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Market Street 1906

I received this on an email that claimed it to be the oldest movie produced. Not sure how accurate this statement is but it's quite a trip to watch. Supposedly it was recorded four days before the great San Francisco earth quake of 1906. Interesting to see the apparent lack of rules, imagine yourself trying to ride a horse down Market street today...

Poehali!

Great race last night, I was happy that Massa managed to finish in front of Alonso but upset that Petrov decided to go air born , perhaps he was excited about the upcoming 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's trip to space? At least it serves as a lesson to wait a while to get back on the tarmac, kinda of reminds me of riding a bike and having your front wheel drop from the sidewalk, you have to be patient. But I think the Russian is still in good standing with the team, if Vettel can mature so can Petrov.  I like the Renault-Lotus team, it's nostalgic to see the black lotus and I'm personally cheering for them this season. I'm not a big fan of Heidfeld but was glad to see him manage to take the team to the podium in the second race. We can only imagine how this season would be with Kubica. Pitty for Williams who hasn't finished a race this year, i'm sure some of the stock holders are scratching their heads wondering if the team was a good investment, i'm sure they will figure things out sooner or later.

Curious photo.

Built Ford Tough

The ruler prevails!!!

Yes, GM is continuing it's quest to make the Cadillac brand worth buying again. You have to  be pretty old or some sort of Soprano style gangster to relate the brand as top tier luxury but aiming to change this GM has unveiled this week at the North American Int. Auto Show a "racing car".  I admire the attempt but like the rest of GM's products to the american public, it lacks soul. Why do they insist on pushing this weird ruler only design style for so long, it's time to let it go, it's not as cool as they think. The car is sort of lame when you compare it to something like a A4 or C Class DTM, at first you look at it and go wow, then hmmm, and finally you just want to stop looking at it. It kind of looks like a funny car from the front, a case of bad car pimping all together.
But i'm all for a manufacture making a serious commitment to racing, even if their car seems like something  Lockheed Martin made on their spare time, so for that thumbs up for GM.


The production model on the other hand is something I still haven't made my mind yet, like most of GM's claims the "New standard of the world" is nonsense, adding Brembo brakes a Vette engine and tuning your car at the Nurburgring does not make your car the new standard of anything. They claim the car is so fast they had to add a spoiler, but in order not to damage the design, cough cough it's already ugly, they had the clever idea of making the center taillight a "spoiler", which honestly just sounds like the excuse the ruler happy designer told them in order to add a few more straight lines. But I have to admit, the Cadillac's are getting nicer and nicer, on the outside I would even consider one against a Mercedes or BMW if I was really feeling patriotic but GM still has a long way in restructuring their company before they change the core of their flagship brand to what it once was.

Nissan finds UFO and calls it NV,

Today I was reading some random useless Yahoo! News story, and as i'm skimming through the article sitting there on my upper right hand corner was this image. At first sight I figured it was a truck advert but upon closer examination I realized it was a rare species, it was a strange case of  Japtrucktus Uglyvanucus. 
 It looks as though Ford came out with it's cute eco-friendly Transit and Nissan decided to make a new choice for you Transit would be buyers. Problem is, it looks like shit. Feels like Nissan was too busy with it's ultra queer Leaf to bother actually making a new vehicle from scratch, so they just got one of their trucks and made it into an ugly van. I don't think they're going to get much out of this thing, I would buy a used Sprinter for the same price even if it had 100k miles or even a CNG Ford Econoline would make more sense.
I was trying to see what it reminded me of and the post from Jalopnik made it clear. It's the perfect taco truck.

Dear Nissan, please try again.