In the past few weeks, I’ve had more than my fair share of car trouble.
First, the cooling fan exploded on my 1991 BMW 750iL. Just flew to pieces. In the process of flying about under the hood, the fan blades managed to poke five (!) holes in my six-month-old radiator. They […]
I was dropping my trash off this morning and found this bike leaning against the dumpster. I had to have a picture. I probably should have kept it to see what I could have gotten for it on Ebay.
I dig the purple paint.
You might need a tetanus shot just from looking at pictures of those […]
Ford’s Sync system lets drivers control various functions of their audio system, MP3 players and bluetooth phone without ever taking their hands off the wheel or their eyes off the road. It’s voice activated and appears to work well. Best of all they have great commercials for it.
But it’s powered by Microsoft.
There’s no doubt […]
When I was at the Detroit Auto Show last month, I tried out Volvo’s lane departure prevention simulator (pictured). It is a great idea, if it can be implemented well. If the vehicle senses that you are leaving your lane, it gives you aural (a beep) and tactile (rumbling in your seat cushion) alerts. It […]
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the CB1100F concept bike at the 2007 Tokyo Motor Show. After a bit more poking around the Motor Show website, I came across these bikes.
Suzuki GSX1400 Special Edition
Yamaha XS-V1 Sakura
I love them both. No word on when or if either of these will enter production.
Which is […]
The last time I noticed that my Car and Driver magazine seemed a bit light in the content department, I counted how many pages of ads versus how many pages of content there was.
The results were a bit surprising, with only 40% of the magazine’s pages not being paid ads.
I just got my March […]
According to the good fellows at Jalopnik, the CB1100F will be in Honda showrooms as early as next year.
Where do I send my deposit?
