Category Archives: Automotive

Goodbye, Pontiac

By thecodepounder | Published April 27, 2009

Fox News/Associated Press:
The president of General Motors announced his plans Monday to discontinue production of its celebrated Pontiac brand and cut 21,000 factory jobs by next year as part of a massive restructuring effort needed to secure more government aid.
Sad. I hated to see Oldsmobile go back in 2004.

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I believe…the Constitution: govenment can’t endorse religion

By thecodepounder | Published December 12, 2008

Hell yeah! Americans United for Separation of Church and State yesterday announced:
A federal judge today ruled that the state of South Carolina may not issue a special “Christian” license plate featuring a cross, a stained-glass window and the words “I Believe.”
Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which sponsored the litigation to stop [...]

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Random semi-humorous thought for the day

By thecodepounder | Published October 9, 2008

When the car dealership’s service department gives you a ride back to your office, they should drive you in a “courtesy van” or at least a car that’s neither newer nor higher up the car food chain than yours. It’s just not fair to give me a ride in a newer, better car — [...]

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Red-light cameras just don’t work

By thecodepounder | Published August 27, 2008

Vito Rispo writing at RideLust.com:
In fact, six U.S. cities have been found guilty of shortening the yellow light cycles below what is allowed by law on intersections equipped with cameras meant to catch red-light runners. Those local governments have completely ignored the safety benefit of increasing the yellow light time and decided to install red-light [...]

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Electric car enthusiasts echo computer enthusiasts of a generation ago

By thecodepounder | Published August 19, 2008

FoxNews.com has the story of an electric car club, the Fox Valley Electric Auto Association, that meets monthly in Naperville, Illinois. Interesting to me is how much the electric car enthusiasts sound like the computer enthusiasts of the 1970s:
“We came to the conclusion a long time ago the car companies weren’t going to make [...]

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Cars outsell Ford’s F-series truck for first time since 1992

By thecodepounder | Published June 4, 2008

Gas prices got you thinking differently? Not just you, brother. For the first time since 1992, Ford’s F-series truck was outsold by passenger cars from Toyota and Honda. General Motors is closing 4 factories and considering dropping the Hummer. Why? You guessed it, gas prices are forcing people to give up [...]

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What are you doing to lower gas prices?

By thecodepounder | Published May 6, 2008

Have you prayed for lower gas prices? These folks did. Now I don’t have to.
Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner, confessed unworthy.
– Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

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Oh yeah! Tesla Motors opens first showroom

By thecodepounder | Published May 6, 2008

Tesla Motors. Wicked cool. They’ve just opened their first showroom in Los Angeles, with more planned by early next year.
The car goes from 0 to 60 mph in just under four seconds and tops out at 125 mph. It goes 225 miles on one charge and can be fully recharged in 3.5 hours, [...]

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NKB recommends: Who Killed the Electric Car?

By thecodepounder | Published May 5, 2008

Available at Amazon and Netflix, Who Killed the Electric Car? is worth watching.

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She-it! More on the 2009 Cadillac CTS-V, “Cadzilla”

By thecodepounder | Published March 21, 2008

I think the Motor Trend First Look sums it up best:
This is it. The fastest, most powerful Cadillac ever built. The fastest, most powerful American sedan in history, for that matter. Locked, loaded, and gunning for Europe’s heavy-hitting sport sedans-BMW M5, Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG, Audi RS6. Read all that again. Now pinch yourself. No, you’re [...]

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2009 Cadillac CTS-V: Bimodal Bullet

By thecodepounder | Published February 5, 2008

Tony Swan, writing in the March 2008 Car and Driver:
Power. The original CTS-V rumbled onto the stage with a 5.7-liter Corvette LS6 V-8: 400 horsepower, 395 pound-feet of torque. The ‘09 CTS-V has a supercharged and intercooled 6.2-liter V-8 tucked under its aluminum hood bulge. It’s called the LSA, closely related to [...]

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Cadillac’s new hydrogen-electric crossover

By thecodepounder | Published January 8, 2008

The Cadillac Provoq was unveiled today at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The concept car features hydrogen-electric fuel cell power, seats five, will go 300 miles on a single fill-up of hydrogen and will go zero to 60 mph in 8.5 seconds. It’s a damned nice-looking car too, as you can [...]

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