Monthly Archives: October 2013

Corvette History through Ads: Malcolm Konner Commemorative Edition

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This advertisement for the Malcolm Konner Commemorative Edition 1986 Corvette created quite a controversy among other Chevrolet dealerships. Corvette’s sales department realized the potential in creating special edition cars in 1978 when they successfully marketed the Indianapolis 500 Pace Car and the 25th Anniversary model during the same year. The sales for 1978 approached 47,000 […]

Classic Plug-In Hybrid: 1982 Mercedes-Benz W123

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The plug-in hybrid segment gets a lot of attention these days as the trend-setting, cutting-edge portion of the automotive industry, but plug-in hybrids have been around for a long time, and in typical ahead-of-the-curve fashion, Mercedes-Benz experimented with a plug-in hybrid prototype way back in 1982. If you’re over 40, I would apologize for the […]

What if All Cars Had BMW ConnectedDrive?

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What if all cars had BMW ConnectedDrive? Perhaps it would be like automotive socialism. Nobody would apply themselves enough to afford newer and better cars, and before you’d know it, everybody would be driving around in 25-year-old s***boxes. Perhaps I’m thinking too far into this scenario, but entertainingly, BMW thought about this, and executed the [...]

What if All Cars Had BMW ConnectedDrive?

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What if all cars had BMW ConnectedDrive? Perhaps it would be like automotive socialism. Nobody would apply themselves enough to afford newer and better cars, and before you’d know it, everybody would be driving around in 25-year-old s***boxes. Perhaps I’m thinking too far into this scenario, but entertainingly, BMW thought about this, and executed the [...]

Ride Gone Wrong: One of the Motorcyclists Who Attacked Range Rover is a Cop

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Just when you thought a horrible story couldn’t get any worse. The New York Daily News is reporting that one of the riders who attacked the Range Rover—sending the 33-year driver to the hospital—at the end of September was an undercover police officer. The officer, who has yet to be publicly identified, was reportedly caught […]