– When we arrived at the former den of debauchery, we found a young woman standing out front wearing only a bright-red, high-cut one-piece bathing suit out of which swelled a positively unnatural volume of cocoa-hued breast and butt flesh. She wasn’t there for the entertainment of a couple of stout, Northern white boys and a fast-talking Brit, all wilting from the heat and atmospheric moisture. In fact, as far
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– Someone had better get a wet vac to our office, stat, because upon seeing Volkswagen’s just-unveiled Golf-based race car concept, drool flowed in torrents. Torrents, people! Besides looking like a GTI that’s gone on an intake bender, pumped up its guns at the gym, and popped some roll-cage Viagra, the Golf’s most notable feature is that it’s just a Golf, sort of. There is no “R” badging anywhere, and
-Man, the used Ferrari market must not be as strong as people thought it was: This 1986 Ferrari Testarossa, an original car used in the iconic TV show Miami Vice, is going up for sale for a third time at Mecum’s Monterey auction next month. – -The last time we checked in on this immaculate white vintage supercar, it was listed on eBay for a cool $1.75 million. That was in
– Paul Feig, director of the upcoming Ghostbusters movie, tweeted out a few pictures of the revamped Ecto-1 that the lady Ghostbusters will drive. It’s, uh, a lot different than the old one. – #whattheygonnadrive pic.twitter.com/bBLEhrfTEQ – — Paul Feig (@paulfeig) July 8, 2015 – – Even to someone who hasn’t memorized the entire Ghostbusters canon, this is very obviously a completely different animal from the iconic 1959 Cadillac ambulance
– Decades are measured by calendars, yet the eras they represent do not always fit neatly in the small boxes. Cultural historians, for example, usually peg the end of the 1960s at the infamous December 1969 Rolling Stones concert at Altamont Speedway, during which a member of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang, acting as security, stabbed and killed a pistol-wielding member of the audience. We might ourselves look back 20
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– The state of California wants to make zero-emission vehicles more enticing to average buyers who may not yet be able to afford such technology. As of July 1, average-income families will get a bigger tax rebate on the purchase of new fuel-cell, electric, or plug-in hybrid vehicles. The twist is that the rebate disappears completely for high-income buyers. – As Damon Lavrinc reports at Jalopnik, the new incentive structure replaces California’s
– A 1967 Corvette Sting Ray is our time machine for visiting the era when America and Car and Driver came of age. The 1960s marked the arrival of the Beach Boys, the Beatles, and the Stones—not to mention modern birth control, space travel, and draft-card burning—so it’s no wonder this nation’s psyche was irrevocably twisted. C/D contributed to the chaos by penetrating the DMZ separating import worshippers from domestic-car
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