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Hey! It's got wheels, and therefore I'm not compromising my standards! Who knew I could stretch an "Anything cool with wheels" philosophy so far and wide?
You'll notice the interesting tanker in the lower left corner, must have been detached from a semi truck?
from the LIFE archives.
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on the far right is a street sweepers push cart, at the far end of that building is the streetcar. On the left is a car with a grill I don't recognize at all! via:
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1931 Schienenzeppelin
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As those watching took in the excitement of hearing and seeing a Top Fuel dragster in person, Dr. Doug Brittsan, of Brittsan CPT, measured the movement of the earth with a mobile seismograph.
Once the dragster had been shut off, Dr. Brittsan got to work evaluating the data. End results? The movement of the earth created by the Snap-on Tools Top Fuel dragster was equivalent to an astounding 3.9 on the Richter scale.
http://www.competitionplus.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3448&Itemid=6
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"California Air Resources Board and who have strong influence over Arnold and the Democrats in the Legislature. They want to make it a crime to have low air pressure in your tires. They use a “scientist” with a mail-order degree to certify the legitimacy of their slanted research. They pursue a unilateral, California-only approach to global warming that will cripple our economy unless the rest of the world takes a similar approach."
http://www.signonsandiego.com/weblogs/americas-finest/2010/feb/04/crusade-against-free-parking-mania-keeps-spreading/last incredibly unreal concept from the idiots at CARB (Calif Air Resource Board) was to make it illegal to have black roofs on cars because it absorbs solar heat, makes cars warmer inside, and cuases people to run their AC more, increasing the load on a cars engine, and then decreasing the engines efficiency. Except that it really doesn't have much effect to run your AC, these aren't 1963 air conditioning units.
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You wouldn't ride a race horse to the Kentucky Derby, would you?
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According to law enforcement agencies, the California Vehicle Code doesn’t specifically say that lane-splitting is illegal. That doesn’t mean a motorcyclist might not get ticketed for it, though.
Motorcyclists could still be cited for unsafe driving and it’s up to the discretion of the ticketing officer and the court to determine what’s safe.
The California Highway Patrol’s Web site says lane splitting “is permissible but must be done in a safe and prudent manner,” while the DMV’s Motorcycle Handbook warns that lane sharing is dangerous.
San Diego police Lt. Tim Saelens, who works in the traffic division, said motorcyclists who split lanes are sometimes cited under three sections of the state Vehicle Code: Section 22350, the basic speed law; Section 21658, which governs lane changes; and Section 21755, that allows passing on the right only under safe conditions.
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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/feb/19/sign-of-trouble/ via a tip from Zina at
http://piratemonkeycult.wordpress.com/2010/02/19/molesters-and-whatnots/
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Hyundai Motor India Ltd (HMIL), the second largest car manufacturer and the largest passenger car exporter in India, signed MOU with Corporation Bank for financing the purchase of the cars manufactured by HMIL. The bank’s general manager M P Kunju and HMIL senior vice president (Marketing and Sales) Arvind Saxena signed the MOU. Under the MOU, Corporation Bank, a major public sector bank today, will be financing prospective constituents to acquire Hyundai cars at a rate of interest of 10.25% for 3 years and concessional processing charges (Rs. 1,000/- flat). The bank will be financing these cars under its ‘Corp Mobi’ scheme that offers attractive interest rates. All branches of the bank from across the country will be covered under this tie-up arrangement. HMIL also achieved yet another key milestone in its decade old journey in India by clocking the fastest three lakh i10 sales since its launch on 31st October, 2007.
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The domestic sales of Hyundai, India’s second largest carmaker, down but exports. It registered domestic passenger car sales at 24, 754 units during March compared with 29, 401 units in the corresponding month of 2008. The figure shows 15.81 per cent sales fall. The company’s exports rose by 21.63 per cent to 21,406 units as against 17,600 units during the same period of the previous year. The company's cumulative sales (including exports) during March were down by 1.79 per cent at 46,160 units as compared to 47,001 units in the same month a year ago. Hyundai. sold 41,802 units of hatchbacks Santro, Getz, i10 and i20, 4,285 units of Accent and Verna.
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Hyundai’s compact car Santro will take place of Mumbai’s taxis. Now passengers will enjoy Santro with lots of interior space. The state government decided to phase out about 7,500 ageing cabs. Hyundai shipped 30 Santro cars to the Mumbai taxi union. The number will be increased to 1,250 by the year-end. According to transport department order, taxis that are over 25 years old will have to be phased out, which immediately takes out 7,500 cabs.
Hyundai is offering the Santro cab at a discounted price of Rs.242, 500 for the non-air conditioned variant, while the same model costs over Rs.270, 000 ex-showroom in Mumbai. The company said the Santro cab would feature the black-and-yellow colour scheme required for taxis. The company said the Santro cab would feature the black-and-yellow colour scheme required for taxis.
