Posts Tagged ‘concrete barrier’
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Click above to view high-res gallery of crash-tested Ford TaurusFord has been very quiet about what it will have onstage at the New York Auto Show tomorrow, but one vehicle we do know that will be under the lights is the Ford Taurus. While there will certainly be a number of Taurus models waxed, pol......
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Posted in Sedans/Saloons, ford, new york auto show, safety | No Comments »
Friday, May 18th, 2007
Our colleague Noah will surely be saddened by this news and might want to avert his eyes now. An alert AutoblogGreen reader tipped off ABG the other night to some videos on YouTube of a Tesla Roadster street racing with a Ferrari F430, '63 Corvette, Mercedes-Benz SLR and a bike. After checking with ......
Tags: 63 corvette, autobloggreen, benz slr, cars, colleague, concrete barrier, ferrari, ferrari f430, gravel pits, mercedes benz, mercedes benz slr, noah, project gotham racing, project gotham racing 4, ProjectGothamRacing4, slabs, street racing, tesla roadster, video ferrari, vp, youtube
Posted in Videos, driving, ferrari, supercars | No Comments »
Sunday, January 28th, 2007
Toyota's not having an easy time with the Tundra so far. It's been criticized for lacking a fully-boxed frame, the internet is alight with Tundra-hate, and now along comes the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Both Regular and Double Cab variants of Toyota's intended domestic-fighter......
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Posted in Trucks/Pickups, safety, toyota | No Comments »
Monday, October 2nd, 2006
The hubbub surrounding the release of the redesigned Smart ForTwo has included the to-be-expected jokes about the car's tiny size, concerns about its perceived safety, and no small number of vocal defenders in the comment threads of our Smart posts. The pro-Smart crowd has touted the ForTwo's fuel e......
Tags: 5th gear, benz, commenters, concrete barrier, crash tests, deceleration, demonstration, fifth gear, fuel economy, highway speed, hubbub, jokes, no doubt, reminder, size concerns, smart fortwo, smart fortwo crash, SmartFortwoCrash, smashes, test source, tiff, tiny size
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