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Film fans who harbor secret dreams of stardom--Ford wants you.
The automaker's teaming up with Web site Filmaka to get you to write the next chapter in the Mustang's history--one of eight of them, actually. Ford's posted
eight story ideas at the site and is encouraging budding script writers to pen vignettes based on the ideas. Or,
Ford says, writers can create their own story.
What's the point? Ford's putting all of them into a pile and choosing 20 of them to go into production with a $5,000 budget each. The semi-finalists will have to be shot, edited, and posted to Filmaka by September 16 to have a chance at a $5,000 grand prize. The Grand Prize winner will also be asked back to help film material for the
2010 Ford Mustang reveal, which takes place later this year at the
Los Angeles auto show.
The catch? Scripts are due tomorrow, August 26. Nothing like a deadline, eh?
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Incredible road-going convenience, or sign of the obesity Armageddon? It's both!
According to the KickingTires blog, which got it from Gizmodo, which passed it on via CNet, a British Web site is offering an in-car microwave for your culinary cross-country trips. Need a burrito piping-hot on the Tehachapi freeway? Or maybe some jambalaya while you're sitting in New Orleans traffic on I-10 at Clearview? This 12-volt nukecrowave is the ticket. "You no longer have to worry about searching for places to eat as the microwave ensures you can plan your day as you want to and eat when you''re hungry," they say confidently, obviously never having driven in America.
According to the site, it delivers up to 660 watts of cooking power, on par with dorm-room micros, when it's strapped right into the car battery, or 175 watts when run off the cigarette lighter. There's an LED screen to tap in your heat selections, and then it's a waiting game--more than five minutes to perk up a cup of coffee on the low-power configuration.
We're shocked that
Ford didn't see this one coming and install it in the 2009 Flex, along with the second-row fridge. It might do well in Britain, where roadside conveniences are lacking, but on our roads it seems like nonsense. Nonetheless, we're wishing them well, and hoping that maybe the Chinese factory workers cranking these out got some free tickets to the Olympic badminton matches, in leg irons or not.
In-Car Microwave via
KickingTires
Posted in : 2008, Driving, Just for Fun
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Joseph Macko isn't a casual fan of Cadillac--he may be the GM brand's most loyal long-lived customer.
The
Flint Journal says the 84-year-old Macko has been driving
Cadillacs since 1955. New
Cadillacs. This week Macko brought home his 53rd new Caddy in a row--the latest one from a Michigan dealership that's sold him 22 cars in a row.
He used to buy new
Cadillacs, but now Macko leases them, and this year's lease is a
2009 Cadillac DTS--in black. He likes the cars, he says, because of their quality.
And why a new car every year? "You only live one time. Money is to spend," Macko told the paper. "I spend it once I get it."
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You waited long enough for the
2009 Ford Flex--and now you want that authentic Country Squire look without having to resort to shelf paper, scissors and a keen eye for straight edges. No need to worry--an aftermarket company's all set to Woody-fy your Flex and make it into something we all predicted would happen (hell, we even ran spy shots of a Flex with some kind of wrapping paper applied to it).
Auto Tech Plastics is the maker of the new Flex Woody kit. For $899, they'll give you a set of contact appliques and plastic trim that extend over the tops of the doors and the hatch area for a more seamless Woody look. The simulated grain apes teak and oak for a classic appearance not unlike that seen at this past weekend's Pebble Beach Concours, right alongside several Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang replicas and Colonel Klink's staff car. The Woody kit's guaranteed for three years, so peeling worries should be confined to your pasty skin.
You will have to apply the textures yourself--it looks easier than an Ikea bookshelf, but maybe some help would be a good thing. Auto Tech also offers professional installation, though they claim an 80-year-old grandmother has installed one. Call 800-447-8410 if you're itching to one-up her, or cruise to
their Web site.
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