Cars All: January 2011

Mercedes-Benz C-Class 2010

Stone's Pig Garage rat rod, has some cool stuff to check out

Maybe a tractor grill, but I like it, and great placement of the headlights

Notice the horns on both sides of the firewall by the leading edge of the doors... cool.

Great interior, I was instantly admiring the radio, the antique fire extinguisher, speaker grill by the shifer base and those terrific seats made from 1960's lawn chairs

I admire any rat rod with a bottle opener and catch can

Great spare tool catch all tray

Semaphore! Love it! Check out the Sammy's Hot Rods once you click for full size

Dig the lettering and striping on the brake light, and the safe driving sign... awesome

cool hauler at the GNRS, I didn't get the info, but it's got a great vintage look, nice lines, and perfect colors

The Van-Go... cool, very cool, from the "Cars Not Culture" guru of Church magazine, Coby Gewertz

see another gallery at
http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2011/01/27/ear-severing-awesomeness/ but for the awesome photography and "peg the meter" cool factor, check into http://www.carsnotculture.com/usa/zine.htm

Cars are boring because people keep buying them. Please buy something more interesting! Here is a great video, for the 40 mpg Elantra

Holy S*** ! , tool innovations from firefighters, for firefighters. This rocks! Sharing great ideas for the benefit of all

Damn, this ought to be framed art (minus the extra set of earplugs)

Check out all the bitchin tools, modified, improvised, and uses you never thought of for common stuff, but firefighters have found work really good for propping open doors,keeping things in place, and misc simple things that have been proven to help in emergencies
http://www.vententersearch.com/pockets.htm

Thanks to
http://lostliver.blogspot.com/ for the discovery!

I found another hilarious writer of automobile columns, here's an excerpt

Let's say you bought a Cadillac CTS-V Sport Wagon, with a 6.2-liter, 556-horsepower Corvette V8, six-speed manual transmission.... thundering through the quarter-mile in 11.9 seconds at 116 mph, according to my colleagues at Car and Driver, who do impeccable instrumented testing.

....this wagon is about as esoteric an automobile as you're likely to find. Statistically speaking, General Motors will sell exactly none of these cars, the Detroit equivalent of Zoroastrianism.

But if you did buy one, what would you do with it? You'd have a lot of options.

Such a car would be useful if you wanted to duck car-pooling duty or avoid field trips with the Cub Scouts, because no child emerging weepy and jelly-kneed from the back seats of this supercharged washing machine will ever want to get back in.

Perhaps you could put on demonstrations for the local high-school physics club, using the g-meter built into the car's instrument cluster to show exactly what more than 1 g of lateral acceleration feels like. It feels like a fat lady is trying to push you out the side window. Or if not physics, the Greek club, since like Antaeus the V-Wagon maintains an Olympian grip on the earth and draws strength from it. Maybe you could help out at the police training range, letting cadets chase you to improve their hot-pursuit driving skills. Then, having been completely demoralized, these plebes will quit to become firemen. The world needs firemen.

The only people who will want this car are people like me, dizzy enthusiasts and car lovers, but more than that: car reviewers. Car reviewers cycle in and out of dozens of new cars every year. We buy not, neither do we lease. And because of that, we can afford to fall in love with a snot-flinging rodeo bull like the V-Wagon (or cars like the now-defunct Dodge Magnum, the Audi RS6 Avant, Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG Estate or the Europe-only BMW M5 Touring). If we were spending our own money, we might reasonably ask why a station wagon needs to be faster than a mid-1990s Lamborghini.

By DAN NEIL at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703555804576102202985268590.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

2011 Ford Mustang Look

The first muscle car hits speedy advance for 2011, with a few brand new motors, parcels more capacity, and the profit of the Boss 302 (as a 2012 ). The unique 3.7-liter V-6 produces 305 pull, the newfangled 5.0-liter V-8 412, the Boss form rates 440, and the 510-hp GT500 gets an aluminum piece and suspension tweaks.

2011 Ford Mustang

2011 Ford Mustang

2011 Chevrolet Camaro Design

Chevy's muscle car was motivated by its 1969 predecessor but isn’t as slavishly retro as its contestants from Ford and Dodge. Up to date underpinnings yield games-auto reactions, and powertrain alternatives combine a 426-hp, 6.2-liter V-8. The base V-6 gets a 8-hp climb for 2011.

2011 Chevrolet Camaro

2011 Chevrolet Camaro

2011 Land Rover Range Rover Sport view

Greatly changed for 2010 with newfangled, more influential motors; an amended frame; and an updated inside. The Sport brags a better than average level of rough terrain fitness, and the increasing speed and taking care of now convey more of the verve swore by the name, granted that much of the rivalry is preferable to drive.

2011 Land Rover Range Rover Sport