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Top Gear America's Reasonably Priced Car outed as Suzuki SX4 {Autoblog}
Oct 19th 2010 3:38PM Dominic Monaghan is a native of Middle Earth, not the U.S.
Volkswagen wants to supply F1 with new four-cylinder "world engine" {Autoblog}
May 6th 2010 3:32PM There is no chance that F1 would have a sole engine supplier. None. Zip. VW will be one of many to provide the new small-displacement turbo motors- which sounded great during the last turbo era, Patrick.
Report: USF1 team not dead yet, may miss early races {Autoblog}
Feb 25th 2010 3:10PM Crabby, your ignorant comments reflect the thoughts of most casual F1 fans, sadly, and many people from the Continent. Not sure where you're getting your financial insight from, but hopefully you recognize that the financial crisis is not limited to the US, and that many high-profile sponsors of existing F1 teams are American as well. You also fail to recognize that much of the technology in F1 has come from American companies and investment, and that there are actually some reasonably high-tech manufacturers located in the US. Think about it the next time you board a 737, use a computer, get healthcare, etc. You finish with a swipe at Fox/Murdoch, so I think we can safely put you in the America-sucks-and-i-wish-i-was-backpacking-through-Spain-with-that-hairy-legged-chick-again camp. Laid off much?
That said, your initial statement was correct. Windsor/Anderson should have lined up the money before they made any announcements about entering the championship. Ain't got nothin' to do with Charlotte.
VIDEO: The Black Stig is back? {Autoblog}
Feb 5th 2009 5:54PM Nitrous octane? I think they mean nitrous oxide.
SPOILER ALERT: 24 Hours of Spa {Autoblog}
Aug 5th 2008 8:21AM Short memory span, eh guys? Surely you are old enough to remember SpeedChannel before they were acquired by Fox. They did in fact televise DTM, FIA GT, and assorted other Euro series. I agree that their current lineup goes overboard on NASCAR but that's pretty much exactly what they said they would do.
"I'm sure that thousands of Americans would tune in to watch and enjoy MotoGP, WRC, DTM or LeMans."
There's your problem, Kitko. TV viewership needs millions of viewers, not thousands.
Champions League final in Moscow: The British are coming! The British are coming! {Gadling}
May 6th 2008 10:28AM Ignorant article by someone who obviously knows nothing about either football or hooliganism. 40,000 hooligans? Please. The English have a reputation for hooliganism (note: not the "British", as the Scots and Welsh are extremely well-behaved) but to suggest that all 40,000 traveling fans are hooligans is ludicrous.
VW also planning engine, transmission plant in the U.S. {Autoblog}
Jan 24th 2008 3:38PM SC actually lost out on some plants (MB in Tuscaloosa for one) because they weren't willing to offer such aggressive tax breaks after landing BMW. With high unemployment here, it would be great to bring in more high-tech manufacturing jobs.
Spy Shots: 2009 Mazda6 {Autoblog}
Mar 1st 2007 9:05AM Hopefully they won't add too much weight to the new model- that's one advantage of the current 6 that I'm not eager to give away.
Top Gear crew visits U.S.A., will never return again {Autoblog}
Feb 14th 2007 10:08AM The British are disgraceful. They were at one time a useful civilization, exporting scurvy and fat-legged pale girls all over the world. However, Queen Margaret Thatcher the Second, who was King of the Scots, impounded every toothbrush during the War of the Roses (1100 A.D.-7 B.C.). Soon all the British subjects in places like Indiana, Togo, and Upper China were rebelling against the heavy taxes on televisions (called "telly"), elevators (called "lifts"), and chips (called "deep fried potato biscuits with assorted flavorings, which come in a convenient packet").
After these primitive societies had thrown off the yoke of East Anglican rule, rejecting the time-honored British traditions of singing in the rain, inventing silly walks, and public vomiting, the Britannians were forced to accept their role as a European backwater, pitied by fat Danes and skinny Ayrabs alike. Soon the proud Anglo-Saxon military tradition was consigned to the rubbish heap of historical afterthought. They were soundly defeated at the Battle of Waterloo by a drunken anti-semite with his face painted blue.
Presently, the UK has annexed Great Brittania and most of Northern Ireland (called "Norn Earl"), except for the parts near France, which has threatened to invade and conquer the frog-eating, skirt-wearing Englanders.
P.S. Fat Frank Lampard is an embarrassment to the national squad.
Michelin lands $1.7b Pentagon contract {Autoblog}
Feb 2nd 2007 11:36AM I would have preferred to see Goodyear win this too, but keep in mind that Michelin employs over 23,000 people in North America and I doubt many of them will complain about new business.
Oh yeah, almost forgot: Silentbob, if you know as much about cars as you do the world economy and oil markets, you are obviously in the wrong place. You will dismiss me as a neocon warmonger (and I am neither), but surely you understand that A) our soldiers in Iraq aren't stationed at the oil fields- we could have invaded 5% of Iraq and controlled the oil fields, while staying completely out of Baghdad, Falluja, etc.; and B) it would have certainly been easier to invade Canada, Mexico, or Venezuela, all of which provide more oil to the U.S. than Iraq.
