Dale Earnhardt is Tweeting from the grave. Sort of.
While it’s safe to say those words have never before been strung together in the history of, well, human language, what’s more remarkable is how Earnhardt’s legacy is being turned into a carnival show.
Tweeting under the user name daleday09, someone at Dale Earnhardt, Inc. typed (below a picture of Earnhardt clad in sunglasses), “Just reviewed plans for the April 29 birthday celebration – the cake is looking great!â€
Really? So what you’re telling us about the upcoming event is that you’ve already started baking a cake for a birthday party that won’t take place for another two weeks?
To catch a glimpse of why DEI is swirling down the crapper, and in the process dirtying the legend of the late Dale Earnhardt, one needs to do little more than look at…Â Details
Porsche has either not read “The Art of War†or it doesn’t believe it. The German sports car powerhouse has declared that its upcoming Panamera four-door will take on – and beat – just about everybody. Few prestige cars have escaped the sights of Porsche’s Panamera and it has effectively declared war on every potential rival: Its neighbors in Stuttgart, Munich and Ingolstadt, to the English, the Italians and even the Japanese.
But it’s not just rival four-doors, because Porsche believes its Panamera is so good it will comfortably tackle everything from pure-bred sports cars to luxury limos to everything in between. At a recent technology workshop for the upcoming Panamera, the head of its driveline development group, Dr Heinz-Jakob Neuβer, insisted the 197-inch-long grand tourer was so strong it would… DetailsÂ
Electric car business Tesla Motors Inc. took 711 reservations, at $5,000 a pop, for its model S sedan, due out in late 2011, in the two weeks since it first showed the car.
That adds up to $3.5 million for the company, although the $5,000 reservation fees are refundable.
The sedan model will cost about $57,500 each, although owners will be eligible for a $7,500 tax credit, cutting the cost to about $50,000…Â Details
Start your engines and your fake moustaches! It’s a road trip!
In the spirit of Smokey and the Bandit, the Cannonball Run movies and Lebowskifest comes a post-college, good times event called the Rental Car Rally. This is a chance for you and your friends to race others (at the legal speed limit) from San Francisco, California to Yuma, Arizona for $1,000 cash and a golden gas pump.
The specific locations of the starting and finishing points will be disclosed the day of the event, June 12th.The race starts at 9 pm …Â Details