MAMA favors Fusion, now Family Vehicle of the Year
February 12, 2013 by Paramo Bloggers · Leave a Comment
The Midwest Automotive Media Association, gracious hosts of the Spring Collection Road Rally at Road America each year, has bestowed on the 2013 Ford Fusion its Family Vehicle of the Year award.
Ford Boosts Services for SYNC AppLink
January 8, 2013 by Paramo Bloggers · Leave a Comment
Ford once again has a big presence at this year’s International CES event—the world’s foremost exhibition of the latest in consumer electronics—as the Blue Oval continues to cement its leadership position as one of the most innovative automakers in business today.
5 Reasons to Love Solar Car Racing
August 12, 2010 by yago · Leave a Comment
This week 32 solar powered cars from 17 countries have converged on Australia’s outback to compete for the title of World Solar Car Champion. The race, the “World Solar Challenge” takes place every two years – giving teams ample time to raise money, design, build and test their dream vehicles. It’s a unique event and [...]
BMW Art Car Collection
August 12, 2010 by yago · Leave a Comment
A link to the complete collection of BMW art cars done by renown artists including Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, and Olafur Eliasson. One day I would love the honor of creating an art car for BMW. BMW Art Car Collection This idea is particularly interesting to me because the dynamic of the art car changes [...]
Installing ‘smarter highways’ signs to cause I-5 closures
July 23, 2010 by yago · Leave a Comment
Interstate 5 in South Seattle will be closed nightly for the next three weekends while the state Department of Transportation (DOT) installs new signs as part of its “smarter highways” project to help reduce traffic congestion. The signs will eventually go up on Interstate 5, Interstate 90 and Highway 520, and the first signs on [...]
Old Design Appreciated Now, Ford Happy
July 23, 2010 by yago · Leave a Comment
Twenty first century seems to be more liberal to designers who have wild designs in their mind. Take the 021c which was unveiled by Ford in 1999, with the help of designer Marc Newson. The car had swiveling seats, large doors, good specs and a great trunk. It was also meant to be affordable and [...]
BMW Vision EfficientDynamics
June 20, 2010 by yago · Leave a Comment
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California sat behind the wheel of the BMW Vision EfficientDynamics concept car this week at the Los Angeles auto show. But just before the futuristic car’s trip out West, it made a stop at BMW’s offices in New Jersey to inform and inspire the staff. I stopped by to look at [...]
Paint Sprinkled Car Design
June 20, 2010 by yago · Leave a Comment
Most cars are either solid colours or hideously “modded” in order to make them look customized. However, it is heartening to learn that there are designers who would try and turn fuming cars into artistic marvels. London based designer Rolf Sachs teamed up with Smart Car in order to present this amazing car sprinkling art [...]
BMW art car by Jeff Koons
June 2, 2010 by yago · Leave a Comment
The latest in a 35-year-long run of BMW art cars was unveiled in Paris today ahead of its participation in next week’s 24 hours of Le Mans. The M3 GT2 was painted by American artist Jeff Koons with a multicolored theme that should look pretty wild when photographed running down the Mulsanne straight after dark. [...]
Seattle Art Museum “Cars”
June 2, 2010 by yago · Leave a Comment
Experience SAM Cars bursting at the seams with art, performances, talks, dancing and more at this late-night creative explosion! Artist talk and book signing with Roy McMakin (9 pm) Rare screenings of Andy Warhol’s Fifteen Minutes, shown on MTV in the 1980s (9 pm and 11 pm) Variety performances by the effervescent Sylvia O’Stayformore with [...]
