Where do you debut new electric car concepts in America? Not in Detroit at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS), says Kia. Instead, you go to Vegas and showcase them at the Consumer Electronic Show (CES). If anything says that Koreans understand American thinking, this is it. Nobody in Detroit right now really expects [...]
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Kia Skips Detroit, Goes to Vegas Instead
January 10th, 2012 
Aaron Turpen 
Posted in Car Company, Electrics, Featured 
Tags: Consumer Electronic Show, Detroit, electric car, Hello Kitty, Kia, Kia Motors, Koreans, North American International Auto Show 
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Aptera Finally Gives Up
December 8th, 2011 Aaron Turpen I have now been personally responsible for the death of a car company. My journalistic powers of death and destruction have now been verified. I promise to use them wisely and only for things like personal gain and other laudable goals. Lucky for the automotive industry as a whole that I have no inclination towards [...]
Posted in Car Company, Electrics, Featured Tags: Aptera, Aptera Motors, electric car, ElectricVehicle, Paul Wilbur Comments OffAptera Vaguely Announces “2.0″
November 9th, 2011 Aaron Turpen Aptera, whose struggles have become more than legendary in electric car circles, but have actually become a new cliche for “EV that never was”, has apparently hired a web design company to come in and tear up their website. It’s now featuring some lame blocked design with each block set up to be linking to [...]
Posted in Car Company Tags: Aptera, Automotive X Prize, Electric vehicle, Fisker Automotive, Solyndra, United States Department of Energy Comments Off
GM Puts Chevy Plate On WTF Pod Car
October 15th, 2011 Aaron Turpen Government Motors has shown off its version of what future “commuting” will look like in their pea pod concept. Not content with that, the company decided that in order to ramp up the marketing, they needed to re-badge the EN-V Pod Car concept with a Chevrolet bowtie and send out another press release in hopes [...]
Posted in Car Company, Featured Tags: chevrolet, electric car, general motors, government motors, WTF 1 Comment »Ford Leaps Ahead Into.. the Bicycle Market?
September 18th, 2011 Aaron Turpen The world is not as it should be. Things are upside down, backwards, and definitely off-kilter. How do we know this? Is it because the economy is as shaky as a 90-year old on a first date? Or because our president seems to think that giving speeches is all that’s required to get people employment? [...]
How “Success” Gets Defined When You’re Government Motors
July 27th, 2011 Aaron Turpen Apparently, all of those people in Washington D.C. who’ve never had a real job in their lives but have always managed to make a lot of money off of everyone else have a different definition of what “success” means than do the rest of us out here in the real world. If you’re under the [...]
Posted in Bureaucrats Gone Wild, Car Company Tags: Bankruptcy, chevrolet, Chevrolet Cruze, Cruze, general motors, United Auto Workers, United States Comments Off
