Citroen has let slip another drip in the GT by Citroen reveal, and this time it’s a video showing off the dramatic shapes of “The Drive of Your Life.” Dig those mirrors, and the glasshouse swept back in monumental fashion. Whatever is pushing the car’s massive rims apparently needs a lot of air, with two raked scoops behind the canopy and two more on the sides ahead of the rear wheels. And the rear end of the car looks like — dare we say it — a tail… It’s Mach 5 if the car comes together like we expect, or platypus if it doesn’t. The Paris Motor Show reveal is in but a few days, and you can mark us down as officially excited. Check out the video after the jump and more teaser pics in the gallery below. Thanks for the tip, Nick!
A very short clip that says so much, there’s really only one thing to add: be very, very careful out there. You never know who you’re driving next to… Follow the jump to see the vid.
Click above for a high-res gallery of the 2010 New Look Citroen C4 and robot
We often wonder why French wine, fashion and architecture make total sense to us, yet French commercials often make us go “Um, ok, all right….” Citroen’s C4 dancing robot first appeared back in 2004 — well before Optimus Prime and crew teamed up with film director Michael Bay — and since then he’s done four more commercials to showcase the car that is “alive with technology.”
With this latest clip, make that “staying alive with technology.” Roaming the streets of New York, he’s kitted out in chrome teeth and a glitter beret, jiving out to the Bee Gees while he performs style checks in any mirrored surface and poses for pictures. We have to admit his dance moves are hot, but Ironhide would probably shoot him if given the chance.
As for his alter ego, the New Look Citroen C4, it gets a grille, curvier hood and headlight treatment to match the C5. In back, transparent crystal taillamps replace the previous units. Inside, Citroen’s latest NaviDrive has a 7-inch translucent screen pre-programmed for all of Europe. Two new engines, developed with BMW, will provide the car with 120 hp or 150 hp. Most intriguing, the car comes with an integrated, scented air freshener — because all that dancing can make a robot sweat. Watch the new commercial for yourself after the jump.
Jack White, one half of the Whites in the White Stripes, wrote and produced the new theme song for Quantum of Solace, sung by White and Alicia Keyes. Turns out that White also — unwittingly and unhappily — wrote the new theme song for Coke Zero. Coca-Cola has used an instrumental version of “Another Way to Die,” as well as a couple of Astons, to promote its diet drink that tastes like a diet drink even though they say it doesn’t. In our opinion, the commercial gets a resounding “meh,” but the song is thoroughly groovy. Follow the jump to check it out. Thanks for the tip, Marcus!
The trailer for the latest Bond film is out, and you could be disappointed: they pushed the release date of the film in the U.S. back a week. If you can get over that, you’ll find that everything else is two minutes and twenty-eight seconds of “Holy %$#@! that was awesome!” It’s almost like they took that ridiculous (as in: good) intro from Casino Royale and turned it into an entire film. If there’s enough storyline to keep us interested and tie it all together, well, then this movie is going to be the best payback tale since The Professional. Check out the trailer after the jump.
Despite the fact that supercars are all about status, flash and money there is something unavoidably appealing about them; maybe it’s the power, speed and handling. I can still remember the first time I saw a Lamborghini Countach in person. The scale of the car was amazing, sleek low and incredibly wide. In fact most […]
Thanks to your response to our first batch of historical Fiat racing/Abarth videos, we scared up two more from Fiat, these in FiaVision. Which still doesn’t have sound because in Italy, the cars speak for themselves.
Found this terrific Chevrolet promotional film about the 1960 Corvair on YouTube. It’s a 6-minute-plus answer to the musical question, “Is the Corvair the new compact that can deliver the goods?”
They drove it along a river bank, at Lime Rock Park, and across a fair amount of the unpaved part of the U.S., and topped […]
Monday, when our weekend dreams of glory metamorphose into workaday humdrum. Any wonder, then, that more than once a driver’s fancy has imagined the view out of their human transport pod as something a little more…lively?
Paul E. Smith is one. He’s been working on his 1989 Dodge Caravan SE for years now, and now runs […]
We have to say that Jay-Z is officially one of our favorite recording artists.
Not so much for his awesome music, but for the cars he uses in his vids. Just
a few weeks ago we showed you the Monte Carlo-set video for "Show Me What You Got" with Dale Earnhardt, Jr. and […]
In the video above, Ratan Tata, chairman of the Tata Motors, responds to critics who say the Nano is not safe and pollutes. Here’s what he said yesterday:
Let me assure you and also assure our critics that the car we have designed and that we will be presenting to you today will indeed meet all the current safety requirements of a modern day car. Of late, when it became known that we will in fact be making such a car, the attention has moved to questioning the pollution it would create. Let me again assure those who have concerns for the environment, that the car we present you today will meet all current legislated emission criteria and will have a lower pollution level than even a two-wheeler being manufactured in India today.
Concerns are also now being expressed about the congestion that could be caused by the existence of our small car in large numbers. I believe this needs to be put in the right perspective. There is no doubt that India is woefully behind its neighbors in infrastructure. The government is now endeavoring to address this situation with its new road policy. Looking ahead, five years from today, were we to produce and sell 500,000 small cars every year, we would then, at the end of five years, constitute approximately 2.5 percent of all passenger vehicles in the country. This could hardly be considered the nightmare of congestion that is being raised today about our new small car.
Below the fold is another video where Ratan explains that he made the Nano because of unsafe driving on scooters by families. Also below the fold is a video where Ratan says the Nano will indeed retail for 1-lakh because “a promise is a promise.” What do you think, readers? I have to admit, I still have doubts but I’m really impressed and excited with what he says.
