Porsche Made a Killing on VW

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This is a great little post about how Porshe made over 7 billion Euros through it’s manangement (and manipulation) of VW’s stock.  It’s quite clever.

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The Grindhouse is a Double Dose of Awesome

Tarantino and Rodriguez are teaming up to do a double feature called The Grindhouse.  It’s a movie that shows 2 separate films back-to-back. The first (Rodriguez’s) is a horror movie called Planet Terror which includes has a chick with 1 normal let and 1 leg as an assault rifle.  The second (Tarantino’s) is an action adventure flick with a scarred (physically and emotionally) Kurt Russell who drives a tricked out car and kicks some ass.  It’s as if you took all the great parts of Knight Rider, Roadhouse, Tango & Cash into a room with a gallon of whiskey and then made it all ironic.  At least that’s what i’m expecting.  See for yourself….

Knight Rider is Coming Back

They’re finishing up the script and getting ready to remake the original pilot episode “Knight of the Phoenix” into a feature film.  One thing that has been confirmed: Hasslehoff will not be in the film.  Below is one of the proposed cars for K.I.T.T. (which is a Koenigsegg CCS) although the rumors are that it’ll be more like a 2006 Camero.  All details are fleshed out in this article.  Whatever the car is, i loved the show and am pretty excited to see it come to the big screen.

Coolest New Fuel Efficient Car

Driving sucks. I've been driving back and forth from DC to Frederick alot lately and putting all those miles on Chester (my car) has been taking its toll.  That, and i'm feeling a need to be better to our environment.  Our poor planet hates us and i want to be one of the good guys.  Plus, Chester is sooo pretentious that he doesn't even care. 

So, what can be done? Well, take a look at the new CLEVER car.  It's a kickass one-seater.  Mixing the efficiency and compactness of a motorcycle with the comfort and safety of a car, the CLEVER car can go up to 80 mph is tops on my list of what i want to get to tool around town in. 

I was very psyched on the Tango's from Commuter Cars, but they seem to be a little to futuristic in a bad way – in a similar way that everyone wearing silver colored full body suits (onesies) with a purple 'V' on the front is futuristic in a bad way.  (Note – the CLEVER car is futuristic cool similar to shooting laser beams out of pencil is cool).  An amazing thing about the Tango is that it's an electric car and can go 0-60 in 4 seconds, so it's fast as hell and totally environment-friendly.  The Tango (see pics) is closer to reality – you can order it now – and while it would be a fun way to get around town, i like the look of my half-motorcycle/half-car CLEVER.