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Someone’s been vandalizing compact Smart cars in San Francisco, flipping the tiny vehicles on their front and rear ends in the city’s streets.
NBC Bay Area found four of the targeted Smart cars between Sunday night and Monday morning. Two were found in the Bernal Heights neighborhood on Anderson Street, and another was found a bit south on Sweeny and Bowdoin streets, closer to the Portola district. They were either sitting on their headlights, rear bumpers high in the air, or vice versa … More
Jalopnik has covered the Cars and Coffee phenomenon multiple times from multiple angles (and I’m pretty sure the folks over on Oppo are at least a little aware of it, too). We just thought we’d remind that, yeah, C-and-C is pretty much the best.
Our West Coast writer took a trip down California way recently and brought back some photos from that C-and-C granddaddy, Cars and Coffee Irvine.
There aren’t too many other car meets around where you’ll see … Pictures and more
This sure beats pushing. s UK division has set a lawn mower top speed record at 116.57 mph.
Not with one of its showroom models, but a custom “Mean Mower” that’s powered by the 1.0-liter engine from a Honda motorcycle that makes it nearly seven times more powerful than the factory machine it’s based on.
It’s also been fitted with a six-speed transmission, racing seat, high performance ATV tires, the steering rack from a Morris Minor automobile and a fiberglass cutting deck to reduce weight.
It cuts grass, but … More