The attached video explains it all, so we’ll keep this simple. It seems Michael Bay directly cribbed scenes from his 2005 movie, The Island, for 2011′s Transformers: Dark of the Moon, which is gobbling up people’s disposable income this weekend. Extreme credit goes to the YouTube user who recognized Bay’s clever use of CGI and [...]
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Video: YouTube uploader catches Michael Bay sampling himself for Transformers 3
Posted: July 11, 2011 in Auto News0
Video: China opens 26-mile-long road bridge over water, claims world record
Posted: July 5, 2011 in Auto NewsChina has just opened up a new roadway that stretches for a distance of 26.4 miles. Not impressed? That’s 26.4 miles over water. It’s called the Jiaozhou Bay Bridge, and stretches for a span longer than a marathon. The bridge took four years to build, opened on June 30 and was then recognized by Guinness [...]
Bowler is not a well-known automaker, and with good reason. Its vehicles, based on Land Rover mechanicals, aren’t street legal. They’re rally-raid off-road racing machines; Defenders with an attitude. But Bowler has big plans, ushered in by new ownership and management. The company was recently bought up by CPP – the same Coventry-based coachbuilder that [...]
Fisker Karma may have been driven for “a couple of laps” around the Formula One Monaco Grand Prix by Prince Albert of Monaco in late May, but that doesn’t mean that it’s going to hit dealerships in the U.S. anytime soon. In fact, word is the promised delivery date of the Karma plug-in has been [...]
General Motors is adding a photovoltaic array to the roof of its Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant. The facility’s new solar panels will help offset the energy consumed when producing Chevy Volts. GM has partnered with DTE Energy on the planned 516-kilowatt installation, which will cover 264,000 square feet on six acres of land. In addition to [...]