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Hyundai Motor India registered car export growth of 63% at 2.35,345 units compared with 1,44,440 units in the year-ago period. It is the highest growth in the car industry. According to the figures released by the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), carmakers in India have been able to expand their overseas presence with exports from the country recorded whopping 57.04 per cent growth in the last fiscal.
passenger car exports from India touched 3,31,539 units in FY09 as against 2,11,112 units in the previous financial year. Domestic market leader Maruti Suzuki India was a distant second, registering 32.58 per cent growth in overseas sales at 68,834 units in 2008-09 as against 51,916 units in the previous fiscal. Overall vehicle exports from India grew by 23.60 per cent at 15,30,660 units in the last financial year, while the same stood at 12,38,333 unit s in the previous fiscal, SIAM said.
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Hyundai Motor India Ltd (HMIL) missed its sales target for 2008-09 by over 23 per cent due to global slowdown. It managed to sell only 2.44 lakh units till the end of March, 2009 compared to the set target of 3.18 lakh units. Moreover, recession forced the company to reduce the target figure to 2.75 lakh cars but that was also out of range of sales. This time there was a miss of 11.2 per cent.
Arvind Saxena, senior vice president (marketing and sales), HMIL, clarify that there were some sign of recovery in the market but a complete revival was needed. However, enquiries were good enough but the conversion rate was low. He told that in these situations it is hard to convince a customer to buy a new car.
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yundai Motors India Ltd (HMIL) has inked a new deal with its car brand ambassador Shah Rukh Khan. According to this new deal, Shah Rukh Khan will travel in Hyundai vehicles for the whole of IPL season. Alan Ross, MD, Hyundai Motor, South Africa, handed over the car keys to the Bollywood superstar and owner of the IPL team Kolkata Knight Riders Shah Rukh Khan in a function held in Cape Town. Shah Rukh would be provided the facility to offer their car use for his guests. In CY 2008, Hyundai exported around 10,000 units of Santro and the Hyundai i10 to South Africa. The Hyundai i10 and the Santro are also the best selling models in the small car segment in South African market.
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Hyundai Motors India Limited (HMIL) has planned to shift part of Hyundai i20 production to Europe due to volatility of the rupee, poor power availability, inadequate export incentive and labour problem. However, the company is to set one more production base in the continent. In November 2008, the company sent a consignment of 2,820 units to the European market. Around 17,000 made in India Hyundai i20 cars were exported to Europe in the first quarter of the current year. It may be recalled that the company claimed to produce i20 for the European market, would be met through production facility at the Sriperumpudur. But now due to several reasons, the company wants to move out.
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India's largest car exporter and second largest car manufacturer Hyundai India has registered a high growth in the month of April this year compare to same period of last year. According to reports the company the domestic sales growed by a margin of 3.5% and at the same time the Exports of the company increased by 19.6%. Overall theHyundai sales increased by 10.9%. Company sold 44371 units in the month of April compare to 40000 units in the same period of last year.
According to Arvind Saxena, Sr. Vice President - Marketing and Sales, HMIL ,"As compared to last year we saw a modest growth in April, 2009. However, we still feel that the market is far from a complete turnaround and it will be a while before we see healthy double digit growth. We will however continue to offer our customers innovative schemes and products to offset the effects of the slowdown".
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India's largest car exporter and second largest car manufacturer Hyundai Motors is facing a tough task as its employees of Sriperumbudur unit has gone on an indefinite fast to protest the absence of management representatives for a conciliatory meeting. According to news reports the labors are on strike since April 20 and they are demanding the solution of certain of certain labor related issues. As the HMIL Corporate Communication Head Rajiv Mitra said the company is monitoring the situation closely and everything is under control. He also said that the production at the plant is still 90 percent and the management is trying to resolve the issue
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Daily production at the Chennai plant has been hit by 3-4 per cent by the employees strike. This was confirmed by the country's second-largest car maker Hyundai Motor India. Meanwhile, the company expected to end the strike soon and sort out the issues of employees. However, while talking to the media, company's Vice-President (Marketing and Sales) Arvind Saxena did not disclose the demands of the employees at the plant. He informed that the management was in touch with employees. He accepted that the production was affected marginally.
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Hyundai Motor India Ltd (HMIL), the second largest car manufacturer and the largest passenger car exporter, has signed an Memorandum of Understanding with State Bank of Travancore (SBT), a premier nationalised bank based in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, to assist customers in financing auto loans.
The tie-up was signed in the presence of Sri Arvind Saxena, Sr. VP, Marketing & Sales, Hyundai Motor India Ltd and Sri A K Jagannathan, Managing Director, State Bank of Travancore. According to the MoU, HMIL will help both the partners to reach out to wider market and make loans convenient and easy to finance. The automobile company also has strategic tie-ups with Syndicate Bank, Bank of India, Punjab National bank, Canara Bank, Bank of Baroda and Corporation Bank.
