Entries Tagged as 'Randomness'

When G35 kids want to drive GT-Rs, but have no money

June 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment

With Nissan’s GT-R coming to North American shores any time now, it’s no surprise that lesser beings want to mimic the much hyped GT-R. What’s surprising though is that Infiniti G35 owners are the ones adding GT-R styling cues. Yes, that’s right: Infinitis that want to look like Nissans. Go figure.
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Tags: Hooligans · Infiniti · Nissan · Randomness

Sexy Subaru Ad: Featuring Sumo Studs

May 19th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m not sure if this is NSFW or not, but Subaru just got a bit sexier with its latest commercial. The sixty second television ad takes the traditional idea of “hot chicks washing a car and rubbing their bodies” and adds sumo wrestlers to the mix - minus the [...]

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Tags: Ad Watch · Marketing · Randomness · Technology & Gadgets

Gran Turismo Academy to open in Dubai

May 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment

 
Sony Computer Entertainment out of Europe and Nissan have brought the two brands together to open a real-life racing academy in Dubai. The best and brightest drivers will eventually get behind the seat of a Nissan 350Z for a 24 hour endurance race sometime in January 2009. Finalists will also get, as part of [...]

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Tags: Nissan · Press Release · Racing · Randomness · Technology & Gadgets

The Office: Dwight’s Nissan X-Terra up for auction

May 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

 
This week one of my favorite tv shows, The Office, aired an episode where Dwight Schrute buys a car from Andy. That car happened to be a Nissan X-Terra actually owned by a staff member on the set. Now though, it’s on sale at e-Bay Motors looking for a nice bargain for the actual [...]

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Tags: Randomness · eBay Find

Shipping drugs to China? Dont hide them in a Mazda

April 21st, 2008 · No Comments

Here’s a warning for all you big drug lords that visit JCB - Chinese custom officials check funny looking cars for drugs. Especially if that funny looking car happens to be a Mazda from China’s arch rival.
Officials at Beijing airport let the dogs out on Mazda’s Taiki concept. Apparently the odd looking car was [...]

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Tags: Mazda · Randomness · Spotting

Truck driver accidentally drives into bridge, invents convertible pickup

April 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Some weekend delight for you all the way from Pakistan where a daring truck driver decided to redesign a handful of pickups. His tool? What else? A bridge. Take a speeding trucker, a low bridge and a double decker cargo of pickups and you can only imagine what happens next.
The overpass got its fair [...]

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Tags: Randomness

Swift Sedan goes on test drive, ends up in river

April 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Four people take a test drive of Maruti Suzuki’s DZire sedan from a dealership and drive into a river after skidding at what looks like a sharp turn. It is said that the accident was the result of reckless and negligent driving by the driver who had taken the newly-launched model of the Maruti [...]

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Tags: Not for North America · Randomness · Suzuki

Another new GT-R kills itself: Malaysia Crash Edition

March 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

A member at NAGTROC has taken some photos of another crashed 2009 Nissans GT-R R35. The car still has its showroom shine but a something hard has kicked the crap out of the front end. This is the second black GT-R that has been spotted all crunched up, the other was in Hong [...]

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Tags: Nissan · Randomness · Skyline GTR · Spotting