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Audi Slot Car Track

Audi recently whipped up an interesting piece of advertising in Toronto's Royal Bank Plaza. Partnering with Slot Mods USA, the German manufacturer created a handmade slot car track, complete with a set of scale Audi A4 models. Slot Mods USA employed some pretty interesting tech to create the cars. Using an industrial laser scanner, the company built a digital outline of the sedan before sending it off to a 3D printer to create the bodyshells. Slot Mods USA then sourced an all-wheel-drive slot car chassis from a separate company.

Given how much emphasis Audi puts on traction, the cars were built with special magnets to keep them planted on the track, and each racer was built with a mini camera that can feed images to an iPad wirelessly. Drivers control each car via an iPad app, and the camera feed gives operators an idea of what it's like to drive on the scale creation. Check out a few videos of the track below.

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iClarkson iPad App
The best iPad App... in the world - Click above to watch video after the jump

Jeremy Clarkson has gone 21st century. The co-host of the BBC's Top Gear, along with publisher Penguin Books, has created an app for the iPad called iClarkson, and it features over 140 of his automotive reviews that were taken from his books Driven to Distraction and Don't Stop Me Now.

The app is styled to look like a study and is loaded with interactive features. Images of automobiles adorn the "walls", Clarkson's drum kit sits in the corner and many more surprises are in store for iPad users who pony up the $7.99 to buy iClarkson. Click past the jump to see the app in action.

[Source: YouTube, Apple]

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Bentley and Jaguar iPad apps - Click above for high-res image gallery

Bentley and Jaguar have new iPad apps that will take you on extended tours through their brands. Not just ways to configure cars and look at photos, the Bentley app will showcase its Crewe factory and Le Mans history, while Jaguar puts you in an XKR on test tracks around the world and on maps that explain what happened and where it happened in Jag history.

Click the links below to get the version that's right for you, and get a taste of both in the gallery of high-res images below.


Gallery: Bentley and Jaguar iPad apps


[Source: Bentley, Jaguar U.S., Jaguar UK]

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Here's a shocker for our loyal readers - Volkswagen has just released a special app just for the iPad. Sarcasm aside, the German automaker has released a new consumer magazine for the tablet called the Digital Automotive Space, or DAS. The company plans to publish content on its products via the digital magazine quarterly, and it will be available in five languages. VW says the app will feature plenty of tricks that will be unavailable anywhere else, including unique 360-degree images, videos and other multimedia doodads.

The DAS is free, which is a good thing considering that it's essentially one big advertisement. Be sure to check it out in the Apple App Store and let us know what you think. Hit the jump to see the press release.

[Source: VW]

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Hot Rod Art Book app for the iPad - Click above to watch video after the jump

If you want to draw hot rods and learn the basics of drawing cars, then you'll want to check out the Hot Rod Art Book for the iPad. A combination of the text-only book and the videos you'll find at the book's site and Vimeo, it contains 100 pages of guidance and tips from 13 professional hot rod artists and 1.5 hours of videos. It's not going to instantly turn you into Hot Wheels designer Dwayne Vance, one of the contributors, but you'll know how to pen the Powell Motors Homer just like you've always wanted.

Follow the jump for a sample of the video tutorials you'll find in the book.

[Source: Apple iTunes]

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Car and Driver on the iPad - Click above for high-res image gallery

Despite my better judgement, I had an iPad delivered to my house last weekend. The reasons for the purchase varied from the inexplicable to the absurd, but one of my primary interests was how magazines would adopt/adapt to the new format. Like it or not, Apple's a leader in mobile content delivery and any publishing house is going to want to be on the "it" platform, just as developers downloaded the iPhone SDK in hoards and the App store became the dominant force for mobile applications.

I've checked out some of the general interest pubs (NYT, Time, etc.), which are obviously still getting their sea-legs (and falling on their faces, in many cases), but for gearheads the pickings are non-existent - save Zinio (iTunes link).


Gallery: Car and Driver on the iPad

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Car and Driver on iPad : A stopgap for the future of online mags originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:02:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Cadillac CTS Coupe iPad application - Click above to enlarge

If you're a Cadillac-loving Mac-o-file counting down the days until you can get your hands on the new iPad, we've got incredible news for you. The marketing folks at the Wreath and Crest have collaborated with Cool Hunting to build a CTS Coupe iPad app. The new application will, for 12 weeks, underscore the CTS Coupe's design and performance, along with "unique content" designed to draw fans of Cadillac's two-door art project.

Josh Rubin, founder and Editor-in-Chief of Cool Hunting, calls the CTS a "muse for our design and technology stories," adding "we're excited that our relationship with Cadillac enabled new opportunities for our readers to engage with our content while pushing the innovative ways we work with brands."

As you can see from the image above (click for high-resolution pic), CTS Coupe info dominates the Cool Hunting homepage, with Cool Hunting content taking up the bottom half of the page. Bartle Bogle & Hegarty New York, Cadillac's new marketing agency of record, worked with Cool Hunting to create the app. Hit the jump to read over the Cadillac press release.


Gallery: Live: 2011 Cadillac CTS Coupe


[Source: GM]

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