Posts Tagged ‘bug’
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
While we all know that a 16-cylinder Bugatti Veyron would leave a 12-cylinder Ferrari 599 GTB choking in its own emissions, two blokes in the UK apparently wanted to check it out for themselves. After witnesses reported the two supercars jockeying for position at high speeds on public highways, pol......
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007
This isn't exactly what the recording industry had in mind when The Beatles went gold for the first time. But then, who would have predicted back then that the Iron Curtain would fall and that Eastern Europe would grow into one of the world's largest markets for tasteless luxury items.This 1968 Volk......
Tags: beatles, beetle, bucharest, bucharest romania, bug, dub, eastern europe, eighty eight, gold, golden oldie, Iron Curtain, luxury, luxury items, porsche, porsche 911, porsches, recording industry, romania, show, tiles, volkswagen, Volkswagen Beetle, vw
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Wednesday, May 30th, 2007
When people have a love of YouTube and a lot of free time on their hands, some pretty crazy things can happen. Someone with a spare first-generation VW Beetle and a car shredder decided to be creative in dismantling their hippie heirloom, so they slapped together a faux-comedy. The action saves this......
Tags: amateur video, beetle, beetle bug, bug, comedy, crazy things, free time, hippie, little bug, love, shredder, two minutes, volkswagen, vw, youtube
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Saturday, March 10th, 2007
You see it all the time on eBay; resolute bidders refusing to pull out, even though they've driven the price up far beyond reason. Harder to find these days are the mythical screaming deals of yesteryear - things that go stupid-cheap to a shrewd buyer with an evil chuckle. Sports Car Market has been......
Tags: auction, auctions, beetle, bidders, bug, chevy pickup, crazy, Custom, dollar amounts, dragster, ebay, ebay motors, excalibur, fabricator, fools, gatsby, inanity, jeep, killer deals, money, scm, silly, single pass, slideshow, source sports, sports car market, SportsCarMarket, stupid, tragedies, true meaning, volkswagen, wacky, wallet, yesteryear
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Friday, January 26th, 2007
click above image to view addition high-res pics of the VW New Beetle Triple WhiteFor those of you who really want to relive the past, VW is releasing a 1970's retro edition of it's already retro New Beetle. Beginning this week, only 3,000 Triple White New Beetles will be released into the wild, wi......
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Tuesday, August 1st, 2006
Starting tomorrow (Monday, September 18), Jeep will air five new TV spots. The first clip to surface is this crazy "Lizard" ad, which shows a lizard in the desert, puffing up to challenge an old Wrangler. The Wrangler puffs up even bigger, scares off the lizard and settles down to the shape of the ......
Tags: 4x4, ad, advertisement, advertizement, bird hunting, bug, bugs, desert, gorillas, grooming, Hip-Hop, insect, jeep, jurassic park, JurassicPark, lizard, marketing, nedry, new tv, newman, rock crawler, scares, seinfeld, september 18, shape, Truck, tv spots, Unlimited, wayne knight, WayneKnight, wrangler
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Friday, April 7th, 2006
Astute readers of Autoblog will no doubt remember pics of the jet-powered Volkswagen New Beetle we posted a while back. Owner Ron Patrick was recently interviewed by the San Francisco Chronicle and fired up the fire-breathing Beetle on camera.While Patrick admits the car was built more for show than......
Tags: air intake, beetle, blossom, brakes, bug, fire breathing, flower power, flower vase, jet engine, jet-powered, JetEngine, kerosene, new beetle, NewBeetle, no doubt, power source, ron patrick, RonPatrick, rpm, san francisco chronicle, san francisco gate, show pony, video jet, volkswagen, volkswagen new beetle
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