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I’m not a big fan of Formula 1, but I can’t miss this!
Category: Vehicles
So I’ve got this Jetta…
… what better way to pimp it than oversized Corvette wheels?
o_O?
FINALLY
I’m SO TIRED of not being able to see around those giant, lumbering, self-absorbed dumbasses in their SUVs.
Seems even the self-absorbed dumbasses are getting tired of them, too. The Explorer was the #1 traded-in vehicle in the Cash-for-Clunkers program :)
Video: Real-life Mario Kart – Offworld
Video: Real-life Mario Kart – Offworld:
Ohhhhhh my god. This is awwwwwwwwesome! The new new boingboing gaming site Offworld.com is turning out to be really slick. Great work, guys :)
(Thanks, Steve!)
No understanding of Italian needed
I only picked up a few of the more colorful words she screamed out, but what I LOVE about this is how he’s got that amazingly composed look of amusement on his face, the whole time.
She looks like she’s a great sport about the whole thing, too. :)
VIDEO: Riccardo Patrese takes his wife for a spin – Autoblog:
As anyone with a less-than-enthusiastic spouse can attest, getting your better half in the passenger seat during a hard track flogging takes the kind of intestinal fortitude normally reserved for Lutz’s PR team. Apparently, it doesn’t get any easier even if you’ve got some Formula One experience.
Hit the jump to watch former F1 ace Riccardo Patrese take his rather attractive wife for a Sunday spin in a Honda Civic Type-R, complete with plenty of Italian expicitives and one positively hilarious “No no no no NO NO NO NO!”
Is Nissan lying about GT-R horsepower? Pretty much. – Autoblog
Word is, the 480 that Nissan’s claiming is actually closer to 580. Like whoa.
Is Nissan lying about GT-R horsepower? Pretty much. – Autoblog:
Check out my GTA4 whips
Ok, so one of them is actually a helicopter, but that’s just how I roll rotate?
Brake Job
The last time I was at the dealership getting my oil changed, they advised me that my brakes pads were nearly worn out, and that I’d need to have them replaced soon — the next oil change visit was probably a good time to do it.
Calling the local Midas shop, I asked for an estimate on all four sets of pads; the polite man on the other end of the call gave me a number one third as much as the dealer.
Here I sit in that man’s shop — the franchise owner — waiting for my car’s pads to be changed. Surprisingly enough, Midas offers lifetime replacement on the pads. I had to ask the owner, John, three times, “I get free pad replacement for the life of the car?” “Yes. It’s our way of earning your return business,” he explained. In most cases, the pads are about half as much as the labor charge on installing them, but in my case, the opposite is true. In any case, it’s still much, much cheaper than going to the dealer.
MacDork