After a short period of rest, submissions to the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool have picked up again over the last couple weeks, and it’s some nifty stuff. Take, for instance, the photo above from gravlguts, which nicely captures an assortment of spark plugs installed in an old straight eight of some sort. Or his other […]
Make sure to check back to FastLane this weekend for all things North American International Auto Show. We’ll post all of GM’s press conference videos right here, so stay tuned. And make sure to visit FYI on Saturday night for…
You might remember the Buick Riviera Concept that we wrote about last year here on FastLane. The Riviera will be at the North American International Auto Show this year, so if you’re going, make sure to check it out….
As our own Jeff Koch can attest, Southern California is an easy place to have your collector car jacked. One of the latest victims turned up on our My Hemmings pages a couple of days ago.
Robert ushered in the New Year in the worst way imaginable: Waking up to find his 1956 Nomad hotrod gone. […]
It is January 2008 and General Motors are changing rebates to promote early year sales. GM is finally offering an Owner Loyalty Bonus of $1000 on most all new vehicles. Past bonus cash has been conquest money for owning a non-GM vehicle. I know they…
This just in: Spotted on The GM test track, this early, preproduction Camaro Coupe. The new Camaro is quickly evolving into final form, but some of the details you see here (such as the headlamp design) may change before…
AIIDE (AI and Interactive Digital Entertainment) is the premier conference for artificial intelligence, games, and other forms of interactive digital entertainment (disclosure: I’m the general chair of AIIDE this year). The Call For Papers is now available. Papers are due April 22. The conference will be held October 22-24, 2008. The full CFP follows:
Way back in April, I showed a shot of the FilterMag that we had planned on testing on the HMX’s engine, once I had it running. Took eight months, but whatever.
So the last part of the camshaft break-in process is changing the oil. I figured we could then whack open the old oil filter and […]
When Frank Ruff left his comment on the previous Cadillacamino post, we just had to know what a Caribou conversion was. And see pics, of course. Well, Frank followed through on the pics of his 1978 Caribou-converted Cadillac…
… but Caribou, of Grover City, California, still seems to be a bit of a mystery. According to […]
Things are bad! And ten of them are the worst of all, the worst of all time. With that in mind, and in the spirit of looking into the bottom 5% of user-created content, Grand Text Auto presents you with this list of the 10 worst lists of 10 worst things.
[10] The 10 Best and […]
One of the most visible signs of the acquisition of MG-Rover by Nanjing (itself now owned by SAIC), has been the demolishing of the venerable factory at Longbridge over the last year.
Well, Nanjing may have been able to rip the factory down, but it looks as though they couldn’t erase its memory entirely, as very […]
While in game studies we often reference tabletop role-playing games — especially Dungeons & Dragons — there are few academic press publications that take them seriously, and much of the discussion situates tabletop games as computer game incunabula. Pat Harrigan and I decided to take a different approach with Second Person, inviting a range of […]
Mike Spurgeon, like us, wondered exactly who built this solid-tire well-drilling truck, currently sitting alongside the road in Acampo, California, so he shot some pics, none of which put us any closer to identifying it. One would think the headlamps faired into the grille shell would give it away…
I get back from an outta-town trip and this is the first thing I see in my inbox. Full press release:
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – January 9, 2008 – Officials with the Barrett-Jackson Auction Co. LLC, today announced that a settlement was reached on Jan. 7, 2008, in a suit filed against David L. Clabuesch in U.S. […]
Rick Wagoner and the Cadillac Provoq Concept Make sure to check out GM’s Media Online site for the full text from Chairman Rick Wagoner’s Tuesday remarks at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Rick’s speech included both highlights…
By Jim Taylor
Cadillac General Manager
Cadillac enters 2008 carrying a lot of momentum, and in the coming days we’ll be taking some big additional steps that I’m excited to preview for you.
Cadillac will extend momentum in two of the world’s most influential venues. This week we introduced the Cadillac Provoq Concept at the massive Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.
As with the AMX/3 pushmobile story, there’s always something good to be found in American Motoring, the club publication for the American Motors Owners Association. From Darryl Salisbury’s column in the September/October 2007 issue (yeah, we’re a little behind, but it’s still worth highlighting) came a history of the Budd XR-400, a sports-car-with-a-back-seat design proposal […]
Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures, a peer-reviewed online journal specializing in new media and net art, has a new issue out. It features work by Thom Swiss, Mark Marino, Braxton Soderman, Stephanie Strickland and Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo, Jaka Zeleznikar, Michael Peters, and Jeanne Hamming.
Never expected this.
While wandering the rows at Hershey last year, I ducked into one tent just to escape the rain for a few minutes and came across a table full of tether cars of all sorts and shapes. Snapped a pic, went on my way, and I didn’t think to get the vendor’s name or […]
By Bob Lutz
GM Vice Chairman
Exactly one year ago today we revealed the Chevrolet Volt to the world, and what a year it’s been…
Leading into last year’s North American International Auto Show, we felt the Volt was something special, but I have to admit, even I was surprised at the overwhelming response.