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Climbing aboard the Land Rover affectionately known as Huey, after being cosseted inside a luxurious, supercharged Range Rover V8, is nothing short of a culture shock. With no power assistance for anything, no soundproofing, no leather upholstery, no creature comforts whatsoever, this is motoring from a bygone era-and it's not easy.
There are some rudimentary instruments in the center of what barely passes for a dashboard, a couple of levers protruding from the bare metal floor, a measly leatherette seat squab between my butt and the fuel tank. It's slow off the mark, as one might expect from a 50-hp car built in 1948. It's noisy too. I can hear transmission whine and practically every valve, every piston, every lever doing its stuff. Changing gear elicits a thunk as metal meets metal and the next ratio is brought into play. read more »
GM'S response to Ford's spacey Thunder-bird was more Bentley than Buck Rogers, a tantalizing tango of lush curves and razor angles, with flat, trimless side glass borrowed from European custom coachbuilding.
Every year automotive journalists look forward to the Chicago Auto Show, not because it's America's largest, or its oldest (right on both counts), but because it's in Chicago. The Second City. The White City. Home of the Cubs, Buddy Guy, Al Capone, Oprah, the Sipowitz accent and deep dish pizza. And this year Chicago is going to be celebrating 100 years of auto shows with a better-than-usual roster of big reveals. When not downing a dog at the Wiener's Circle, a Honker's Ale at The Map Room or a slice at Gino's East, you can expect Jalopnik to be there in full force. The action has already started, with embargoes breaking like crazy. It gets more exciting tonight when the curtains surrounding some of the most anticipated concepts are finally drawn open. Below is our official, detailed and awesome cheat sheet to the 2008 Chicago Auto Show from Acura to Ze Germans! read more »
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