Cars

Car Camo Considered

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This is the back end of the new BMW M4 covered in camo because they are not ready to actually debut them yet, although they are out test driving them. I drove its predecessor, the M3, back in 2008 at a Susan B Komen Ultimate Drive and effervesced about the experience:

414HP V-8. Yikes! This car should be illegal, but I’m glad it is not. Just the exhaust note alone is enough to make the hairs on your arm stand up. Not deep throaty Detroit rumble, but raspy, race car purposeful. One suggestion, when you mash the go pedal to the floor you should already have your head back on the headrest or it will be snapped back to it. This is as close as you can get to experiencing a catapult launch from the flight deck of an aircraft carrier on land, unless you drag race funny cars on the weekend.

If I was really rich, or kinda rich and single, this thing would be my daily driver, but seeing as I’m neither of those things I drive a 10 year-old Miata (not that there is anything wrong with that.)

What I think might be cool, and I wouldn’t even have to be rich, would be to find a place that vinyl wraps cars and cover the Miata in that black & white swirly camo. Although, I think to do that I would need to be single, or if I did that without asking for permission, I would end up single. 🙂

Super Bowl Thursday

Dealing With The Devil
Insert no longer available YouTube video of a Super Bowl commercial here.

Where Babies Come From
Insert no longer available YouTube video of a Super Bowl commercial here.

It’s What Defines Us
Insert no longer available YouTube video of a Super Bowl commercial here.

Super Bowl Monday

First we watched the Super Bowl for the game. Then we watched for the commercials. Now we don’t even have to even watch to see the commercials. They’re on the internet weeks before. Here are three of the car related ones.

Nice Car
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Nice Genie
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Nice Accent
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H0xPWAtaa8

Way To Convey A Feeling VW

Last October I included a picture of the new New Beetle and more or less made fun of it. They have supposedly butched it up a bit to appeal to more men, I do think they succeeded to a certain extent, but it is not going to loose the “chick car” label. Not that there is anything wrong with that.

The Miata has a chick car label and I certainly like them and truth be told I like the new New Beetle too. VW has released some official photos of the NNB convertible. The above picture shows a woman driving a blue colored copy and a man driving a red one. Click on the picture and you will get a blow up of the red car and it looks like he is not happy to be driving a chick car.

My Favourite Game

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A couple of decades ago at a Miatas At The Gap event someone handed out a Mix CD that included a bunch of driving songs. It included The Cardigans tune My Favourite Game and while it is a cool song I could never really figure out the driving connection, until this morning. Thanks Jalopnik.

Radio Paradise HD

My favorite internet radio station has it own channel on the Roku box. It is called Radio Paradise HD and it streams the same music as the radio stream, but with the addition of photos that compliment the title, artist or lyrics.

Tonight I decided to upload a few of my photos to see if they might use them. The submission form had room for eight files, so that is how many I uploaded for now. Maybe next time I do a few Enchanted Ceiling shots. One of the one tonight was the above image of Carhenge from our 2009 trip out west.

For the first time in about 3 weeks we rode the tandem to work. This is a great time of year for this because now that school is out for the summer traffic on the way to work is almost non-existent and not much more on the way home.

This is going to leave a hour long hole in my Saturday morning – Click & Clack Hang Up Their Microphones