Monthly Archives: May 2015

BMW i3 REX – Carbon Fiber EV at an Almost Affordable Price

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In November 2008, I sat with a group of journalists on a hotel terrace in Beverly Hills to learn about BMW’s Project i which had the aim of a building a 21st century megacity car. In the middle of the terrace sat a fairly conventional-looking grey MINI hatchback that frankly didn’t look all that advanced. However, the lessons learned from that car and the other 500 examples just like it, led directly to the BMW’s first true, next-generation automobile, the i3.

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2016 Chevrolet Camaro – Game On!

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Long before there was iPhone vs Android or Mac vs Windows, there was Mustang vs Camaro. Nearly 50 years after it began, the battle of the pony cars rages on in Detroit. The all-new sixth-generation Ford Mustang debuted in December 2013 and went on sale last four. In response, Chevrolet has just revealed its own sixth-generation, rear-drive, 2+2 sports coupe at a rainy special event at Detroit’s Belle Isle park.

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I can't wait to drive this beast

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2017 +Ford Motor Company GT

2017 Ford GT Spied Testing Sans Paint, Looks Like a Bad-Ass Supercar for the Apocalypse
It would appear as though Ford VP of design Moray Callum wasn’t kidding when he told us at the GT supercar’s 2015 Detroit auto show reveal that “the styling is 95 percent complete.” Our spy photographers managed to track down the first 2017 Ford GT prototype as it left Ford’s Dearborn headquarters, and aside from tailpipe extensions for emissions-testing […]

I made my first visit to the +General Motors Technical Center in 1986 when I was still an engineering co-op student at GMI

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In those pre-internet days when e-mail was still a rarity, I drove a couple of hundred miles from the St. Catherines engine plant to spend a couple of days in the massive R&D library doing research for a project. Since then, I've spent many more days in the various buildings on the campus as an engineer, journalist, pr writer and now analyst. Glad to see GM making this commitment to expand and modernize this amazing facility.

GM Investing $1 Billion in National Historic Landmark Warren Technical Center

Whether you started listening to podcasts in 2004 like I did or just jumped on the bandwagon with Serial, you should be listening WTF with Marc Maron

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Maron is a really great interviewer and he has recorded some exceptional conversations over the years. His recent chat with the original "shark jumper" Henry Winkler is a prime example to start with. Give it a listen and subscribe to Marc's show, you won't be disappointed.

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

– Episode 593 – Henry Winkler


Comedian Marc Maron is tackling the most complex philosophical question of our day – WTF? He’ll get to the bottom of it with help from comedian friends, celebrity guests and the voices in his own head. You loved him on Morning Sedition. You kinda liked him on The Marc Maron Show. You tolerated him on Break Room Live. Now, embrace him on a show from which he cannot be fired – WTF with Marc Maron.