Posts tagged as Cars
Madonna, "Give Me All Your Luvin' (Feat. M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj)"
This new Madonna video, in which M.I.A. appears (and doesn't do much, along with Nicki Minaj), is not as good as M.I.A.'s new video, "Bad Girls." Considering this, and also the great video Jay-Z and Kanye West made for their song "Otis" last summer, it seems that the Bay Area hip-hop subculture known as "hyphy," which peaked four or five years ago, is having its most lasting cultural impact in the phenomena of the dangerous-looking car tricks known as "ghost riding."
How Straight People Buy Cars
"I want to start a family in the next 4ish years. BUT, we aren't engaged (we have been together 5+ years, he knows I want to get married and have a family but he's not ready yet) so it's not like we are going to have kids soon.... My boyfriend is going car shopping with me on Saturday and he has promised to take the back seat as it were and let me make my own decision. I feel like I am being super emotional about this whole thing and I don't want to freak him out by saying BUT WHERE WILL THE BABY GO????? while we are looking at cars. Am I being irrational?" READ MORE
What Sound Should The New Hippie Cars Make?
"[I]n a few years, the government will require electric cars and gasoline-electric hybrids to emit some type of noise at low speeds, when their battery-driven motors usually run silent. The promised rules—aimed at making the vehicles safer for vision-impaired pedestrians and others who rely on aural cues—have launched auto makers on a quest for the perfect sound. Among those considered: noises reminiscent of jet engines, bells, birds, flying saucers and revved-up sports cars." READ MORE
The Annual Visit to Detroit: The Car Industry's Big Millennial Grab
A few days ago, in my professional capacity as a Japanese TV News Producer (read: guy who carries tripod, tells police, “sorry, we’ll leave”), I was dispatched to Detroit for the North American International Auto Show. READ MORE
Germans Are Making Brand-Slaves of Your Children
It’s that magical time of the year when brand preferences are being lodged in the consumer psyche by any means necessary, be it free online shipping offers or conventional “doorbuster” style shopper stampedes. (Plus, in an admirable show of advance conditioning, there are those sidebar Four Loko-fueled parking lot brawls.) READ MORE
This Is Why People Find Alt Weeklies Annoying
Here's another babies die alone in hot cars story, from the New Times chain, regarding which, we are very sorry to bring this topic up. But this supposedly heart-wrenching story, unlike the infamous Story That We Try Not To Mention, in which we learn about how people actually do forget about their babies in cars, is instead about a guy who knew very well that his baby was in a car and, like, went out to check on her and crack the window and then spent a couple hours hanging out with his buddies in the air conditioning at work. So basically you can cool it on the six pages of frothy emotional appeal and talk of "inconsistent laws"-the dude left his kid in a car for a couple of hours and the kid died and he went to jail. That seems unsurprising.
$320,000 Car Designed To Maim Pedestrians
"Bentley Motors is recalling 596 vehicles in the United States because of a rust problem with the flying 'B' hood ornament.... As a result of a part rusting, the 'B' may not retract when struck, causing additional injury to a pedestrian," according to this snarky Times blog report.
Dear Woman Who Lived Up On The Hill Near The Lighthouse
Dear woman who lived up on the hill near the lighthouse, READ MORE
