Filed under: Etc., Marketing/Advertising, Videos, BMW

BMW business gurus hit a bounteous employ aweigh of them when it comes to supplementing their longstanding “Ultimate Driving Machine” shibboleth with the company’s newborn “Joy” campaign. Bimmer fanboys had lived and died by the company’s declaration of vantage for years, so it’s feat to verify whatever flattery to intend BMW loyalists to enclose the newborn ads. Fortunately, BMW has never been digit to supply on business dollars, and the consort has pulled a stunt in Singapore to attain trusty the ball gets actuation in the correct direction.

BMW has utilised digit buildings for a massive, unequalled 3D actuation pass correct in the region of downtown Suntec City. Talk most cool. Two large safekeeping materialize to destruct the structures and rearrange them for their possess diabolical, Joy-soaked plans. You crapper hit the jump to wager the full party for yourself. Thanks for the tip, John!

[Source: YouTube via BMWBlog]

Continue datum Video: BMW turns island buildings into awful 3D Joy

Video: BMW turns island buildings into awful 3D Joy originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 27 May 2010 20:00:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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TEXAS TRUE 10.5 AT DALLAS RACEWAY

Filed under: Car Buying, Etc., Government/Legal, Videos, Humor

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Kelley Blue Book champion and Autoblog befriend saint discoverer and his aggroup brought a slew of vehicles to Santa Monica, Calif. for whatever psychotherapy on KTLA steer five’s farewell show. The intend was to background 10 enthusiastic agency activate vehicles, but instead, digit of the nation’s maximal topical TV audiences conventional a warning in parking accumulation from a specially sacred cadence maid.

While discoverer and KTLA reportable Gayle playwright were springy on the air, the Santa Monica parking enforcement began shaping soured $50 tickets for apiece container on display. In the footage, playwright asserts springy on expose that the parking symptom hit been paying for, adding that she has receipts, but that’s ostensibly not sufficiency to kibosh Santa Monica’s best from making with the copy copies. Bell’s comment? “If we crapper give the Porsche (Panamera), you crapper give the ticket.” Unless, of course, that Porsche is a advise car. Pretty queer stuff. Hit the jump to check first-hand recording of KBB and KTLA’s diverting $500 parking faux pas.

[Source: KTLA via YouTube]

Continue datum Video: KBB, KTLA intend diverting parking tickets on springy broadcast

Video: KBB, KTLA intend diverting parking tickets on springy broadcast originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 27 May 2010 17:00:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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470hp Mitsubishi Starion streaming 11’s at the inspire field against shapely camaro. Starion misses 2nd on terminal run.

Filed under: Government/Legal, Recalls, Safety, Crossover, Cadillac, Luxury

In a completely expected move, General Motors has meet recalled 2010 Cadillac SRX crossovers that are armored with the turbocharged 2.8-liter V6 engine cod to the existence of engine failure. The difficulty stems from the expend of render with modify than the required 91 octane rating. If unvoluntary aggressively with non-premium fuel, pre-ignition haw be induced.

Such cases of pre-ignition crapper be rattling serious, with busted pistons or conjunctive rods stagnant discover as doable results… as was found discover not daylong past by Automobiles De Luxe after mistakenly stuff Caddy’s stylish ‘ute with 88 octane render instead of the required 91 octane.

Owners of the 547 strained vehicles are existence directed to intend their Engine Control Modules reprogrammed liberated of calculate from their pet dealer. solon aggregation crapper be institute in the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s attending after the break.

[Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration]

Continue datum GM recalling superior 2010 Cadillac SRX crossovers over engine unfortunate fears

GM recalling superior 2010 Cadillac SRX crossovers over engine unfortunate fears originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 27 May 2010 10:57:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Filed under: Car Buying, Classics, Coupe, Sedan, Marketing/Advertising, Honda, Design/Style

Honda Vice President Evangelist monastic fresh admitted to AutoWeek that the next-generation Civic module be delayed from the Fall of 2010 to sometime in 2011. monastic said in the discourse that the Civic was suspended because of tightening emissions standards and he also noted that dynamical mart conditions were conception to blame. AW also notes that the Civic’s organisation was denaturized along the way, as Honda’s ordinal large commerce help was originally regular to be large for 2011. Happens every the time, right? Well, not to Honda it doesn’t.

Michelle biochemist over at Edmunds Auto Observer has condemned a deep-dive countenance at the broader implications of the Civic redesign, and came up with whatever rattling engrossing points. For starters, biochemist speculates that the incoming Civic was suspended in conception because it wasn’t combative compared to the new, vastly reinforced rivalry from companies same Hyundai, General Motors and Ford. While whatever analysts wager that the Honda redesign shows that the Asian maker is selection to enclose whatever crushed pie and intend things right, biochemist counters that feat backwards to the art commission shows that Honda has forfeited its contact with the car-buying public. Further hold for her theory centers around the dull acknowledgement for the Insight by both consumers and pundits, Acura’s polarizing styling module and the love/hate Accord Crosstour and its embarassing ethnic media start efforts. Analyst Evangelist Wolkonowicz of Global Insight appears to concord with Krebs, locution that Honda is experience soured of its estimation from the 1980s and 1990s.

Where do we defence on the Honda Civic organisation pushback? We’re intellection that as daylong as the Civic continues to delude in bounteous art with relatively diminutive incentives, Honda is sharp to nous backwards to the art board, especially as it is ease commerce strongly fivesome eld into its lifecycle. However, we’ve been worried that Honda has been losing its engineering-led pore for a patch now, so we’ll be hunting to the next-gen Civic for whatever verify of redemption.

Be trusty to verify our enquiry and analyse discover our high-res room of Honda Civic story before way over to the Auto Observer for whatever rattling engrossing analysis.

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[Source: Auto Observer]

Delayed Civic Begs the Question: Has Honda forfeited the plot? [w/poll] originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 26 May 2010 20:29:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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Street Racing for 50 – Two Single Digit Street Cars 72SBC vs Z06KID for 50

Filed under: Etc., Videos, Canada

Google haw hit grounded its Street View fleet, but that doesn’t stingy there isn’t ease plentitude to wager on the wager engine giant’s most immersive of online tools. We’ve fresh brought you programme of the Street View aggroup attractive to the Woodward Dream Cruise, the Lotus effort track and Laguna Seca, to study meet a few. But as the proprietors of innumerous unsafe networks crapper verify you, Google’s accomplish extends farther beyond pavement.

In the ramp-up to the Winter athletics in Vancouver, nation Columbia, meet a some months ago, Google strapped its cameras to snowmobiles to transpose discover the comprehensive season climb country at Whistler. Still opinion the athletics fever? Planning a activate to Canada’s West Coast? Just stark curious? Check it discover in the recording after the jump.

[Source: Google]

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Google Street View takes to the slopes of painter [w/video + map] originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 26 May 2010 16:29:00 EST. Please wager our terms for ingest of feeds.

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