Unscripted. Unapproved. Unusually frank discussion.
Automotive journalist John McElroy taps into his vast network of auto reporters and colleagues to gather for an irreverent roundtable discussion of the latest news to come out of the automotive world. Joining John each week is outspoken automotive pundit, Peter De Lorenzo of AutoExtremist.com, and BusinessWeek Detroit Bureau Chief David Welch. Together with their guests, it’s an uncensored, no-holds-barred, tell-it-like-it-is conversation on what’s wrong, what’s right, and what’s up with the auto industry.
This week we welcome Charlie Hughes, the author of “Branding Iron” and an expert in automotive brands. In the past couple of years we’ve had a major culling of automotive marques–especially in Detroit. Tonight we’ll talk about what else can go: Acura? Infiniti? As usual, we’ll also get into the news of the week. John McElroy’s in studio with Peter De Lorenzo, the Autoextremist, and David Welch from Bloomberg BusinessWeek.
Honda’s CRX-inspired CR-Z may translate into sales gold [In Japan anyway], but said interpretation abruptly turns into a language barrier once you set your retinas on the actual product, sans stage lighting. Upon witnessing the eco-hatch at this angle, this is one dialect i’d rather not be fluent in.
English/Sri Lankan tunes this time around, or what M.I.A. refers to as “other” music. Fiddling in the background of the Civic Si Coupe’s TV spot is this rather odd, yet jam-poppin’, hip-gyrating, art-infused number. Turn up the sound, “It’ll reverse your thinking.”
Despite the dismal declines of 2009 Not you, Subaru, Kelley had a pretty busy year with her little blue book racking up more names than she can handle. Furthermore, in spite of those said declines, KBB.com has received nothing but inclines on their page visitation views [180 Million of them in 2009, that's a lot of papercuts] on their award-winning encyclautopedia. With the year coming to a screeching halt from it’s ceramic composite brakes, the company has announced their Top 20 Most-Researched Vehicles of the Year, as well as the 5 Carmakers with the Top market Share for 2009.
Were any of these choices on your new car shopping list? Or did such a list even exist? When it does, that blue book is the perfect starting-off point.
The previous word was *Not*… here, the word of choice is *Why*
What you’re gawking looking at is… well… pretty self-explanatory. That’s a Honda VTEC intake… routed inside the cabin. Should the passenger be holding a portable Mitsubishi electric fan plugged into the socket to add “Mooore Pooower!”? Should the exhaust be routed inside the vehicle as well to give the owner a deserving fix? Should the intake be directed underneath the seats for methane boosts?