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Hyundai Motors is considering alternative production site for i20 premium compact to a European country. The company said that labour unrest at Sriperumbudur factory was forcing the company to take the decision. On the other hand, sources said that infrastructure problems, currency fluctuations and low export incentives might be the other reasons to shift the production of i20 as timely delivery schedules is a crucial factor in export markets.
Labour union claimed that production at the company's two plants had been affected badly on account of the strike, while the company declared a marginal impact. Arvind Saxena, V-P at Hyundai Motor India informed that the production is marginally affected, and the company had enough stocks to meet any shortfall. He added that if the situation did not improve, it would be necessary to shift the production.
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Hyundai Motor Company, South Korean auto major, is planning to soar outsourcing components from India for its global operations. At present, the company outsources few percentage from India and now intended to rise it. Hyundai Motor Company Senior Vice-President (Asia & Pacific Division) Young-Kil Chun said that India, the company's second-largest market in the world, has the potential to be a hub for the components industry.
In view of that, Hyundai Motor will rise sourcing from here. He, however, suggested that for India to emerge as a major outsourcing hub for components, it would need to improve and maintain the quality of products. He said that in this connection the country has to maintain consistent quality which is the need of the hour. Hyundai Motor already sources up to 85 per cent of the components locally for the cars it makes in India.
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The stir at Hyundai's Sriperumbudur factory is continuing and both the sides are firm on their stand. Police arrested around 300 factory workers who had gone on a sudden indefinite hunger strike at the Commission of Labour office here protesting absence of management representatives in a conciliatory meeting. Police informed that the workers were protesting here without the prior permission of Labour office. A Sounderrajan, CITU Tamil Nadu president, and many other prominent workers were among the arrested. CPI (M) state secretary N Varadarajan, in a statement, requested the state government to interfere in the matter and find a solution to the issue. Members of the Hyundai Motor India Employees Union, which has been spearheading an indefinite strike at the company's manufacturing unit at Sriperumnbudur since April 20 demanding recognition and a solution to other labour related issues, commenced the fast following the officials' absence on May 4.
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Strike at Hyundai Motor India's Sriperumbudur plant has come to an end on Friday. The strike was called off after both the sides, workers and Hyundai Motor management, agreed on some points. A Sounderrajan, president of Centre for Indian Trade Unions’ Tamil Nadu arm, said the strike is ended. He added that the company assured them not to take any action against workers after they returned to work and will give answers to every demand of workers. And the management agreed that it would not come to any wage revision settlement with the working committee till May 20.
According to Sounderrajan, the chief demand, that the management recognise the employees union, has not been conceded. Commenting on the wage revision, he said the company used to give increments every three years. The previous wage structure ended on March 31 this year, and the new one was to applied on April 1. He denied to comment on the course of action on the wage issue, saying, “We will do something.” The demands include an increase in the minimum wage, which is Rs 8,000, and explanations for dismissing 65 workers and suspending another 34.
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Hyundai Motor India Ltd (HMIL) is planning to introduce another variant of the Santro by year end. It will be followed by three variants namely petrol, LPG and CNG. A company officials said that the Santro has been a very successful car for the company. Excited by the success of the existing variants Hyundai Motor might refresh the car by the year end. In the refreshing process, other than engine there would be some changes in looking and other major things. Meanwhile, it is expected that, however, some changes will be done but the price will not vary much. The Santro is at present available in three variants namely petrol, LPG and CNG- and is priced between Rs 2, 59,900 and Rs 3, 69,059 (ex-showroom, Delhi).
Hyundai exports the car to Columbia, Mexico, Sudan, South Africa and Algeria. Till April, the company has exported 4, 39,541 units. Since its launch in India in September 1998, Hyundai has sold 9, 84,418 units in the domestic market. The Santro and the i10 comprise about 75 per cent of the 22,000-23,000 units that Hyundai Motor sells each month in the domestic market.
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Hyundai Motor India is thinking over to shift the production of i20 from India to Europe. The company spokesman confirmed that in a months time the decision will be taken. It may be recalled that the previous week, there was a strike in the company's Chennai plant following different workers demand. The production of the car was badly hit. In those days, it was learnt that the company would shift the production of i20 from Chennai to Europe.
The car maker also blamed to the poor port infrastructure to support surging exports and no export incentives from the government. HMIL is pondering over making its plant in Czech Republic as an export hub for the model. The other option is to use the new plant being set up in Russia.
