Posts Tagged ‘netherlands’

Father and child survive Ferrari crash

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
It may be difficult to tell from the pictures, but this used to be a Ferrari F430 Spider. That was until its driver, baby on board, managed to total the car on the A58 highway in Holland.Miraculously, both the driver and his child were spared their lives, despite bring thrown outside the car during ......

Holland gets special-edition Land Rover to benefit Malaria

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
Click on the image above to view in high resolution Close your eyes, we're going to play a little automotive word association. Just one round. Think of "malaria" – now what vehicle are you associating with the unfortunate disease? It could only be the Land Rover Defender, the go-anywhere, no-nonse......

Meet the Fiat 500, Holland’s newest junior detective

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
We already know that overseas, police cars are not the full-size cruisers we have patrolling our highways in America. But come on, there's a limit.This Fiat 500, all decked out in police striping and with a little flashing light on the roof, was snapped while parading around Amsterdam with the Dutch......

Chrysler No. 56 on 101 Dumbest Moments in Business list

Monday, October 8th, 2007
Fortune has called the notorious, dog-frying Dodge Nitro commercial done by BBDO Netherlands the 56th Dumbest Moment in Business. If you initially missed this story and are jjust hearing about the spot for the first time, you might think Fortune iseither picking on Chrysler or that it was an exceedi......

Opel delivers sportiness in the Vivaro VPC

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Click image for high-res galleryIn Europe, no niche remains unaddressed, it seems. Business owners looking for a hottish-looking ride in their delivery vehicles were offered the Transit SportVan earlier this year by Ford. It combined the utility of the Transit with the optics of a Focus ST, what wit......

Rumormill: Marcos bankrupt again

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
Word out of Holland -- and translated by Babelfish -- is that 40-year-old British car maker Marcos has gone bankrupt again. Most recently rescued in 2002, and headed by Tony Stelliga, a purported statement from the company cited an inability to get Marcos profitable or raise extra capital. There was......

New Pagani Zonda R renderings released

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
Click for photo galleryIt might look very similar to the Zonda F it's replacing, but in truth, there's only about 10% carryover from Horacio Pagani's previous creation to his latest. No matter. Awesome is awesome, regardless of everything else, and the Zonda R belongs next to the term in the diction......

Spy Shots: Facelifted Aston Martin V8 Vantage

Friday, June 15th, 2007
Click over to see four large images at AutoGespot!Our friends from the Netherlands are back at it, capturing a hot new car before anybody else. Sporting U.S.-spec orange side markers, these special Vantage V8s made a brief appearance and started rumors that we might be in store for a sportier new v......

Killing a dog with a Nitro wasn’t such a good idea after all

Friday, May 18th, 2007
When an ad agency supporting Chrysler's Netherlands Market Performance Center created a viral ad for the Dodge Nitro that depicted a dog being electrocuted by the vehicle, they were so smitten with their work that they decided to put it on YouTube. The timing of the spot couldn't be any worse here i......

New pic of Vandenbrink 599 GTO released

Friday, April 6th, 2007
click above image for our entire gallery showing the Vandenbrink 599 GTOWith three of the planned five copies already spoken for, Michiel van den Brink's GTO homage is going fast. And it's not just because of the Enzo-derived powerplant under its elegant bonnet. We just talked about this limited ru......