Winding Road has new shots posted of the disguised Hyundai Equus doing the prototype steeplechase on the roads around metropolitan Detroit. To review, the Equus will be Hyundai's new flagship sedan when it debuts sometime in '07 as a 2008 model. It's expected to be offered with both V6 and V8 power, and will likely retail in the $30,000-$35,000 range.
Let's say it's winter, you're spending a lot of time in the house, and you're starting to get a little bit of that old cabin fever. This is not the time for t-shirts – it's like freezing out there – but your thoughts drift ahead to springtime, when it's time to show your skin once again. All this sitting around has made you a bit peeved, and you're feeling feisty. What to do?
I know that there's an Open Source Car, but I haven't heard about an Open Source truck repair project? Some folks who blog over at Blogspot have found themselves in possession of a GMC S15 truck that has been converted to run on batteries. The trouble is that there are some loose wires here and some rust spots there, and the guys with the truck don't seem to know enough about EVs to figure out what needs to be done to make things right. I figured Aut
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The Club of Pioneers website, "enabled" and founded by BMW, opened for business on December 19th. The dramatic name matches the vision of the site, which focuses on clean energy (and a lot of hydrogen). Right now one of the main features is the chance to submit text to the site, which will then be projected on a bit of 1,000-year-old ice in a cave in Austria (and a World Heritage Site). Anyone can submit a
We haven't checked in with Daryl Hannah in a while, but Ecorazzi reminded me to check out her website, which was recently upgraded to version 2.0 (if the site loads slow enough, you can see a little message that says "Site 2.0 Yay! xo." Hannah's site is meant, in part, to promote Love Life, her weekly green culture and lifestyle video podcast. The KnowDummy section contains article and musings about green life.
How did you find your last gig? Craig's List? Help Wanted ad? Nepotism? Supercar builder Mosler took an interesting tact to find mechanically inclined talent in the land of oranges and botched ballots, by placing a full-page, color advert in Grassroots Motorsports.