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Hyundai Motors India Limited is going to roll out a new face lifted model of its Santro by the end of the year. It is expected that the new model will come with only cosmetic changes. However, the details of the new additions are not disclosed yet but the new car will have the same Santro engine. The company had rolled out its Santro model nearly a decade ago and has constantly launched newer versions of its one of the most successful models. Earlier, it had decided to phase out Santro after the launch of Hyundai i10 but now it intends to bring a newer version for Hyundai Motors customers in India. Hyundai has sold, so far, 984, 418 models in the country since its launch in India in September 1998. Hyundai Motors has also launched i20 model in India and has received a tremendous response to its premium hatchback model.
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Hyundai is preparing to challenge Tata's Nano. UK media reports suggests that the company is mulling to launch ultra low cost car. It is learnt that Hyundai’s Indian engineers are working hard in close association with their Korean partners to produce another compact car.
Uk media reports also claims that this car will be released first in the European Union, and then in India. There are plans to bring out 800cc and 1000cc cars, but the company has not officially confirmed it so far. The company reported to claims that it has the required infrastructure and the facilities to manufacture a compact car in India. Earlier, there was frenzy around the world when the Tata Nano was expected to be launched in 2008. rumours were spread there that an ultra-cheap car could be produced well under $2500. Another announcement for another ultra cheap car came from Bajaj Renault Nissan, which is a competitor to the Tata Nano.
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Hyundai i20 has been awarded by the European New Car Assessment Programme (NCAP) for safety. The car got the maximum possible score and clinched the five star NCAP rating for safety. The India made car was launched in India in December, 2008.
The i20 five-door model scored exceptionally well on all four parameters of the NCAP safety test which assess newly launched cars on four main criteria of safety – adult occupancy, child protection, pedestrian protection and safety assist. The Hyundai i20 has an extensive list of active and passive safety equipment, including six airbags as standard, active head-restraints, front seatbelt pre-tensioners, anti-lock braking system (ABS), Electronic Stability Control, and Electronic Brakeforce Distribution (EBD). The i20 is manufactured at HMIL’s state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Sreeperumbedur in Chennai. The Hyundai i20 is only manufactured in India and exported to the European Union and other countries from India and also sold in the domestic market.
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Hyundai Motor India Limited's (HMIL) new cheap small car is likely to hit Indian roads by 2011. The company officials told that the company is developing the car is to manufactured at Sriperumbudur near Chenni in Tamil Nadu. however, the name and other information of the car is still undercover. The is likely to be positioned below the Santro model.
According to media reports, the car is to be priced at around US$ 3,500. however, the company has not meant to compete with Tata Nano. HMIL managing director, H.S. Lheem, told reporters here that the company was developing a small car in the entry level range and it should hit the market by 2011. He added that the demand for more variants is more and the company is to launch new variants in the mid and small size segment. He said that Punjab and southern states Karnataka and Tamil Nadu wanted LPG variant. Whereas, Delhi, Mumbai and Ahmadabad are voicing for CNG variants. As the first step in that direction the company would be launching the diesel variant of Hyundai i20 in the latter part of this year.
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Hyundai Motors India Limited is learnt to set up a new plant in the industrial state Gujarat. After Tata Motors set up a Nano car manufacturing facility, Hyundai Motors is likely to target the state with new plans. HMIL Managing Director, HS Lheem told that the Gujarat government has approached the company to set up a manufacturing utility in the state.
However, he made it clear that presently the company has no plans but he did't denied the possibility. He was in Vadodara to inaugurate the Aldiam Hyundai Motors dealership in the city which is the 17th dealership in Gujarat taking the total number of dealers in western region to 57. Lheem looked considerably impressed with the support extended by the Gujarat government to the Nano project. The company has recently launched the CNG model Accent Eco. It now braces itself for the upcoming launch of diesel variant of Hyundai i20 by end of this year.
Hey! It's got wheels, and therefore I'm not compromising my standards! Who knew I could stretch an "Anything cool with wheels" philosophy so far and wide?
You'll notice the interesting tanker in the lower left corner, must have been detached from a semi truck?
It looks like a homecrafted wooden slat tank tracks on a double rear axle, but it's such low resolution I can't tell for sure. Via: http://www.owensvalleyhistory.com/el_camino_sierra/page76a.html
on the far right is a street sweepers push cart, at the far end of that building is the streetcar. On the left is a car with a grill I don't recognize at all! via: http://roughingitblog.tumblr.com/page/3
I've never seen a desing like it.. looks cool! from http://community.livejournal.com/dieselpunk/269123.html via: http://my-ear-trumpet.tumblr.com/ 
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1931 Schienenzeppelin
Full write up at: http://phreddy.tumblr.com/post/408535916/schienenzeppelin-frame
that is a pretty sight. Via: http://lowtechblog.blogspot.com/2008/10/once-more-rolling-bones-do-bonneville.html
Via: http://lowtechblog.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-02-02T00%3A47%3A00%2B01%3A00&max-results=15 that looks good.. . looks right. One of the Crazy Cruisers from Geneva Switzerland
