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“Its got cop tires, cop brakes and it runs real good on unleaded gas, is this the new Bluesmobile or what?”
Elwood and Joliet Jake are having a party in the slammer right now because by the time they get out, these things might be selling at Police Department auctions!
This is a serious rear wheel drive police unit from GM that is set to challenge the decrepit Crown Victoria and in case you haven’t guessed it comes from Australia!
If you have watched the American auto scene over the past year or so you will know that the Holden Commodore was sold as the Pontiac G8 which unfortunately GM decided to kill off – still don’t understand that, neither can Bob Lutz!
Anyway GM has now decided that the car was a good thing and maybe it will look pretty with Chevy badges! The easy thing was the car, AKA Holden Statesman / Caprice is already sold in the Middle East as a Chevy anyway so it really didn’t pose a problem.
If everything goes to plan, from 2010 traffic offenders of the USA be warned, you will have to be driving some serious hardware to get away from the 6.0litre V8 flatfoot Holden, sorry Chevy!
Whether or not is fitted with State County Municipal Data System is yet to be confirmed and no matter how fast Jake and Elwood drive through a mall, there will be no new Oldsmobile this year!
If you were unlucky enough to live in East Berlin during the cold war years your choice of personal transport was extremely limited. Most chose the Trabi or Trabant.
With panels constructed of "Duroplast" and a two stroke engine capable of laying its own smoke screen every time it ran, the Trabbi died a death on the fall of the Berlin Wall. Lets face it what would you rather drive a ten year old Golf or a new Trabi?
Things are about to change with this new Trabi for the 21st Century.
Bearing a resemblance to the original Trabi this car is designed to be as up to date as it is possible to be. With an electric drivetrain this one may even make up for the environmental damage done by the old!
No one has put their hand up to built it yet but Volkswagen is a hot favouite!
September 29th 2009 12:28
You know sometimes it only takes one car to make a car company cool!
Case in point is the Subaru WRX. This all wheel drive turbocharged rally rocket emerged from the primeval ooze in which Subaru used to live in. Autoloud remembers the Brumby or as it was known in the states Brat. This utility had a production run so long it was mentioned in the bible!
Misshapen lumps like the first Liberty/Legacy, the Justy and of course lest we not forget the Vortex, have all come and gone. The one car that everyone remembers is the WRX or REX!
Considering this car is held in such high regard (except by Mitsubishi EVO drivers) why the hell would Subaru kill it off! Well, that’s the news from Japan anyway! Apparently along with all front wheel drive cars, Subaru will kill the Justy and also the REX. Why? they want to concentrate on their new core values, which according to them is now diesel and all wheel drive Foresters and Outbacks. ZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!
The WRX has won how many World Rally Championships? Three actually and don’t forget the three drivers championships! Yet Subaru have thrown it from the boardroom window to commit Seppuku on the front steps below. How quickly they forget!
This was the car that made Subaru cool in the eyes of both the Bobble hat and Baseball hat brigades. It also made friends in uniform too as hundreds of Hot shoe constables the world over will attest to! The first two generations in sedan form are the ones too have, the current shape looks too much like a Mazda and the sedan is WAY too boring!
Subaru will continue to build STi versions of the WRX - which does mean more performance but also means more cost!
Damn you Subaru!
Ford Australia has suffered a bout of automotive amnesia!
In the rush to save the Ford Falcon, or at least get car buyers interested in it, they have announced that they will fit the Falcon with a four cylinder engine! Seems that history is repeating itself as this concept was tried once before in the form of the unloved Commodore Four
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Finally! The sleeping giant may well have woken up!
The brand new shiny GM, not the old tarnished one, have actually used their brains and decided that the Pontiac G8 was too good a car to kill off, so it will now wear Chevy badges! This makes sense, it made sense three years ago when the VE first arrived on the scene
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Thanks to American car nut Jay Leno and possibly the yummiest mummy of them all, Elle McPherson, the world has finally been privy to the all new Jaguar XJ series!
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In an effort to find new sales “niches” and increase sales, motor manufacturers continually move into new market segments. Some of these experiments work, some others simply don’t.
Several lately have caught the attention of AUTOLOUD
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In the 1970’s the biggest money earner in Sweden was ABBA. The warbling foursome was followed closely by Volvo and SAAB.
Time has passed and Benny and Bjorn now write musicals, Volvo is no more than an outpost of Ford and SAAB, after being cast out of the house of GM is now owned by Koenigsegg
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In case you blinked in the last couple of weeks, the global motor industry has been doing a square dance, everone is boot scooting round in circles and ending up with new partners!
Grab your partners, here we go
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Comment by Patrick
on Barbie drives a Bentley, the proof is here!
Auto Loud
Lost it in a game of cards! Was probably strip poker!