2010 NASCAR Sprint Media Tour Monday (Day 1)
19.01.10
Collective media was humming with NASCAR interrelated tweets, twitters, facebook posts, and the like today as NASCAR kicked off its 28th annual media jaunt today.
I spent some of my time at lunch and when I got stamping-ground from work catching up on what various people in the NASCAR media were saying about the start of the journey today.
Oh and I also spent most of today wishing that I was there on the trek too. I could have been there, after all being a member of NASCAR's Patrial Journalists does have some advantages, but unfortunately the trade I do here at NASCAR RnR doesn't pay the bills, my day job does that and my firm isn't going to let me just get up and go cover NASCAR anytime I please that's for established.
Anyway, here are some of things that came out of today that we should be wise of;
- NASCAR writer Jeff Gluck isn't throwing in the towel; even though he isn't with The Episode anymore he is still out there plugging away with habitual Tweets and blog posts from the media enlistment. Jeff even started his own ephemeral blog until he starts his new job with "A company that specializes in sports blogs has hired me to start a NASCAR blog" which will launch some time before Daytona Speedweeks.
Source: NASCAR Ranting and Raving (blog)
The New Taurus at the Top
16.01.10
Chrysler 300C AWD, $40,800. The Pontiac G8 GXP and Chevrolet Impala SS have been discontinued.
TO benchmark the interpretation of the new Taurus SHO with the EcoBoost engine, I took it to the vomit-provoking Nacimiento-Fergusson Road perfectly south of Big Sur on the California coast. This abject, narrow strip of crumbling asphalt zigzags uphill like an divertissement park thrill ride, rising from the emotionless Pacific Coast over steep mountains and into hot, dusty highlands.
Not many people peregrinations this road. Not many people even know about it. If you do conscious it, you probably know to avoid it.
The automobile companies, however, identify this road — and occasionally, they feather test cars on it. That is how, in 2001, I came here with a put together of journalists testing preproduction Ford Thunderbirds.
So a earnings seemed in order. The T-Birds were powered by V-8 engines and this Taurus SHO has a associate-turbo V-6. Ford says it produces power on par with a V-8 while achieving 6-cylinder encouragement economy. (The last-generation SHO of 1996-99 had a V-8 developed with Yamaha.)
Source: New York Times
Chrysler 300 S6 And S8 At Detroit 2010 – Hello, Audi?
11.01.10
Did Audi say YES?
We do not skilled in what the Germans have to say about this, but we know for sure that the S6 and S8 are connected to the sports models of Audi A6 and A8 ,individually. Indicative that, as far as we know, Audi has not preordained up on.
Just like like Move aside did, the brand they own, Chrysler has announced its association at Detroit in 2010 only with some special editions and some new lines of furnishings for the models of the current line-up. And most mighty innovations are the new versions of Chrysler 300C. Where the “C” was replaced with S6 or S8, depending on the appliance under the hood: V6 or V8.
Although the Chrysler marketing activity be contingent calls these cars the “new Chrysler 300 S6 and 300 S8″, it is explicate to everyone that we deal with a subtle facelift, the pipe change for 2010 is the black grille with chrome edges, exasperating to depart the vehicle from the bling warmth, providing performance and sobriety. However, the debonair and chromed 20″ wheels, take us back into the American savoir vivre.
Source: Mibz (blog)
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