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Lewis Hamilton in Cars 2

Published by The Stig on March 28th, 2011 - in News

it is not that strange that Racing Drivers occasionally get enrolled in films to give the watcher a more authentic feel. However when it is for Cars 2, you know it is for fun.

If you have not guessed it by the title above Cars 2 will incorporate none other than Lewis Hamilton. He plays a role where he is racing in the same event as Lightning McQueen, the First-ever World Grand Prix.


As you can see Lewis cars looks superb in the next installment of Cars

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16 Days to rebuild Japanese Road

Published by The Stig on March 26th, 2011 - in News

If the UK ever experienced a earthquake that was close to the magnitude of the recent Earthquake at Japan I know that the country would be devastated. However how long would it take the country to rebuild?!

Well in Japan after the devastation of the earthquake not only were there relief efforts in place to find the missing or work put towards trying to prevent a nuclear fall out. They were able to repair roads such as the road that was on the news throughout the day te earthquake stuck. If you cannot remember the road in question below is the picture.

As you can see there was a huge 150 meter chasm generated by the earthquake changed the structure of the land and caused all kinds of structural headaches.

Well this photo was taken only 16 Days later. To be honest it was apparently less than that I have for the work to be completed. On the 17th March 2011 NEXCO were set to work to get the road back to a working state and with SIX days labor they had it rebuilt and ready for action.

If that was England your looking at 60 days. Just shows that some countries know how to do it. Maybe the highways agency should watch how Japan do it.

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BMW M3 Pickup?!

Published by The Stig on March 23rd, 2011 - in News

Do you know what? I never realised that Germans where that funny.

As you can see with the image above BMW have been testing a M3 Pickup at the Nurburgring over the last week. Obviously that has called quite a Pickup stir.

When BMW’s Munich head of product communications, Dirk Arnold was asked directly about this crazy concept he announced that it was nearly a “April Fool’s Joke”.

Now I am not a man to judge and I must admit that this is a brilliant prank. However I would love the money to throw away when it comes to a 60k April Fool’s Day plan. It is a very expensive prank if I am honest.

But I don’t care. I hope this crazy creativity continues and we get to see more crazy BMW’s in the future.

Hats off BMW, Hats off!!

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BMW M1 Has Configurator

Published by The Stig on March 10th, 2011 - in News

BMW have released the new configurator for the new BMW M1. Yeah ok this is for the American market but still there are some things in this that are just stupid.

I mean you pay nearly $60k for a BMW and you can only get it in one of three colours… White… Black… or Orange. Seriously I am sorry but if I had all that money I would want to be able to have a colour choice that goes a bit further than three colours.

Another thing that is really funny is the BMW Apps that you spend $250 on. So what is it well it is a feature when you can get on to social networking sites while your on the move. Really who wants to drive a powerful BMW around and play with Facebook and twitter at the same time.

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New BMW 6 series

Published by The Stig on February 24th, 2011 - in News

I know that the 6 series has never been a looker and to be honest never really was.

For all BMW’s were design by a crack team of German designers who were efficient at making a car beautifully German. However I have always felt that when it came to the 6 series they always got a little bit scared that they would make the 6 series look…. Well …. Nice.

They however prevented this by probably letting a number of children loose with crayons and say you finish this design off children.

Well the new 6 series is nothing other than continue how BMW designers mean to go on however in stead of letting children finish the design work they asked whale enthusiast to finish the design off.

New 6 series

New 6 series

A Beluga Whale

beluga whale

I know this is probably a weird comparison however I reckon it is closer to the truth.

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Urggh the 2010 Chevrolet Colorado

Published by The Stig on February 14th, 2011 - in News

Right I know that Americans are well known for extremely average designs however the Chevy Colorado is special in its own ugly way.

Yes it looks like it is some sort of 1970′s reject come to life in 2010…

Who likes this car??

Well General Motors of course and that is why they are pushing ti to the hill. I think they should just push it off a hill and hope it dissappears.

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