Tag Archive for 'slashcars'
Prepare to see these clear polycarbonate wheels appearing on your favourite car-modding show: apparently the next step beyond ridiculously large alloy wheels is to do away with the wheel altogether. Made of Lexan or some other polycarbonate variant, they give you the opportunity to show off those lovely brake disks you’re so very proud of.
Somewhere [...]
It was criticised for being expensive, impractical and unsafe, but having been a happy Smart ForTwo owner I can tell you that only one of those was true. Yes, it suffered from Mercedes-style inflated prices, but it was super-economical, surprisingly capacious and capable of crashing into an S-Class without anyone dying. In fact, I only [...]
Holy Lord in his pants, what on Eath is this?! A British sports car with a hybrid engine? The Connaught Type-D H is four-seat 2.0 litre V10 that can manage 42mpg and 0-60 in 6.5s, thanks to an electric motor that kicks in when the car is stationary, so that the main petrol engine can cut [...]
When I’m not stroking cellphones or diddling Tablet PCs I’m often to be found gaping in childish lust at some of the bigger, petrol powered toys available today. So it’s a sight to make me more than a little moist seeing Michelin’s display at this year’s SEMA show - no resorting to diamanté-clad convertibles or [...]
The Boy Genius Report seems to be cornering the market in high-tech luxury gadget reviews, with their latest being a hands-on with Bentley’s Flying Spur saloon and, more specifically, its factory-fit cellphone. Controlled via a knob in the armrest and a choice of three displays, there’s even a SIM slot so that you can take [...]
Do you know what, I hate public transport. Whether it’s bad karma or just standard fare, I always seem to end up sat next to the drooling, odorous weird person. So given the choice of taking my car (where I can listen to my own choice of music and not have to worry about someone twenty stone [...]
Over here in the UK it’s not uncommon to see the odd Lotus Elise and - more rarely - Exige bombing down the motorway or whipping around country lanes. The constantly evolving sportscar is renowned for having close-to-perfect handling and sweet, sweet driving dynamics, and has a loyal following amongst owners and enthusiasts. So it [...]
You know it’s a slow news day, perhaps, when articles about car keys start appearing, but Edmunds latest Top 10 is all about fabulous fobs that appeal to the fashionista gadget lover.
Ranging from Bentley’s chunky, knurled example (that tops their chart despite being, in reality, a blinged-up VW key), through the slot-in cards of BMW and [...]
I’m thinking about starting a petition to make concept designers legally obliged to comfort members of the public upset when all their fancy promises turn out - when in the metal - to be shockingly poor. Hopefully the designer of the Porsche Panamera, the “four-door coupé” that will take on the Maserati Quattroporte and any [...]
Could it be that windscreen wipers are the new wet razor? Having backed away in overwhelmed fear from the Gillette display rack (um, five blades?) now it seems I’ll be equally overloaded when dealing with rain on my windshield. Vauxhall (the UK name for Opel cars) has announced its Flatblade wipers - designed without joints, [...]
