June 2011 Blog Posts (4)

Ralph Lauren's Car Collection. Featured at Louvre

Ralph Lauren is a car guy from the Bronx. Really.

OK, so he has built an image of the polo playing rich guy into a multi billion dollar company, and he now owns a considerable car collection....one so good it has it's own show at possibly the most famous art museum in the world, still I think he really…

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Added by GearMan on June 15, 2011 at 2:00pm — No Comments

The Rossion Q1 - my new obsession!

I stumbled across this car searching the inventory of a local dealership, of course the looks were the first thing that caught my eye but then when I did a little more research I was hooked! Basically these things run with the top cars in the world and only cost 100k new. I've seen a few slightly used on ebay for…

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Added by Sonny Recla on June 11, 2011 at 1:24pm — 4 Comments

Propeller Gather? Prop Gear? Australian invents "hover bike"

Not satisfied with the relative safety of Australian Rules Football, Rugby and swimming in croc infested rivers, Australian mad inventor and engineer Chris Malloy has invented the closest thing to a Star Wars-like hover bike that we are likely to see in this lifetime

With an estimated 10,000…

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Added by Jaylen B. on June 9, 2011 at 2:26pm — No Comments

New Season of Top Gear

Hey you Stig-wanabes!! I know that you are probably getting sick of watching Jeremy Clarkson and company in seemingly eternal reruns of Top Gear, but there isn't much any of us Petrol Head Colonials can do about it but wait. In the meantime though, our friends over at Final Gear have taken a proactive approach to this problem and provided a countdown timer to next…

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Added by Jaylen B. on June 7, 2011 at 2:40pm — 2 Comments