Car WTFs
Chevy Colorado Will Take Any Win It Can Get – Accidental Or Not
You know Chevrolet has had a rough month promoting the new Colorado when the highlight is a company executive hilariously flubbing a presentation speech for the new truck. While Chevy has done an admirable job making light of the Word Series gaffe, the rest of the news about the truck hasn’t been as laughable.
First, the truck was recalled after barely making it off of the line due to a defective airbag. So the measly 36 Colorados that were already sold had to come back because the airbag connections were incorrectly wired during manufacturing. This makes it likely that the very Colorado that was presented to World Series MVP Madison Bumgarner had to be rewired.
Madison Mumgarner’s new Colorado was recalled.
More bad news came when three new Colorados were being driven to a major kickoff event to celebrate General Motors’ reintroduction to the mid-size truck segment at the St. Louis Hollywood Casino earlier this week. Somehow, two of the Colorados got mixed up in an accident before the odometers even tripped 100 miles. Even worse is the fact that the other vehicle involved in the accident was its sister vehicle, a 2015 GMC Canyon – that was headed to the same event. So three out of the four GM products going to the show crashed.
The incident report reads as follows:
“vehicle 1 struck the rear of vehicle 2, causing vehicle 2 to strike the rear of vehicle 3. Vehicle 3 swerved, and vehicle 2 continued and struck the rear of vehicle 4.”
The end result was two of the trucks being totalled. No one was injured – which does speak well to the truck’s new safety features. You know, technology and stuff.
Maybe after such dismal news, the bowtie brand needed someone like the Chevy Guy to get people laughing. If nothing else, it got people talking about the truck, which is a win for any marketing campaign. Having seen the truck first-hand, I have to say I’m optimistic (unlike some) about its future, and I’m hoping it can succeed.
Some accidental exposure might be the kick-start the truck really needed. After all, I wouldn’t be writing about a St. Louis Hollywood Casino kickoff event or a boring MVP presentation.
Many of us thought that the Dodge Challenger Hellcat was about as intimidating as a car could get. After all, people couldn’t hardly get them off the lot without crashing them when they first came out. Then Dodge upped the ante with the new Demon. But aside from the raw power, there are some other interesting aspects of the new Demon.
Check out the video below for a full rundown of just how unique this car is.
Think you finally have your Mercedes names mastered? Well, a new challenge appears to be coming, friend.
How to now identify Mercedes models by name
Some moves in the northwoods of Canada by the brand appear to signal a change in the naming conventions that will be used for Mercedes and AMG models. Candian trademarks have been filed for A 40, CLA 40, SLC 40, SLC 50 and GLE 50 in addition to CLA 53, G73 and S73.
If this proves true in the states, it would signal an end to the rule of two digits for Mercedes, three-digits for AMG counterparts. The new world would be two digits, ending in a “0” for Mercedes, and two digits ending in a “3” for AMG. This supports rumors of an AMG ‘73’ model with a hybrid powertrain.
While this change isn’t terribly difficult to comprehend, it certainly makes things interesting when comparing legacy and upcoming Mercedes models. There are a lot of numbers to keep straight, and a lot of explaining to do. And the letter and number combos leave something to be desired in terms of cachet.
It makes one appreciate the simplicity of giving each vehicle an actual name, like the domestic manufacturers do. Sure, that’s how we ended up with the Chevy Nova, but what are you going to do? There are only so many names, surely one for an automobile would end up meaning “no go” in some language, right?…
I like my car. It’s a 2011 Toyota toaster, I mean Camry. If you made a list of everything a car has to do, the Camry would check all the boxes. It gets me from point A to point B with the consistency a learning golfer would envy. It’s a toaster. You put in the bread, choose your level of toastiness, push down the thingy and then wait for it to pop up. But there is one interesting thing about my car. The shifter. That’s it up there. That is definitely not conventional at all. So, what’s with Toyota’s weird shifter pattern? (more…)
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