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Currently I keep up with a handful of podcasts, and my latest addition is Adam Corolla's second Podcast, CarCast
(this time it is weekly, thank God,it was hard keeping up with a daily podcast)
As you guessed it is about cars, guess what I love cars and love to hear about them. Its nice because versus Top Gear this is a retrospective on older cars and their legacy versus Top Gear, which is super amazing, is all about the newest and greatest plus some great country to country challenges. (I think if someone told me I could only do 1 thing in my life and after that is all over, I would probably pick being a host on BBC's Top Gear.)
As for the clip above, it features one my favorite web entrepenuers Jason Calacanis (which has a podcast I listen to too) and his orange Tesla, which I never heard all the crazy amazing specs on except for it was electric until this clip, very impressive. It can beat a 430 Ferrari, nice.
You can find all these on iTunes:
Adam Corolla's CarCast
Jason Calacani's This Week in Startups
The Porsche Museum in Stuttgard Germany is Designed by Delugan Meissl Associated Architects and is the project I suspect will bring this already accomplished firm to a household name within the design community. Click the "read more," tab to see more pictures. (and see their starwars angle)
Via CoolBoom
BMW has collaborated with South African Artist, Robin Rhode, to create "Expression of Joy." I believe the images and video speak for themselves, but I have added some links below for some long ass articles about the intent and technique actually I couldn't go pass the 1st paragraph so I am guessing that's what it was about.
After the Jump All the Cool IMAGES
Pretty much all I know is that I have been seriously obsessed with the Audi R8 for a full year now, so finding these amazing images of the R8 in firetruck red and set to the neutral clean backdrop of a Siberia winter, this makes the R8 worthy of being more then Ironman’s vehicle but maybe James Bond’s Ride, if he ever chooses to drop his Aston.
all images were found @ World Car Fans
This is one really sleek successor to already sleek Benz McLaren SLR. To honor one legendary race car they named this edition after him, Sir Stirling Moss, he is better know for is incredible win in the 1955 Mille Migila. It will share the same 650 hp V8 engine from the SLR 722 edition.
Due to come out June 09’ with a limited production of 75 cars worldwide exclusively being sold only to previous SLR owners (Crap, I guess winning the lotto in next 6 months will not help).
images via AUTOblog
info via AvntGrdeMag
Concept Volt
Expected Production Volt
Remember when plug-in was sexy? Back when Chevy announced the volt something amazing happened every red blooded American instantly wanted the most environmentally friendly car out there. Suddenly people who never would have dremt of driving a prius started getting interested in mpgs and signing up on waiting lists to be the first in their area for the ability to drive 40 miles without using a single drop of gasoline. Soon after oil prices surged and the volt became an iconic middle finger to Opec.
Then something hit and suddenly the volt looks a little bit like an improved camry. This thing is called reality. After months of aerodynamics testing and teams looking for ways to economize the car the cutting edge design has been greatly watered down. It's as if all of a sudden my cappuccino was decaf. While the car is still a revolutionary break through what remains to be seen is if mpg's are enough to make your average Joe fork over 40,000 usd when his new volt no longer makes the guy down the streets BMW look like an Oldsmobile.
