Users upset over YouTube–Google linking, and is Google showing greater bias in results?

12.01.2011/12.29

I found out a day after many netizens: Google is now forcing all YouTube account holders to merge their accounts with their Google ones. As part of my de-Googling, I won’t be following suit. Instead, I plan to stay logged out of YouTube: it makes very little difference to me. So I won’t […]

Slowly but surely, Autocade gets to 1,250 models

07.01.2011/10.34

Autocade hit 1,250 models today, with a car that’s slightly unusual to non-antipodean eyes: Ford LTD (FE). 1984–8 (prod. unknown). 4-door sedan. F/R, 4089 cm³ (6 cyl. OHV). First LTD series with no V8s, with EFI six as standard, delivering 120 kW. Alloy head as with Falcon; electronic engine management, called EEC IV, delivering more […]

We like links, but does Google?

/05.17

For the majority of the years that we’ve been on the web (coming up to 20 years), we’ve maintained a links’ directory. It was disappointing, sometimes, to note that those whom we exchanged links with at the dawn of the web no longer link back. We’ve kept our outward links largely the way they were, […]

MG taps into BMC’s small-car heritage to market the 3

02.01.2011/11.08

SAIC is doing a great job in tapping to the heritage of MG and the companies that have gone before. Hop over to the SAIC–MG site and you’ll see this image to tie in to the launch of the B-class MG 3 hatchback: The imagery tells a good deal of the story already: the […]

Johnny Foreigner might be better at running a car company in Shanghai

12.12.2010/00.26

As I made links for the last post, I noticed there were a lot of comments on AROnline about the replacement for the Roewe 750, the Chinese car that is based on the old Rover 75. The replacement will be on the Opel Insignia platform, owned by GM. It’s been followed by a lot […]

Roy Axe gives a sincere look at his career

11.12.2010/23.11

Keith Adams is well known to many motorheads out there. We probably encountered him initially at his excellent AROnline, formerly The Unofﬁcial Austin–Rover Resource. More recently, some of us have got to know Keith as a writer for Octane, where his well researched articles remind me of some of the best motoring journalists’ work. They […]

Putting a full site feed on a Facebook fan page is not a good idea

29.11.2010/11.54

Even though more young women are spending time on Facebook at the exclusion of other sites, last night I decided to stop connecting the Lucire RSS feed in to its Facebook fan page. We began the fan page very late, having relied on using a Facebook group. And even then, these were promoted half-heartedly. […]

Retro moment: the ﬁrst American Ford Granada

28.11.2010/09.31

Above: The US Ford Granada in a contemporary advertisement, as posted at americangranada.com. Not the European car, but the American one of the same name: the Ford Granada was marketed as a US alternative to a Mercedes-Benz. Not as overstyled as, say, the Ford Maverick, this was an extremely heavy car, and Ford’s marketing […]

Stutterheim marks the Swedish mood

21.11.2010/09.14

Sent to me by Stefan Engeseth, Stutterheim Raincoats’ website conveys a very Swedish feel, touching on one of the emotions we don’t always associate with Sweden: melancholy during the winter. The copy on the site even says, ‘Let’s embrace Swedish melancholy.’ With emotive photographs and a very Swedish soundtrack, it helps create an […]

An ideal surﬁng camera, and why we love the Saab 9-4X more

20.11.2010/00.30

My friend Gareth Rowson is now review editor for WideWorldMag.com (alongside his design practice). Here is his test of the waterproof Oregon Scientiﬁc ATC9K Action Camera, ﬁlmed while surﬁng at Vazon in Guernsey. I thought this was very nicely shot. Less well shot, but signiﬁcant, is the ofﬁcial video from Saab USA about its […]