Automobile Blog May Archive

He calmly answered, "Nothing, I just want to know what kind of car is that red car in the movie." I was completely giggling in annoyance that I almost wanted to hit him. Instead, I told him to go back to his house and I'll just inform him what car that really is in the morning. By the way, the red car he is talking about is the sports cars in the animated film "The Cars" by Pixar that we saw over three weeks ago in DVD. This video will let you peek at some of the car characters in the movie while listening to some good music by the Rascal Flatts, "Life Is A Highway", originally by Tom Cochrane.

There were plenty of cars used in the film. The lead role is a red car (that my friend is talking about) whose name is Lightning Mcqueen. He is actually a 1967 Ford GT40 sports car. The next character, the apple of the windshield-eye of McQueen, is named Chick Chick, who looked like an 80's version of a Buick Regal. A semi rival in the story is named The King, a beautiful 70's Plymouth Superbird. I really am amazed by how that car looks in real form. It was a beauty.

There were also other car models in the movie like a Fiat 500, a Chevrolet Impala, Mercury Coupe, a Hudson Hornet and even the big Mack Super-Liner!

Well I guess you have to see the movie. It was fun watching it, especially now that you know what are the model of some of those cars are. As for my friend, he will have to sleep first before he acquire this information ha ha!

Not that I am an ignorant when it comes to limos, its just that I never think of riding one even in my dreams. Aside from them being owned only by tycoons or rich people, I never really liked how they look like. Lol. Call me anything you want but I am really not a limo fan. Not until yesterday.

We were invited to attend a special program and were asked to do some write ups for a particular event. But since I live outside the metro, the owner of the firm who needs our help decided to summon all those who live a bit far from the vicinity using his own limo. I was shocked when it parked in front of my house. I thought it was a funeral car at first haha because its very long and it is black. I was even more shocked when I got to enter the car. It was uberly beautiful. It was stunning, it was fantastic and it was gorgeous. I have already said hundreds of adjectives synonymous to beautiful that moment and they were laughing at me because I really looked ignorant haha. I got to sit near the driver (because I'm the only male that time, the others are yet to be fetch), and by that I learned a lot and got some of my questions answered.

The limousine's name is Gimmo, named after the already dead dog of the owner. He said the car is usually used only when the whole family is complete and they need to travel around the country. The limo is actually an American-made Lincoln Town Car. It has six doors, 5 flat backseat tv, 2 car-only laptops with 5 PSP or PlayStation Portable. The car is so smooth traveling along the metro's busiest roads. It was so comfortable that I did not notice we already arrived in our destination.

As I stepped away from the car, i looked at it and told myself this will not be the last time I will ride a limo! Lol. And wishes do come true. And its pretty fast. Because that very same limo gave us a ride back to our homes after the event. Aahh, what a great day it was!

Honda believe that their sales, though increased, can do more. They can sell more if only the dealers are doing their part properly. According to Honda sales for this year can be doubled or even higher if only local dealers around the world are selling Honda cars in the manner Toyota is doing.

In a short article on a news paper, Honda said they will be removing the franchise license of dealers who are found not improving their services. Well, I could not blame Honda. I have personally experienced how poor their dealership is.

The staffs are not approachable as if they treat you like you have no money to buy their car. They think people that do not wear gold necklaces and Rolex watches while looking at their cars are just fooling around and will not really buy. Plus, the showroom in the dealer near my place is a bit old. A part of the roof already have holes and some window of the establishment are already broken. Who would want to buy cars in those unreliable stores?

However, dealers answered Honda's threat. One dealer who forbid to give his name said it is not their fault if Honda is designing unattractive cars. Wow! What a broad statement. That is something I also agree, lol. They said the buyers are very much unlikely to buy cars that have poor designs and yet the price is pretty high. They also said that Honda cannot play God by just removing their franchise license. Its a matter of millions of dollars. Those are big bucks and then they will just remove the license? I believe that is unfair for the dealers.

I think this dispute can be settled in peace if both will do their job properly. Honda cannot just threaten their dealers like that. As for the dealers, I think its time that they also improve their services. Both of them can work very effectively if issues like these will be taken at a calm manner. Afterall, they all belong to Honda family.

But with this video, its hard to laugh. Sometimes when we watch late night Police Car Chases on our favorite channels, we usually feel glad whenever the police caught the speedy criminals. But this one is different. It ended differently. Unlike the other chases where the suspect just stop running out of hope of getting away from the police or minor crashes happen that slowed down their cars resulting for their capture, this one shows how brutal running from the law can be.

The reason for the suspect risking his life and risking the life of whomever is in the car? Passing of bad cheque. He risked his life just because of forgery, a very unlikely case for a suspect to speed up on a busy highway.

Cars have been used away from their original purpose. It has served man differently from what it is at least invented for.

Car chasing car. A very scene I would never like to witness myself.

We brought you Mazda on our first In Focus segment, now we are giving you the world's current largest automaker, Toyota.

