Automopedia’s Worst of the Week 11/20/2009
Welcome to Automopedia’s worst of the week – we take a look back at some of the more embarrassing auto news stories from around the globe – and these past 5 days were a dozy!
Bugatti Veyron Goes for a Swim
Someone did not inform this Bugatti driver their new roadsters don’t float. The lake crash of a $1.6 Million Dollar luxury sports car had automotive enthusiasts shouting “Mama Mia!!” – The accident occurred in Southeast Texas – which leaves us with about 1.6 million redneck jokes to make, oddly enough. According to one local news report: “The man, who refused to give his name, was looking at real estate in Galveston. About 3 p.m. a low-flying pelican distracted him as he traveled north on Interstate 45 just south of the hurricane levee near Omega Bay. The man jerked the wheel, dropped his cell phone, and the car’s front tire left the frontage road and entered a muddy patch, which foiled his attempt to maneuver away from the lagoon.”
Bob Lutz Resurrects Buick Regal
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The same company that axed all Pontiac production in favor of Buick (HA!) announced this week Regal will be back, along with a 335 horse power edition AND a wagon variant, for sale within a year. Yes, they are trying to recapture the youth market, via Bob Lutz, and Buick. Yeah, it makes sense to them – we’ll just sit back and watch it all crumble.
Still No Deals for F1
Finally in this week’s fail boat – F1 & Bernie Ecclestone get no respect lately – first off, pretty much every major auto maker pulls out of F1 races, and now the 2010 British Grand Prix may be scrapped. Montreal has already lost out on a race this year and possibly next – after several grand prix bids collapsed, the F1 chief execs have been locked in apparently stalled negotiations about the commercial terms of a long term contract. Safe to say if F1 news keep stumbling in this direction we will all have to start watching more NASCAR. Please, don’t let that happen.
if they would like to capture the youth market they could try a concept trial of the cult classic GNX/regal and favor a RWD platform of the camaro (so far sucessful) look of modern yet old school charm it is too cliche to see another boring european rooted design GM car like the solstice, sky, GTO, and aura to name a few. Bring back some low production number hottie from the FEW legends buick had to offer through the years and don’t go cute on it either! Make it mean and ugly and able to take a turn equal to its contenders , Oh wait MR LUTZ you did that before and seemed to work for years it was called the trans am and the people still bought it anyways just don’t make another aztec or a half-breed car from across the pond or CHINA and we might get out of a recession put art not politics back in the AMERICAN CAR