Posts Tagged ‘stefan’
As it currently stands, gas in China costs about half what it does in most other countries, and the government spends billions to keep it that way. This being the case, expensive hybrids like the Toyota Prius don't sell in very large numbers. Still, there are a number of analysts who predict that ga......
Toyota considering exporting big trucks
Monday, August 11th, 2008
Click above for a high-res gallery of the Toyota Tundra.The Toyota Tundra is the most competent pickup Toyota has ever produced, but the two-year-old truck has been hit hard by the harsh reality of the US auto slump. Gas prices and a sluggish housing industry have conspired to put a wet blanket on t......
Spotted in the wild: 1968 Lamborghini Islero
Saturday, May 31st, 2008
Click the Islero for a high-res galleryFor a car fan it's always cool to be wandering around somewhere and stumble across an extremely rare automobile. That's especially when it's out on the road in a most unlikely of locales. My wife and I took a little road trip this weekend in the new Saab Turbo......
Is Japan facing a post-car society?
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Could the country that gave us the NSX, Godzilla -- and the other Godzilla -- and The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift be on the verge of giving up cars for good? With car buying down by close to 33-percent since 1990, Japan is claimed to be in the grips of kuruma banare, which, for Japanese carm......
Eriksson strikes again! Enzo-crasher charged with hit-and-run in a Porsche
Thursday, September 14th, 2006
The case file on Stefan Eriksson just keeps growing longer and longer. The failed video-game executive crashed (and completely destroyed) a Ferrari Enzo on February 21. Totaling an Enzo is enough to put him in our bad books, but Eriksson just keeps on digging deeper into trouble.First he was charged......
Stefan Eriksson turns down plea deal in L.A. court
Saturday, September 2nd, 2006
So you're Stefan Eriksson and you're being charged with three counts of embezzlement, three counts of grand theft auto and illegal gun possession. You've destroyed a Ferrari Enzo, one of the greatest exotic supercars of all time, and blamed it on your imaginary German friend, Dietrich. Oh, and you'r......