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Buy A Nissan Leaf – Get Free Polar Bear Hugs

admin — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:36:14 +0000

Nissan Leaf – You Claim to be a EV. You are not what the average American (or me for that matter) even truly understands.

But, a Polar Bear hugging a man in the burbs, I get.

You think Mr Polar Bear would kick it with me @ my fav dive bar? (But, I digress)

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Mr Bean – Riding on Top of his Mini Cooper

admin — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 02:39:33 +0000

Where Mini Cooper =

Mr Bean Riding a Mini Cooper Chair

Well hey there lil Mr Bean. What Mr Bean movie is this from. Does Anyone know?

I dig the black hood on his Mini Cooper. Shabby sheik, indeed.

Lexus – Its Not Just For Dinner

admin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:49:59 +0000

This was spotted by a friend in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles Today. One may ask if they were trying to be ironic, or if they were trying to get spotted for my awesome blog that drives crazy metrics (read; 350 visits) a month to, or if they were trying to have their restaurant become the flagship (get it, flagship) caterer for all Japanese execs who are visiting from OEM Toyota in Torrance. Whatever it may be -

Chickens and Lexus. Yay

Top Gear gifs – Great Top Gear Moment!

admin — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:10:36 +0000

Top Gear is Back! Everyone loves a great Jeremy Clarkson clip, but I think this clip and gif takes the metaphorical small car equivalent of cake.

I’m not sure how everyone at work in cube farm ville feel; but this was beyond awesome.

Enjoy!

Hmmm. Perhaps a 3 wheel’d vehicle is not the best option. Home made that is.

Downtown LA; Audi’s new Diesel Sidewalk ads

admin — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:07:31 +0000

We @ Small Cars only Love Diesel’s. Yeah, everyone remembers the time when you or or neighbor had a loud, smoky Mercedes diesel. But we all kept them in the family because they were reliable, efficient (our 82 300sd Turbo Diesel averaged 26 mpg until we got rid of in in 1999) and was devoid of any kind of fun; making it the perfect first hand me down car.

Most of these cars got a chance at a second life with biodiesel, and became hipster status symbols in Silverlake, Brooklyn or parts of the bay area. While still very cool, diesel was still kinda dirty.

New diesel’s dont have that problem, nor is California’s ancient law (that has now been removed) forbidding new diesel’s being sold. Also, new diesels with urea are cleaner than the predecessors, while putting out some major torque. VW’s new campaign with its talking VW BUG is cute, but Audi’s guerilla marketing tactics are much more suave.

Spotted by Blogdowntown

From Blogdowtown; Diesel no longer a Dirty Word

The stencils do not use chalk, but just a high pressure washer, so the words are just “cleaned” into the street. +1 for Audi. Watcha you got BMW 335d?

Mcdonald’s to Offer Electric Car Charging Stations

admin — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:43:57 +0000

Last thing I want to do is give McDonald’s a free plug (I avoid their food like pinkberry and the plague!) - and must we remember that Walmart did it back in the mid 90s? I’m not sure what their target demo is, but something tells me its not a CTO in Silcon Valley.

Mcdonald’s will open its first ‘green’ restaurant in cary, north carolina, USA. Constructed from eco-friendly materials and technologies, the restaurant will include ChargePoint™ networked charging stations from coulomb technologies, a benefit for those of you out there with electric cars. By partnering with novacharge the new mcdonald’s will give electric vehicle drivers somewhere to recharge their vehicles
while having a meal. The ‘greener’ mcdonald’s is set to open july 14th.

Why must McDonald’s go down this path? Probably to encourage the more eco friendly to visit their restaurant and eat their delicious food. What does one do when your car is charging for one hour in the parking lot?

Chargepoint charging system at Mcdonalds

A double quarter pound with cheese, fries, chicken nuggets, and a shake. *shudders*

Top Gear’s Project Sipster; 70 mpg/0-60 7 sec/under 7k

admin — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 22:24:55 +0000

This is GREAT television!

Project Sipster is something I would love to do when I actually have a garage. Oh the woes of living in a 100 year old building.

0-60 in 7 seconds
Under $7,000 to build your own
70 mpg

Feel free to comment with projects of your own guys. By the way; American Top Gear is dead. No stations picked it up.

Small Car. Big Heart.

admin — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 20:40:10 +0000

This bumper sticker rules.

A year ago today…the Lotus Trunk Lock experiment

admin — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:24:44 +0000

The story goes this way; We were at a friends BBQ, when drove up in a Orange Lotus Exige.

Our buddy Jon drives cars for a living, and we all swooooned over it. Did we discuss the different track ready parts on it? Nope. Just if I could fit in it.

And I almost did, if it wasn’t for that pesky hatch!

We posted the Original Lotus Trunk Post from BewBews (QV’s blog) and then cross posted it on Honda-tech and VWvortex. Next thing we know, his blog is bombarded with unique vistors and we are on Jalponik!