest car Pontiac's ever made, but based on GM’s new global rear wheel drive platform (the same one as the new Camaro) and fitted with lower, stiffer suspension and a six-speed manual gearbox it strikes the right balance between supercar performance and real world practicality. Think E39 M5, but with a Corvette engine and better steering.
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12:00 AM on Fri Nov 21 2008
By Wes Siler
4,661 views, 113 commentsMost discussed PotatoeMasher: "the best car in the world, the ZR1." Well I think that debate is settled! lol That quote is bound more »
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in-flight wi-fi
Flight Test: Porn and VOIP Confirmed at 35,000 Feet
FROM GIZMODO.COM: Jalopnik's Road Test Editor Wes Siler is currently at 35,000 feet, flying American Airlines from LA to NY. Since his Boeing 767 had the recently launched Gogo in-flight Wi-Fi, and since he was already using it to get his work done, we decided to see how far the service could go in terms of in-fligh... More »
