You wondered what your clothes meant about you, even though you consider “dressy” gear the stuff with buttons. Have no fear, Earnhardt fan: the new Mustang cologne from Aramis doesn’t make you a “metrosexual” or even a “petrosexual” (we’re assuming that means full of gas at inopportune moments).
Apparently, you’re a “retrosexual” — someone “concerned about how he looks but he's also more of a guy's guy," says Jesse Porto, the director of marketing for Aramis at Estee Lauder, which plans to flood drugstores and Sears with the new scent in August. "He's rugged, athletic and comfortable with his own masculinity."
Porto and the smell squad over at Lauder are rolling out the PR as the bottled stuff starts appearing in stores nationwide. We haven’t seen any yet, but apparently the Mustang cologne is on sale now. By the end of the summer you’ll be able to buy it at Wal-Mart, Kohl’s, and all sorts of mass-market shopping places.
According to the press release – not presented in Smell-O-Vision or anything cool—the mansmell will be “bright and musky with lavender, ginger, and lemon and undertones of pipe tobacco and cedarwood, while the base is finished with amber, fir balsam, and patchouli."
You know, maybe they threw out metrosexual too early?
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Posted in : 2007, Ford, Just for Fun, Shoppers
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Think you can’t be caught by an alternative-fuel vehicle for speeding? The Wayne State University police have some news for you. They’re patrolling the Detroit campus with a silver Mercedes-Benz “F-Cell” fuel-cell-powered vehicle—and they’re giving out citations. The school says earlier this month, it issued the first “eco-friendly traffic stop” ticket. The stop, on June 5, gave a moving violation to a student who ran a stop sign on her way to class.
Here’s what the school’s dean of engineering, Ralph Kummler, says about the vehicle: “This glimpse of the future in alternative energy transportation is quite encouraging.”
And here’s our best guess as to what the student said: “(*&#$(* fuel-cell **&(*#@!!!”
The F-Cell is one of more than 100 DaimlerChrysler fuel-cell vehicles being tested around the world as the company tries to move toward a hydrogen-based transportation system.
Wayne State University's hydrogen-fueled police vehicle makes world's first eco-friendly traffic stop
Posted in : 2007, Electric Cars, Just for Fun, Shoppers
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Whatever floats your boat…or in the case of Gibbs Technologies, whatever floats your amphibious automobile. After some earlier setbacks, the company is getting ready to build its Aquada, a three-seat combination boat and sports car. Through two spin-off companies, the partners plan to launch a land/sea combination of all-terrain vehicle and personal water craft, dubbed the Quadski, as well as an amphibious military vehicle. Paul Eisenstein, Publisher of TheCarConnection.com, has the story.
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There’s the law of the land—and now, on the road, there’s God’s law. Or Pope Benedict XVI’s version of it.
In one of the more odd stories we’ve seen this year, the Vatican released a set of road rules today, Reuters reports. The 36-page document, called “Guidelines for the Pastoral Care of the Road,” offers up its own 10 Commandments for what to do and not do behind the wheel.
Among the don’ts: drinking and driving, speeding, or using a car for personal glory or for sin (our favorite). Road rage, pedestrian safety, maintenance and flipping people off also are covered in the document, which appealed to the “noble tendencies” of men and women.
The one thing that’s cool behind the wheel? Praying. But you probably guessed that.
Vatican City, where the Pope and his men roll, has a speed limit of about 20 miles an hour and hasn’t had a car accident in about 18 months.
Vatican issues "10 Commandments" for good motorists
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Okay, so we’re not aware of many things more useful than
a barbecue pit or
a hoops backboard attached to your truck’s trailer hitch. But then, on the way to driving the new Volvo XC70, we skimmed through the best catalog you can shop from at 35,000 feet—yep, Skymall—and found the perfect accoutrement to your weekend of exhaust-soaked nirvana. Now, at long last, you can “be the king of the tailgate” with these trailer-hitch sling chairs. You’ll hang like a freakin’ Christmas ornament from the back of your Ranger in these steel-frame jobbies that attach to any standard-size trailer hitch. Pop a cold one, sit back and wait for the stadium gates to open – or just whistle tra-la-la in your driveway while Junior mows the lawn. We’d say this thing’s perfect for Father’s Day, if Father’s Day wasn’t last Sunday. Oh, and pardon us for pointing it out, but the guy on the right looks like he might exceed the chair’s weight rating of 250 pounds. We’re just sayin’.
Get your own sling chair without going to those humiliating stores
Posted in : 2007, Gadgets/Products, Just for Fun, Shoppers
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Marty Padgett June 25th, 2007
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