Moggie?
Moggie? No,
Moggie!
The Morgan Motor Company, not to be confused with
MG (
Morris Garages), is a lesser-known British sports car manufacturer building Morgan cars in scenic
Malvern Link, Worcestershire, since 1910. Perhaps most famous for selling cars with
wooden frames to this
very day, Morgan continues building their
most traditional cars alongside their
swoopiest new offerings.
The founder,
H. F. S. Morgan, started out building
three-wheelers in what is known as the
tadpole configuration, and their production continued until 1952, when Morgan moved entirely to four-wheelers.
Until 2011. [more inside]
posted by Purposeful Grimace
on May 9, 2013 -
47 comments
From the mid 40s to the mid 50s
Coronet Instructional Films were always ready to provide social guidance for teenagers on subjects as diverse as
dating,
popularity,
preparing for being drafted, and
shyness, as well as to children on
following the law,
the value of quietness in school, and
appreciating our parents. They also provided education on topics such as the connection between
attitudes and health,
what kind of people live in America,
how to keep a job,
supervising women workers,
the nature of capitalism, and
the plantation System in Southern life. Inside is an annotated collection of all 86 of the complete Coronet films in the
Prelinger Archives as well as a few more. Its not like you had work to do or anything right?
[more inside]
posted by Blasdelb
on Nov 1, 2012 -
41 comments
In 2007, City officials convened a group of stakeholders, including representatives of taxi drivers, owner and passengers, to create a set of goals for the next New York City taxi cab, a project called the Taxi of Tomorrow.
posted by Joe Beese
on Nov 16, 2010 -
40 comments
In the U.S., motorists do not pay their way. The US government spends more on highways and other auto-related expenses than it receives from auto-related taxes, unlike almost every country in Europe. In a recent
report [pdf], Mark Delucchi calculates automobile-related costs and revenues in three different ways and concludes the subsidy is around 20-70 cents per gallon or $24-105 billion in 2002. But what are automobile-related costs, you ask?
[more inside]
posted by salvia
on Oct 2, 2007 -
99 comments
For years,
MDI has been developing a car that runs on compressed air. Last month, they signed an
agreement with Tata Motors to produce the MiniCat - a zero-emissions vehicle that will travel up to 180 miles on $3 worth of fuel. See it in action
here.
(youtube)
posted by Afroblanco
on Mar 19, 2007 -
45 comments
Patent Room is a collection of early 20th Century industrial design culled from the archives of the U.S. Patent Office, featuring architecture, automobiles, toys, and trains.
posted by crunchland
on Aug 3, 2005 -
11 comments
Spray-on Mud - So you own a big 4x4, and you feel a bit stupid that you only use it to take the children to school. You want people to think you're a bit country - that you need 6 tonnes of car to get you from A to B because you like to take it off-road every so often. You need
Spray-on Mud apparently.
posted by The Ultimate Olympian
on Jun 14, 2005 -
101 comments
After an American car company
recreates its legendary
1960's Ferrari-beating race car, the first $150,000 2005 production car
sells at a charity event for $400,000 over sticker price, (to a
Microsoft-enriched individual, of course) and many months later, dealers are still asking up to
$200,000 over sticker, or at least
$150,000 over sticker. The "experts" at Edmunds say the car is selling for
about $100,000 over sticker (seeing their "True Market Value" requires a few clicks from this page), and the widespread belief is that these
admittedly amazing cars are virtually impossible to find and all selling for at least $100,000 over sticker.
But using publicly available data, including completed eBay auctions and
public documents, this
non-commercial site shows the truth to be very different than the hype.
posted by escorter
on May 13, 2005 -
32 comments
These
images
caused a great debate
among my antipodean circle in London whether they are real or have been
photoshopped. As far as we can gather it
does
exist. But it is surreal - and only in the UK surely would something like
this be real.
posted by Samuel Farrow
on Sep 8, 2004 -
85 comments
Do Cars force us to give up the outdoors? In jail, prisoners are stuck indoors and aren't allowed to go outside except for an hour at most. But are the car-driving residents of the average American suburb consigned to the same fate? "You go from the box garage in the house to the box car, driving down the street, not touching anything or being part of your environment" says Jessica Denevan. [More Inside]
posted by gregb1007
on Sep 16, 2003 -
70 comments
The first 50 years of Fiat advertising images. Fiat has been a pioneer in the development and management of its corporate image through advertising. Famous artists as Dudovich, Codognato, Casorati and De Chirico have created beautiful posters and designs for this Italian giant of which 100 from the 1899 to 1950 period have been selected for their online historial archive. The oldest being this fantastic “
Fabbrica Italiana Di Automobili” poster from 1899.
posted by riffola
on Jun 8, 2003 -
7 comments
"This car isn't meant to be an SUV, a mini-van, or a sedan" ... becuase, of course, it's a station wagon (the body type that dare not speak its name), albeit a sleek new Chrysler Pacifica, now starring in double-page spreads in your finer magazines. The Europeans have never stopped making great wagons, but its been a while since anything less apalling than the Taurus Wagon came out of Detroit or Tokyo.
posted by MattD
on Dec 18, 2002 -
49 comments
To lessen the clutter on their dashboard, a German auto manufacturer has put in a
data screen and command input device that allows the driver to control 700 different aspects of their driving experience (including Navigation, Communication, Car Data, and Settings). More interestingly, there's an
undocumented feature in the high-tech control system -- Press the right buttons in the right order and the car will launch you from a stop after revving the engine to 5,000 rpm... at least it will if you're in Europe, where performing the trick more than 15 times voids the car's warranty. Cars sold here in the US will only rev to 1,500 rpm. Supposedly, this is the first example of an
Automotive Easter Egg.
posted by crunchland
on Nov 1, 2002 -
17 comments
crashbonsai No passengers have been injured in CrashBonsai accidents, although some drivers have reported a brief, even euphoric loss of consciousness.
posted by ginz
on Sep 5, 2002 -
14 comments
