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Here's one Korean scoop our pals over at CNN are wishing they had. Our crack South Korean reporter filed this picture of the new
Hyundai Veracruz, coming to the
Detroit show in January and U.S. showrooms next year. Standard stuff on the
Honda Pilot-sized vehicle will be a stowaway third-row seat, a 3.8-liter V-6 engine, and a six-speed automatic transmission, as well as staility control and side curtain airbags. Stick with us for more pictures and specs as the Veracruz comes to light - and to Motown.
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Damn, is it the holiday season already? Nope - it's just Neiman Marcus reminding us that we don't make enough to buy a trip into space, or a
BMW M6 Convertible. We're hoping to scrape together the cash for Chick Fil-A today, 'cause we're in need of nuggets.
So
the grand alliance is off, and GM can focus on its own recovery. Does this mean
Ford will have to sit through six months of speculation before it can open its own can of Ghosn Be Gone?
Meanwhile, Toyota slammed one out of the park in September, boosting its sales about 20 percent. And even
Ford got in on the good vibrations with strong car sales. Maybe if gas does drop under $2 the whole idea of more auto alliances will seem silly.
Chilling thought or dark reality: Quentin Tarantino could do for
Kurt Russell and cars what he did for John Travolta and Burger King.
Rolls is getting smaller while MINI is getting bigger. In other news, TCC is fielding a basketball team of
Oompa-Loompas and donating our house
Isetta to
Manute Bol.
Volkswagen's new special editions remind us that our lives really don't have enough electric orange in them, although there was that Chinese take-out we ordered last week and can still taste.
Well, it's good to see
VW and its unions can agree on something, and they can get back to those grueling 35 hours of work this week.
And finally this week, we bid
a final adieu to Paris and its auto show - yes we know it's a week old but the jet lag just left us this morning, okay? Have a little patience for our creaky biological clocks.
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To a salsa backbeat, these dancers in white shrouds swayed to the new Mondeo. We danced along with them until the video crew next to us knocked us out cold for tripping on their cables.
Ford carved a Galaxy minivan out of ice, which gave us such a craving for whiskey. Just like every day.
What do you mean? Of course they wouldn't talk to us.
We almost typed in "girls," but caught ourself in a rare moment of forward thinking.
MINI spun its own house beat via the hands of Detroiter DJ Paige.
Speaking of that, here's
MINI's big ball. A sentence full of lewd oxymorons, no?
Rhinestone reverse cowgirl? Let's just say
Paris Hilton has this one down cold.
First it was taking over GM - now
Toyota has its own CIA and is thinking of setting its sights on, oh, Bulgaria.
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One Panamera...two Panamera...hold on, we're feeling a Latin rhythm here.
Has
the Governator really given up his now infamous HUMMERs? I mean, that would be like Bill Clinton giving up cigars, right? A man's gotta have a trademark.
Apparently at least a few of you remember who Cher is,
why she also owns a HUMMER, and care enough to vote in our off-year ballots. May Liberty shower her blessings on you - or just agree to shower with you.
Meanwhile, Ahnuld's Golden State is suing automakers, including
Toyota and
Honda, for damages stemming from greenhouse-gas emissions. Predictably, they didn't name Taco Bell to the suit, even though everyone knows it produces far more toxic gases.
Sebring! And you said
Chrysler had lost its derring-do! (What exactly is
derring-do?)
Our Franco file overfloweth with
next week's Paris show previews. There's Mondeo,
Touareg, and the only traditionally named superhero, the Avenger. We'll be reporting through sweat-soaked suits from the Expo on Thursday--stay tuned if you can stand the perspiration.
We're so cranky you'd think we hate everything about cars, but in truth, it's only really
six things we hate. Seven, if you count goofy names.
Given that
Ford's Edge will wear a pricetag of less than $26,000, and the
Lincoln version is going to sticker below $35,000, and that gas prices are dropping to $2, calculate how soon it will take
Ford to revert to truck-based utes if demand allows. Show your work.
What's a little pot and mushrooms between friends? Okay, now multiply that by about 5 and throw in some Louisiana state police and Willie Nelson. The sitcom pilot practically writes itself.
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It should come as no surprise to readers of this Web site—nay, any American who’s seen the red-headed stranger in concert or in the horrifically underacted Honeysuckle Rose (1980)—that Willie Nelson partakes of some illicit substances on occasion. So maybe the Louisiana cops who pulled over Bio-Willie’s tour bus were seeking entertainment too when they tossed the bus and found shrooms and Mary Jane hiding inside along with the sound equipment near Lafayette. The citing officer “smelled the strong odor of marijuana" in the bus, surprising no one. Some 1.5 pounds of marijuana and about a quarter-pound of mushrooms were found. Citations were given. Comments were declined. And at the end of the day the 73-year-old Nelson was on the road again. Hopefully, with someone sober driving?
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