Yesterday I received a comment from Suzanne Vanderhoef about a project that definitely deserves some extra attention.
RIDEMAKERZ™ along with legendary car designer Chip Foose, are auctioning off five MAKERZ Edition Ford Mustangs on Ebay to benefit the Progeria Research Foundation.
These 5 very special cars, approximately 1:18 scale, with custom painted ABS plastic bodies, were [...]
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Posted in 2007, internet, mustang, odd on August 31, 2007 | No Comments »
It’s all over the news the last few days: a 17-year-old - named George Hotz - has unlocked the iPhone. Quite a few people are waiting for George to unleash his unlocking code on the internets, but since AT&T’s and Apple’s legal team are after him it’s not sure that’s going to happen soon.
George did [...]
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I posted this neat quote already back in January pointing to a commercial that was burried somewhere deep down in the Ford website.
“So, you couldn’t find a car you like here in Germany? No, I couldn’t find a speed limit I liked in America!”
The only reason for posting this again today is that I found [...]
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Well it sure ain’t the Ghostbusters this time ;) Mustangblog just had this story up on the 2008 Saleen S302 that was used for the Transformers movie.
“The cars are the stars in DreamWorks’ new hit movie “Transformers,” and the Saleen S281 Extreme is receiving rave reviews as everyone’s favorite bad guy. Appearing in various scenes, [...]
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… just not for me. It works for Red Bull Racing. They started a promotion to raise money for charity on the last F1 Grand Prix.
“Basically the idea was to apply the million pixel page concept to a racing car - and instead of corporate logos real race fans could have their face on a [...]
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Posted in 2007, advertising, mustang, odd on June 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
About a month ago, Estee Lauder and Ford introduced a new fragrance for men, which will simply be called Mustang. The new scent is meant ..
“…to appeal to ‘retrosexuals’ — a guy’s guy, the opposite of a metrosexual. This isn’t a car fragrance. It’s a lifestyle brand. The scent…is characterized as a ‘rugged oriental.’ It [...]
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I agree, this blog didn’t get enough attention of my the last few weeks and months. I’m hoping to become again a bit more active here so here we go again, thanks for sticking around.
I wanted to show you a car that I found last week on Gizmodo, not because it’s good looking nor because [...]
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King of the Blues, the search for the next great undiscovered blues guitar player. Know your roots, be original! Pete Cashmore at Mashable reports on this new contest from GuitarCenter. And guess what the grand prize is?! A 2007 Ford Mustang!
There’s only one problem. Even though I have a little bit of guitar playing [...]
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FordDirect has already sold over 1 million cars over the internet, that was the headline on resultblog (dutch) last week. Looking at the news more in detail it becomes clear that it’s not about 100% online sales, but it’s still remains an interesting phenomenon. I’m pretty sure that back in 2000 when Ford and the [...]
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Posted in 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 2004, 2007, muscle cars, mustang, photography, vintage on January 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Popular Mechanics wrote a great article on the Mustang’s history. The article was initially written in 2004, inspired by the 40th anniversary of the Mustang. I don’t want to copy the whole article on this blog, but like to highlight some of the most remarkable things.
It already started out quite different than I guess car [...]
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