Read a little bit of Holden's history. The names are all explained.
Read a little bit of Holden's history. The names are all explained.
An English dictionary had no aboriginal words? I'm shocked.
For the record, Torana means "to fly", and Commodore means "fat middle-aged white guy at a yacht club".
I remembered Monaro wrong. Its actually a word for a high plain.
Monaro was named after an aboriginal word for a certain type of wind you get in the Outback. Maloo is an aboriginal word for "thunder".
I knew a guy who thought there was a Ferrari Testostaroni, named so because it was so manly.
Mitsubishi Starion. I heard a (probably apocryphal) story that this started life as a Mitsubishi Stallion, but by the time it mades its way through several Japanese board meetings it had subtly changed. That's either a great anecdote or a slightly racist joke, in which case, I apologise.
Don't take it out on New Zealand. We gave you Flight of the Conchords and Anna Paquin's bottom (and the rest of her, actually). Bam!
I bet he mostly licensed mini-cab drivers.
The look on his face tells me he's just spotted an M4 Neon, and is taking no prisoners. Dark, dark times.
This takes me back. I spent a few years as the gunner in a Camry Longbow. The late 90s Beige-wars were hell for everyone involved, but the real losers were, as always, the women and children.
Maybe impressive was the wrong word, but a case that ups the quality of the lens and sensor is a nifty idea. Oh, I just read a proper review of it. Yup, unmitigated rubbish. My apologies.
Dude, I'm the first to admit I know notjing about astetics. Hell, I don't even know what astetics are!
Thats true, but when you consider he was talking about "bringing jobs to the ghetto" with an idea that was vapourware at best, and intentional lies at worse, you gotta wonder how much of that was real and how much is PR. One-off DeLoreans won't employ anyone that doesn't already work at West Coast Customs. He…
I seem to recall that his first car was a Ferio, so the precedent has been set. I shudder when I think about that Top Gear interview with him. That Jezz didn't pick that that was a DeLorean and take him to task for his lies disappointed me deeply. Instead he gushed about Mr. I.am being "the most inspirational guest…
Note: The i.am.foto is a very impressive piece of technology. Its just poorly conceived and ugly as sin. Anyone who cares about high res images has a decent camera, and anyone that takes most of their photos on their iPhone does so for the convenience, which is taken away when you make the thing massive with an add-on…
As long as he doesn't ruin anymore classics in the process. I worry he'll suddenly decide he can do a better job than Pininfarina and we'll see a butchered 365GTB with gull-wings, 6 wheels and an extra row of headlights that pop-up from the roof. If that happens, then I'm gonna have to get all "Liam Neeson in Taken" on…
He needs to stop this. This isn't as bad as the crimes perpetrated against that poor DeLorean, but someone needs to tell him he has no taste and put an end to this. Giz UK opened an article on his awful i.am.foto thing with the best line I've read for a while: "Black Eyed Pea and frequent ruiner of things,…
Love the old fast-food trays under the wheels + hand brake. We used to call this doing "McSkids".
Oh, go on. He said "because racecar" and everything!