Cars

 With the announcement that GM's Onstar is partnering with RelayRides to allow GM car owners to sign up their cars to be rented by the hour, I figure there are a lot of people saying "What the shift? READ MORE>

 The 1970's brought an awesome top-mounting camping trailer for small cars like the Beetle.  It had excellent maneuverability, was light-weight, and the central mounting gave it great stability.  Today we the smart is much more powerful than the old Beetle, but we're hard pressed to find anything similar here.  Why's that?  Video below . . READ MORE>

In America we had Cash for Clunkers, officially called CARS to bolster the auto industry and get older, inefficient cars off the road.  I think that Germany might have a much more exciting program, and it also happens to be a program on TV. Alarm Fur Cobra 11 is a series in which two cops chase bad guys and usually end up causing massive pileups on the Autobahn. READ MORE>

 Today is a sad day for me.  I found out that the last VW plant to make the Mark 1 Golf, almost unchanged since 1974, has closed its operation, according to AutoBlogGreen.  Yes, they still made them in South Africa until then. The more recently made models were called the CITI Golf, and featured an updated interior and a few other things, but it is mostly as the original.  I'm very partial to that car, as it was my first one (pictured). READ MORE>

A VW, a Prius, and a Tesla seem to have done battle on a motorway in Denmark. Literally. If a smart fortwo was in there, it surely would have left as the victor. (via Jalopnik)