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Overdrive is Necessary: Mercedes-Benz's Latest Tech Grab Bag

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Offerings to the gods of style, speed, and power. Tuesday, February 23, 2010. Mercedes-Benz's Latest Tech Grab Bag. Things in the car world have calmed a bit. Toyota's not on every headline, Hummer's death went pretty much unnoticed and quite a few companies posted better sales. Yawn. So I'm going to bring something up from the recent Geneva Auto Show. It pretty got passed over, like the show itself, and no one paid attention to it. I like to think of it as a harbinger of the future, unfortunately. Well,...

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Overdrive is Necessary: September 2009

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Offerings to the gods of style, speed, and power. Monday, September 28, 2009. Old Chevrolet vs New Chevrolet, Who Wins? Behold, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's celebration of their fiftieth anniversary. They decided to demonstrate, visually, just how far car safety has come since 1959. So, naturally, they smacked a 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air sedan into a brand new 2009 Chevrolet Malibu. Neither one of course. And you just destroyed an antique, you twit. Of course, the old car fanatics are quite ...

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Overdrive is Necessary: November 2009

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Offerings to the gods of style, speed, and power. Monday, November 30, 2009. According to the December issue of "Automobile Magazine," the Frankfurt Motor Show, held in Frankfurt, Germany declared that electricity has won the three way battle for the future of the automobile. Hydrogen and hybrids have lost. I'm not so sure. Audi, in particular, completely embraced electricity with its e-tron concept. No, the greatest hurdle is the charging. That's what will hobble these cars. Some people think that charg...

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Overdrive is Necessary: Small Truck Comeback?

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Offerings to the gods of style, speed, and power. Friday, January 15, 2010. I bitched, moaned and whined about Ford not bringing the next Ranger over to America. In short, if you didn't read the entire little rant, I predicted that smaller trucks were going to become very popular because of the new downsizing trend. I think I was right. According to Wards Auto. That's very interesting since Toyota never builds a car that it can't sell. The company thinks there's a market out there somewhere. So, note to ...

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Overdrive is Necessary: December 2009

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Offerings to the gods of style, speed, and power. Tuesday, December 29, 2009. Ford's Created Another Monster, Maybe. Here's a question: Would Swedish meatballs go with General Tso's Chicken? Why am I asking? Well, it's because Ford is selling Volvo to the Chinese. In particular, Ford is selling their Swedish boxy sedan division to Geely, one of the larger Chinese car manufacturers. But some people think it's a very shortsighted move. So Ford has, in all likelihood, created a major competitor. The backers...

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Overdrive is Necessary: February 2010

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Offerings to the gods of style, speed, and power. Tuesday, February 23, 2010. Mercedes-Benz's Latest Tech Grab Bag. Things in the car world have calmed a bit. Toyota's not on every headline, Hummer's death went pretty much unnoticed and quite a few companies posted better sales. Yawn. So I'm going to bring something up from the recent Geneva Auto Show. It pretty got passed over, like the show itself, and no one paid attention to it. I like to think of it as a harbinger of the future, unfortunately. Well,...

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Overdrive is Necessary: October 2009

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Offerings to the gods of style, speed, and power. Friday, October 30, 2009. Want a Sneak Peek at Chrysler's New Model? Behold, the new Chrysler: the Fiat 500 (2007-present). Fiat is the Italian automaker that owns Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep. The automotive rumor mill thinks that their 500 is going to come to the U.S. as a Chrysler product. What's they don't know is whether the 500 coming here as a re-badged Chrysler or if Chrysler is just going to sell it in their dealerships. The interior's great too.

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Overdrive is Necessary: January 2010

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Offerings to the gods of style, speed, and power. Friday, January 15, 2010. I bitched, moaned and whined about Ford not bringing the next Ranger over to America. In short, if you didn't read the entire little rant, I predicted that smaller trucks were going to become very popular because of the new downsizing trend. I think I was right. According to Wards Auto. That's very interesting since Toyota never builds a car that it can't sell. The company thinks there's a market out there somewhere. So, note to ...

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Overdrive is Necessary: March 2010

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Offerings to the gods of style, speed, and power. Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Car Tech and Me. In my last post I ranted, rather crazily, about technology slowly creeping into everything a car does. From cruise control, to steering, it's filtering in everywhere. I admit, I sounded like a stark raving lunatic that wants to go back to the old days of "horseless carriages" that required hand cranking and manual spark advance. So the airbag's brought us a long way. The diagram above is referring to Ford's Roll St...