The Japanese car maker belongs to the multinational Toyota Motor Corporation, owned and founded by the Toyoda family. Wondering why Toyota and their family name sound almost the same? It is because they just changed the "D" to "T" because they consider writing Toyota luckier than Toyoda due to its eight strokes when writing it in Japanese.

Toyota started around 1934 and built their first passenger car in 1936. However, their activities are only limited to their country. During the World War II, Toyota is solely dedicated in making trucks for the Japanese Army. After the war, they started building commercial passenger vehicles. In 1957, they shipped their first ever car in the United States, the Toyota Crown. By the end of the 60's, Toyota had already gone global.

Toyota had gone a long way since then. They innovated a lot of new things for the car industry. They initiated researches for the better comfortability and better driving of customers. They also made their commitment to held saving the world from the pollution brought about by the car they themselves made by creating Green cars - electric types, ethanol , plug-in hybrids and even solar cars. The company even dedicated its own farm producing corns for use as ethanol. There are various models of Toyota cars that are in line with their hybrid series, the Toyota Prius for example. It uses different types of energy for different models. There are Prius that uses ethanol, some uses electricity, and future Prius-es will be runned by Hydrogen fuel.

The company now holds about 522 subsidiaries and still growing. There is really no stopping them. In the recent years, we have seen how great they have become with advancing to modern technology and applying it to their cars. They have beaten the record of GM's reigning for the last 77 years.

This morning, I was roaming around the village when I happen to pass by the house of our new neighbor. I was stunned when I saw in their lawn a parked vintage car. From how it looks, I can say its a 1960 to 1970 super Mini. I wasn't really sure because I have not seen in in closer range but I'm pretty much definite that it is a mini.

I really have the heart for vintage cars. I so love how it looks. I have seen a lot of copper minis before but it never fails to amaze me every time I see one.

For those of you who do not you (though I believe theres only a few people who doesn't know what minis are), minis are small type cars that generally produced in Europe particularly in the United Kingdom. It was popular in its days up to now. The genuine Mini production started in 1959 that last up to 2000 and was superseded by the New MINI, which was own by BMW. Do not forget to write it in all capital letters. This is done to avoid criss crossing of ideas from its predecessor. The Coopers are the sporty versions of the very successful minis. The minis are purposely made to lessen the consumption of oil and only to provide comfort for for a 5-6 seater small car.

Nowadays, they are more of the collectible car than used as a real car. Its really rare seeing them in road. I have seen many of them only in the garage and museums. However, those preserved Minis will most likely sell for double or even triple its original price if sold. Some vintage versions are also considered priceless, no amount of money can equal its value.

Even I, if ever I was given the chance to own a vintage mini, I definitely will not sell it. There are now tons of different designs of MINI because of the application of modern designs as headed by BMW, but the looks and style and the original idea of the original Mini is still the best for me, at least.

This video is actually the first that the Philippines had done when it comes to smuggled cars. This happened around August of 2007 where some BMW X5s, Lincoln Navigator, Toyota Previa, Mitsubishi GTO, Chevrolet Camper and 18 more were destroyed in front of the government officials who said that these smuggled cars need to be destroyed so that smugglers will learn a lesson and to avoid these cars ending up in the smugglers again if ever they were put to auction.

The car destroying continued, last December, 21 more cars were destroyed and just 3 days ago, another 15 luxury cars were crashed using backhoes.

Food riots have occurred in Ethiopia, Indonesia, Egypt, Cameroon, and other countries. In the Philippines, armed polices are guarding the rice markets in Manila while military men are in charged of keeping the rice buying hours peaceful in the provinces. Access cards for the poorest families were also given so only those who really needed rice the most can buy the government supplied rice which is cheaper than the ordinary. Even in America, some rice institutes are regulating the people who can only buy rice. Even what we call the poor man's rice, the corn grain, already increased in price.

For the past few years, men have been developing fuels out of these foods, that gives us the idea that our commitment to save the world from oil pollution and being dependent on it also cause a major disaster, hunger. Bio-fuels like ethanol coming from corn is said to be one of the reason why hunger occurred.

The food intended for eating is turned to bio fuel. The Rico Gas, a kind of bio fuel that is made from rice also contributes to the food shortage all around the world. Although ethanol is more widely use, both these two gases can be considered as the culprit. We burn these foods as fuel, rather than eating it. The fuel products made from these foods however helped the environment is clearing pollution, but the end result gave humankind hunger.

An article I read this morning in the Manila Bulletin, a newspaper in the Philippines, said we can use other forms of energy but we must now stop using biofuels. Alternative ways like hydro powered and thermal energies can be use and cars that use electricity as the main source are far more better. Although these types of energies can still make backfires, at least the result in not directly on us, and will not hinder us with our food supplies.

The move of major car companies on developing electric hybrid cars is appreciated worldwide and we hope more of these will be developed and produced.