Authorities in Mexico recently seized this truck-mounted "marijuana cannon" capable of firing 30-pound cylinders of pot over a border fence into California. Click on over to Gawker for the full story. ]]>Earlier this month I was in Bahrain taking some photos of the McLaren P1. While I was there, my assistant Paul from LoveCars got given the key to this lovely McLaren 12C Spider for a few days to drive us round in.While I woke up early to shoot on the second day, I let Paul have a little lie in as long as he brought us breakfast. He later sent me this picture of the 12C outside a very under developed looking McDonalds drive through. Apparently they didn't even bat an eyelid at the car... They must be used to awesome cars turning up there!
So what's the best car you've seen at a drive through? Feel free to post your pictures!
]]>We all love driving, but at a certain point you can cross a line of social acceptability. We saw a crash today that reminded us of this line.The crash was that of a Canadian professor behind the wheel of his Maserati Quattroporte. He injured another driver in a truck and he wrecked his car. One reader wondered why it seemed like we were bringing an unnecessarily harsh view on the incident.
I'm not cool with persecuting a man on the internet for owning a nice car, driving with enthusiasm, and getting in a wreck. I'm not sure that the slant of this story matches the facts, and it feels like the writer is just trolling for a bunch of "what a douche" and "he didn't earn it" reactions.
Reader TurboLag23 responded with some words of wisdom that are not only useful in interpreting this case, but should be remembered every time you put your foot to the floor.
There's a difference between driving with enthusiasm and being a douche nozzle.
I drive enthusiastically when there's nobody in front of me and it's a sunny day on Mulholland Highway between Las Virgines and Decker and the windows are down and the iPod's in on my awesome playlist. All that in my automatic 2008 Acura TL or 2004 Subaru Outback H6.
People drive like douches when they have cars with modified/loud exhaust systems (Maser is included because of the sport exhaust), and they just sit there revving the piss out of it at stoplights trying to impress the 60-year-old elementary school teacher in the Accord next to them.
I would agree with you if he fell into the first group, but since he falls into the second group, I can't cosign on your post. Sorry bro.
It’s a tricky subject because most car would be happy to cheer for a McLaren doing a burnout on the street, but would hate a guy doing the same in a trashy Nissan. What’s the worst case of dicktastic driving you’ve seen on the street, and would you have been more forgiving if the driver was behind the wheel of an exotic?
Photo Credit: McLaren
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d Run]]>Hey, wanna buy John Z. DeLorean's house in California? It's not as cool as you'd think it is. But it's pretty nice. And crazy expensive.For just $2.18 million, you can find yourself in John Z.'s 17-acre, four-bedroom 1960 ranch house in the Pauma Valley Country Club in San Diego County. There are also horse stables. I would have expected a garage full of muscle cars and DMC-12s, but horses are nice too, I guess. Insert the cocaine joke of your choice here, please.
Fortunately, the country club it's in has a private airport of its own, so maybe you can convince them to let you engage in some airstrip hoonage. John Z., who as you all know died in 2005, would have wanted it that way. And no, the doors are not gull-winged, sorry.
Photo credit The Davidson Group
Hat tip to Adrian at Curbed!
]]>Many people seem to want to lump American cars and Canadian cars into just one big category but, there are several companies who created Canadian unique cars to fit with Canadian needs. Just like in every Country – some cars make it, some cars don't. Several cars were simply renamed in order to seem like completely different cars, however some auto companies actually listened to Canadian wants and needs and strove to create Canadian exclusive cars. It took several trials and errors, but in the end, these companies and consumers were ‘rewarded’ with Canadian exclusive cars. Here’s a list of the ones that stood out:HTT Pléthore
This baby has rightfully earned it's place as the first Canadian supercar to ever grace the northern markets. It was first proposed on Dragon's Den, the Canadian equivalent of Shark Tank – a show where hopeful entrepreneurs feature their ideas to investors with the intention of making their dreams come true. It's body is made entirely of Carbon Fiber and is rumoured to have a power-to-weight ratio of a formula one racecar. You can thank this car for putting Canada on the map for high end supercars.
Bricklin SV-1
This Delorean/Corvette lovechild is the only car in automotive history to have powered gull wing doors that opened and closed at the touch of a button. Take that, Marty Mcfly! This car was branded as a safe and economical sports car and was assembled in New Brunswick, Canada from 1974-1976.
Acadian
Made in an effort to have Canadian Pontiac-Buick dealers to have a compact model to sell since other compact models were unavailable in Canada. They were sold with four cylinder, six cylinder or V8 engines. They also came in three or four speed manual or two speed power glide model.
Asuna Sunfire
Only made during the 1993 production year as a response to Geo. The first cars to introduce rear wheel steering. Production was limited to a 1.8 litter engine, and a hatch back body. Due to poor sales however, Asuna was shut down. The Sunfire was moved over to the Pontiac line.
Pontiac Tempest
Innovative in its time for the rear mounted transaxle, which coupled with front mounted engine gave the Tempest a very near ideal fifty-fifty front rear weight distribution.
Pontiac Pursuit
A Canadian only version of the Pontiac G5 that had a four door option instead of only two doors. It came with a 2.2 liter engine. It offered your choice of either a five speed manual transmission or a four speed automatic transmission.
Meteor
A Canadian only subsidiarity of Ford. Used the flat head V8 engine in all of the Canadian models. Also a six cylinder engine for all its models. The only difference between Meteor models came from using different instrument panels and dashboards.
Mercury M-Series
Produced from 1946 to 1968 by the Ford Motor Company of Canada. It contained a flat head V8 engine. It was introduced as a way to market more trucks to smaller communities of Canada.
Dodge Regent
Built as a Canadian exclusive car from the Chrysler Corporation of Canada. It was a rather low priced line filled with mismatched parts, and poor body engineering due to the rush to get it in production.
Acura CSX
Although called a Honda Civic in other markets, this car is an exclusive car to Canada. Some variations in design make it unique from the Honda Civic. These variations include a longer nose up front. In the rear the Acura CSX has jeweled tail lamps making it look more upscale then its counterpart.
Although a lot of car companies simply added a few new features to existing cars they helped to create the Canadian exclusive car market. These cars are meant to cater specially to the needs of Canadian consumers. However, none of these cars have ever made it to the top ten cars in Canada. These cars were meant to be designed with Canadian specific needs in mind. I have no idea how these car companies collected this research or if it was trial and error. One thing is for sure though, it sure makes us Canadians feel special.
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