The CarBuzzard reported that a British motorist was arrested while attempting sex with his pickup truck. From the few details available in the “g-rated” blog the act was a straightforward hood seduction but met England’s definition of perversion and the perp was jailed. . . . . British motorwriter Mark Hales told Media Digest that… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Passing Scene
Socializing With The Masses, Driverless Cars and Superbumpers
When Bugatti opts for a presence on Facebook, Flickr and YouTube, its reasonable to ask why a $2.2 million dollar car like the Veyron is socializing with the masses. Karl Greenberg of Marketing Daily did ask, speaking with John Hill, Bugatti’s director of sales for the Americas. The answer is it’s a way to create… Continue Reading
Self-Immolation?
Rupert Murdoch’s tablet newspaper, The Daily, laid-off nearly a third of its staff in August. According to Erik Sass in Online Media Daily, the cuts fell heavily on editorial staffers – another case of trying to make money by offering an inferior product, a strategy decried by Sharon Silke Carty during a recent appearance on… Continue Reading
Speeding Auto Journalists; Ethanol Claims Disputed
Auto journalists took another “hit” (see Regional News) when Dennis Romero, wrote in his LA Weekly blog, “putting the hammer down in a hot German touring car is almost required these days for automotive journalists.” He goes on to slam all auto writers, “And, so, rare is the journalist who has a clean driving record.”… Continue Reading
When Journalists AttacK?
Auto journalists are getting kicked by their brethren and ignored in at least one case by their sources. . . . The Truth About Cars Edward Niedermeyer says “the pimpatorial game is becoming more subtle and cites the participation of Jean Jennings and her Automobile Magazine staff in one of Ford’s sock puppet TV commercials.… Continue Reading
Summer’s Slow News Days
Journalism’s “silly season” of lazy hazy “dog days” brings less news and leaves more time and space to be filled with quirks, quacks and quiddities: The new no battery mechanical system being developed in England, the Flyrbrid, successfully powered this race car at LeMans this year. The Detroit Bureau tells of “a British-designed ‘flybrid’” that… Continue Reading
How Tos For The Auto Industry
“Getting Your Ass Kicked By A Really Nice Guy,” penned by David Koretz for MediaPost, uses http://www.craigslist.org versus www.AutoTrader.com as a cautionary about what happens to a company when a guy who thinks completely differently comes along. Koretz says it should “scare the hell” out of publishers when “intrepid entrepreneurs figure out how to displace… Continue Reading
What A Launch!
BC Honda launched the 2012 Honda Civic in downtown Vancouver, B.C. with this eye-catching whimsical display of the new model as a prize emerging from a gigantic cereal box. Vancouver photographer Maurice Li was on hand to snap what became the photo of the week on the official blog of Pan Pacific Vancouver. Truly… Continue Reading