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  • Have you seen this truck?

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    A few weeks ago, my diesel Landcruiser got stolen in Berkeley. This happened to me once before, and the police found the truck a few days later. This time it hasn’t shown up, so I thought I’d ask the internet for help. Have you seen this truck parked or driving around San Francisco or the…

  • Rally Fighter

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    Sarah Stokes from Local Motors brought her brand new Rally Fighter to SxSW, and I got a chance to test drive it: The car looks great, sounds great, gets lots of attention, and is fun to drive. I was slightly disappointed that they switched from a BMW diesel to a Chevy gas engine, but hats…

  • IndyCar at Infineon

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    Last summer the GoDaddy crew treated us to a fun race weekend at Infineon Raceway – I finally got around to uploading some pictures:

  • Swiss car news

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    A couple of intriguing car innovations from my old homeland – both are deceptively simple: An ETH professor is working on a pneumatic hybrid engine. It stores excess energy as compressed air instead of using batteries, which could make hybrid engines simpler and cheaper. Rinspeed (a Zurich based Porsche dealer and tuner known for creating…

  • Tango vs Tesla

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  • Car porn

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    Do not click this link unless you are a serious car nerd.

  • Now this is excellent

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    A car that runs on air:

  • F1 video

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    A great clip for people who are into car racing. Gilles Villeneuve and Rene Arnoux battle it out for 2nd place in the 1979 French Grand Prix:

  • 2CV

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    Not that this car will ever make it to the US, but take a look: Apparently Citroen will release a successor to the classic 2CV. It looks great and will supposedly have an interesting sounding diesel hybrid drive train.

  • A commercial!

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    I’m not in the habit of linking to ads from my blog, but this one is pretty fun if you’re into car racing.

  • Carver

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    Check out this interesting three wheeled car, they have videos, a WordPress blog and bbPress forums.

  • Rinspeed concept car

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    AutoBlog: “Rinspeed seems to have a knack for coming up with wonderfully quirky answers to questions no one was really asking.”

  • Biodiesel progress report

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    After a couple of months and 1000 miles running my Landcruiser on biodiesel I have the following to report: Pros: Feels great to be driving on soybeans! Getting gas at SFbiofuels has been easy (very nice people there too) The car runs perfectly well and a little more quietly than on petrodiesel No more puffs…

  • Switching to biodiesel, part IV

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    It’s taken me a while, but I have finally made my transition to biodiesel! In the last installment I talked about picking up my diesel Land Rover in Port Hueneme and then getting it ready for the road. Well, something came up while it was in the shop getting fixed up. I had originally been…

  • Switching to biodiesel, part III

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    I’ve gotten quite a few questions about my progress on getting my diesel Land Rover into the country and running on biodiesel. Well, some things have gone well and some haven’t :). In my last installment I described how I had found a diesel Land Rover from an outfit called UK LandRovers in, you guessed…

  • Switching to biodiesel, part II

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    After deciding to give biodiesel a try, I had to get a diesel car. It’s not the easiest task in the world to find a good diesel in San Francisco. Because of current regulations, you can’t buy a new diesel in California. So cars like the Jeep Liberty CRD, or the various new diesel Volkswagen’s…