If you’ve traded in your dream of owning a stock car, a Ferrari F1, or a Dragster for the comfort and affordability of a station wagon, there’s only one thing to do… make station wagons look cool. Throw out all of your old car models and start from scratch with this limited edition DIY station wagon, making it the cornerstone of a whole new collection. Once you have a few on display, brag about them when your buddies come over. You could say things like: “Yeah, that one there is a 1989 Ford Country Squire with the imitation wood paneling. Ya know they had 5.0 Liter V8s? Yup, those puppies could haul a whole lotta kids. Now come check out my 1948 Woodie.”
You may think racing your Ferraris and Lamborghinis around is cool, but you stand no chance when racing against the new age Batmobile. There is no fire shooting out the back of this Batmobile a la Adam West’s version, but there is no question you will be the coolest racer when you show up with this one. I can’t imagine there is anyone that doesn’t find slot racing cool, especially with Batman involved.
Ferrari is getting their brand on everything these days, from laptops to home entertainment systems. The latest installment comes courtesy of a partnership with Vertu – a world renowned manufacturer of luxury mobile phones.
The main aesthetic features include black and red leather, Ferrari logos on the front and back, and a back plate with a relief of the car’s break pedal.
The technical features are relatively unimpressive: SMS,MMS, Multi-language predictive text imput, Advanced Agenda, Calculator, large user memory (1000 names in phonebook, 900 calendar notes, 100 SMS), Bluetooth, Yamaha polyphonic hardware, GSM, Sapphire crystal screen, and stainless steel keys with jeweled bearings
The Ferrari Ascent will be available in Vertu stores worldwide starting in July. Quantity is limited to 1947 units to commemorate the 60th anniversary of year Ferrari was founded. Prices have not been made public.
It hurts to see yet another Ferrari Enzo being totalled and this one is on video. Eddie Griffin was driving the Enzo as part of his new movie, lost control and tore the car up. I know if I was the one who trashed it I wouldn’t be able to joke about it afterward like he does. Maybe because it wasn’t his.
When a wealthy car lover hits that mid-life crisis, he has the Ferrari to ease the pain. But what about the audiophile? How can he extend his now useless penis with overpriced gadgets? Ferrari and Meridian Audio have your back my friend. Via our good friends over at BigBerries, we give you the Ferrari F80 Home Entertainment System.
Besides looking good, the F80 has a few interesting specs under the hood.
Features:
Hand-built system
DAB/FM/AM tuner and a CD / DVD player
Two front speakers and rear subwoofer
Three power amps (80 watts)
Comes in five official Ferrari colors with limited edition versions coming later in the year
Apple has inked more deals with auto manufacturers that will allow users to integrate their iPod into their vehicles more easily. They have just made deals with Ford, General Motors and Mazda. This is in addition to the current integration offered by BMW, Acura, Audi, Ferrari, Honda, Nissan and Volkswagen. That means that iPod integration will be offered in 70% of the vehicles sold in the US in 2007.
Smart play on Apple’s part, make it the de facto standard for automobile integration, and their market share is safe for quite a while longer. Integration with the auto’s existing controls and a simple hook up are the key. Tape adapters and FM transmitter models are just not what people would ideally like to use. How is another player supposed to compete with that? What choice do they have? Either they try to duplicate the iPod output, which would most likely have patent issues, or get the automakers to support their device as well. Not impossible, but not going to be easy either.
My only complaint with this is the cost. I looked at adding the iPod Music Link that Honda offers, and it costs $214, another $100 or so if you want it installed. It will cost me more for the damn interlink than for the iPod itself. I did see a Ferrari adapter for $199, Iguess I just bought the wrong car to be able to save money.
We all know how hard it can be to get rid of a subscription when we have started it in a promotional period. And we have heard the stories about trying to cancel AOL service being a nightmare. I know I did it once, and while it was not a nightmare, it was 45 minutes of my life wasted. That is nothing compared to what Vincent Ferrari went through when he tried to cancel.
Poor guy spent 15 minutes waiting to get someone, then the rep would not even consider his request to cancel the acount, trying to convince him he used the account enough to keep it. Last straw was when the rep asked to speak to the 30 year old man’s father. I know AOL is losing customers by the boatload, but this is no way to treat anyone. Bullying tactics will get you nothing but a bad reputation. Word is that they fired the poor rep, but I would bet if Vincent hung up, AOL would have upped the rep’s bonus just a bit more for delaying the cancellation. They can try to blame it on one rep, but the reality seems more likely to be that he was doing exactly as he was instructed, even better than they hoped, likely. Problem is, even though this has come out and AOL is under a spotlight, any other company doing the same thing is not going to change one bit. I am not even convinced this will change AOL.
Ian Wright, an engineer from New Zealand has developed an electric car that “blows away a Ferrari 360 Spider and a Porsche Carrera GT in drag races, and whose 0-to-60 acceleration time ranks it among the fastest production autos in the world. In fact, it’s second only to the French-made Bugatti Veyron, a 1,000-horsepower, 16-cylinder beast that hits 60 mph half a second faster and goes for $1.25 million.”
No way!
Believe it or not, Wright has actually managed to make an electric car that has more horespower than your average golf cart – and he plans to sell a production version for around $100,000.
He also notes that the commercial car will have a 100 mile range and recharge in about 4.5 hours.
With gas prices currently raging out of control, this is certainly welcome news. Hopefully Wright’s EV project will be the start of a true conversion from gas powered vehicles to cheaper, eco-friendly alternatives.
I had to write this story for two primary reason: one, the story is so bizarre, and two, so I could post a picture of how badly this fool trashed a Ferrari Enzo.
First off, anyone that crashes a $1 million Ferrari Enzo is a tool. But the story just gets better from there.
Stefan Eriksson was over the legal limit for driving, but claims that someone he knew only as Dietrich was driving and ran off. Now it comes out that the car he was driving belonged to a bank in Europe for non-payment of the loan, as well as a black Ferrari Enzo and a rare Mercedes. And it appears that none of them may have been in the country legally.
Just add to all this that he was involved in the whole Gizmodo debacle as an executive with a financial fraud conviction who left his post shortly after the convivtion was made public, and you should have a pretty clear picture of the various schemes this guy was probably involved in. Suspicion of Grand Larceny may be the least of his problems if everything ever comes out.
Apple has inked more deals with auto manufacturers that will allow users to integrate their iPod into their vehicles more easily. They have just made deals with Ford, General Motors and Mazda. This is in addition to the current integration offered by BMW, Acura, Audi, Ferrari, Honda, Nissan and Volkswagen. That means that iPod integration will be offered in 70% of the vehicles sold in the US in 2007.
We all know how hard it can be to get rid of a subscription when we have started it in a promotional period. And we have heard the stories about trying to cancel AOL service being a nightmare. I know I did it once, and while it was not a nightmare, it was 45 minutes of my life wasted. That is nothing compared to what Vincent Ferrari went through when he tried to cancel.
Ian Wright, an engineer from New Zealand has developed an electric car that “blows away a Ferrari 360 Spider and a Porsche Carrera GT in drag races, and whose 0-to-60 acceleration time ranks it among the fastest production autos in the world. In fact, it’s second only to the French-made Bugatti Veyron, a 1,000-horsepower, 16-cylinder beast that hits 60 mph half a second faster and goes for $1.25 million.”
