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For all of the billions of dollars squandered on the Sochi Winter Olympics, it's…
When will governments stop wasting money going after the Olympics? Sadly, probably never as long as there are billions to handed out to corrupt cronies?
Journalists at Sochi are live-tweeting their hilarious and gross hotel experiences
“My hotel has no water. If restored, the front desk says, ‘do not use on your face because it contains something very dangerous.'”
+Car and Driver Magazine talks to members of the team that crafted the new Must…
2015 Ford Mustang: In-Depth with the Team that Made It Happen – Feature
A behind-the-scenes look at how the new, more modern Mustang was created. Read the story and see photos of the 2015 Mustang at Car and Driver.
Peter De Lorenzo nails it again with his withering critique of the NASCAR-style officiating…
Prior to this year, Scott Atherton and his ALMS management team, handled that series with utter professionalism, setting technical rules that teams had to live by. Now under the ownership of the France family (who also control NASCAR) the constant tinkering abuse of in-race cautions threatens to sink what was so great about ALMS. ?
The doomsday scenario facing Jim France. – Fumes – Autoextremist.com ~ the bare-knuckled, unvarnished, high octane truth…
By Peter M. De Lorenzo
Detroit. Now that the dust has begun to settle from the fiasco at the …
The techniques to design cars have changed a lot, but some old-school methods still…
Old fashioned clay and tape still play a big part in developing the shape of cars like the new +Ford Motor Company #Mustang ?
The Language of Tape Design
A look at the age-old technique of using full scale clay models and tape in the automotive design process
Pop culture icons come together as +Stern Pinball, Inc. and +Ford Motor Company show…
Stern is unveiling the first of three pinball games paying tribute to 50 years of Mustang at the Chicago Auto Show this week. Game designer George Gomez talks about his passion for Mustang and how he incorporated it into the new games.
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Tired of overpriced and overproduced new commercials, check out the ad for the original…
In the 1960s, instead of a plastic potato to stick eyes, ears, mouth and hats onto, you had to supply your own potato?
While there is no shortage of visual effects in the Need for Speed, there's plenty…
Despite the fact that most of the cars seen on screen in the movie are not the real thing (including the McLaren P1 and Koenigsegg) you still need powerful cars carrying the cameras to shoot this running footage. The NFS crew used a supercharged Ford Mustang, a Mercedes-Benz ML and an Audi A6 for this duty.?
Former +Mercedes-Benz USA PR honcho Geoff Day share's his thoughts on supplying…
Day speaks from experience in this column, having been involved in having Sex and the City star stand alongside Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche at the Detroit Auto Show a few years ago along with other other stunts.
To me seeing cars and celebs in these environments does more to turn me away rather than toward the car. Audi has long been particularly egregious in this regard although many companies have been guilty.
If celebs buy the cars with their own dollars, promote it. If you have to pay them to sit in your car forget it. ?
Automakers need to stop stalking celebrities
Have automakers been giving celebrities too many free wheels?