Culture|Garage

create & buy custom products at Zazzle

Well, there you go. You are now a fashionable car guy or gal. The beauty of this, is we allow you to customize the shirt, say you like the hoodie, but want it in a different color… it’s cool just pick a different color. The other good news, if you buy this shirt and wear it to an event (car show, track day, etc) culture|garage will PayPal you a whole dollar and feature a picture of you in a “you are famous” gallery. We may even feature a babe of the month wearing a culture|garage shirt. I expect rampant traffic to the Zazzle site due to this… they have assured me that they will support the server load. Perhaps xBox Live should take notes from Zazzle.

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Teen trends on Dr. Phil. This episode is on street racing and involves two young guys who drive ugly Mitsus. Dr. Phil is not a fan of street racers… or fat DSM drivers. Further proof that DSMs are for n00b drivers. Real street racers pay off the cops and have streets shut down. Myself, I only street race on secluded sections of road, like Lower Wacker. And true street racers know that passing on the shoulder is fair game. Kidding aside, street racing is bad, mmmmm kay. Keep it to the track, that way you are only endangering your own dumb ass. If you are interested in getting into ameateur racing; check out SCCA and NASA. And just for some fun here is an in-car video of my last track day.

And for the record, I don’t have anything against DSMs. Just SRT-4 drivers.

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 GrandJDM covers the wacky world of Japanese automotive modifications.  And apparently those wacky tastes are also making the move into motorcycles.  My favorite part of the above photo is that they are wearing masks to protect their lungs from pollution… yet are wearing short sleeves and no helmet.  Apparently this trend is called bosozoku, a subculture/gang (lol) of motorcycle riders that modify their bikes illegally, by (gasp!) removing the mufflers.  Watch out Hell’s Angels… here come the boso boys!

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I snapped the above pic in the parking lot of my apartment building today.

Who are these people fooling? I didn’t know a bone stock, late model Tahoe was badass. I mean maybe if the thing was a candy apple red, lifted Blazer running super swampers I could understand. But not a champagne colored kid hauler that might only see offroad action if the owner gets impatient during a traffic jam and has to pull one of those u-turns across the median.

The (Chevy?) truck from the Terminator movies that the guy is driving in the future sequences with the big chain gun mounted on it was badass because it was being driven through a pile of human skulls and being hunted down by a giant flying robot. Now THAT thing was a bad ass toy.

Continue after the jump for a picture of that terminator truck, more rants about stickers, and another funny pic from my parking lot. Read the rest of this entry »

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Because the rest aren’t worth the space they take up on my server.  Here are some (I guess) long awaited photos of the new CTS-V, via GM Inside News.  The interior looks good, but the rest looks pretty beat.  I mean the front end looks like Paul Wall smiling.  That’s a nasty grille.  Rumor has it that the guy we made infamous, for blowing the cats out of his car with his mad tight tuning skills, will be first inline to pick up this car.  Apparently, this time he is going to give it a run with MegaSquirt and NOS.

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Ok, we aren’t going to lie, the video starts out pretty yawn worthy, kind of like the latest iteration of National Treasure.  But as the video progresses it shows the full line of RUF products.  If you aren’t in the know, RUF is Porsche + “even more bad assedness.”  And apparently when you have one of the most incredible cars on the road, you drive it through rock quarries and film it from multiple angles.  The sounds alone are worth staying tuned for.

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Why does Edmunds get to have all the fun? Note to manufacturers: in three weeks time we managed to make the front page of digg and have 60,000 views in a single day. Not bad for a site that is a working thesis project. I digress, this video may have been around for awhile, but we don’t pride ourselves in being the first… just the best designed This car kicks ass and here is a video to prove it. I was lucky enough to hop in one this weekend and start it up and rev it–and wow, it sounded incredible. For more on the GT-R, check out Nissan’s sitelet.

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Thanks to the Spanish auto site Motorpasión which has posted the first press release photos of the Audi TT-S coupe and roadster. This will be a hardcore version of the regular TT, similar to the S-branded Audi lineup.

The TT-S is rumored to get Audi’s 2.0 TFSI four cylinder producing 272 hp. Among the changes is revised bodywork, LED daytime lights (similar to the ones found on the S6 and R8) and your choice of 17- or 18- inch wheels.

More pictures after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

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