Yeah, we’re a little bit late serving up your rehashed news leftovers, but if they held out this long, what’s another day, really? Just dash on some of the spicy, roast lightly, and you’ll barely know that it’s been sitting around for a little bit! Here is last week’s Scrapple…eat up! You don’t want it to get cold!
1. Here’s some cash, now go away.
Johan de Nysschen’s march of Cadillac progress is moving right along, and at the forefront of the movement is “Project Pinnacle”, a scheme that basically encourages dealerships to hit sales targets to get perks for customers, like concierge pickup and drop-off, greeter counter, and more perks in order to make customers feel like they are someone truly important. That hasn’t sat well with dealerships who might move a handful of Caddys a year, who can’t afford to fluff up the storefront to move more Escalades. Leave it to Johan, then, to find the ultimate solution: depending on the size of the dealership in question, Cadillac would buy out the franchise to make dealerships that don’t want to participate in Project Pinnacle go away, to the tune of $100,000 to $180,000. Four hundred dealerships are currently in the crosshairs, each having sold less than fifty Cadillacs last year. Care to guess how the dealers are taking this news?
2. Kaboom, baby!
Courtesy: KIRO-TV 7, Seattle
That is some of what’s left of a new Mustang rental car. Some. The rest of the disintegrated and demolished Mustang scattered all over a popular Seattle bike trail. And yet, the driver walked away, perfectly uninjured, even though the car is torn in half and is just about unrecognizable. It’s believed that the driver of the car…a rental car, at that!…hit a pole doing over 90 miles an hour in a 35 mile an hour zone. Hope he got the walk-away insurance! Check out KIRO 7’s story on the incident HERE!
3. Sounds (pipe) dreamy…
Remember the Saleen S7? This absolute monster of a supercar was built between 2000-06, ran a very worked-over version of the 351 Windsor, and in ultimate Twin Turbo form, shoved 750 horsepower through the tires on the way to ridiculous speeds. The S7 was Saleen’s high-water mark. Sadly, time hasn’t been too kind to the name since, but if you believe hype, the S7 is coming back, with 1,000 horsepower.
Call us calloused, but we will believe it when we see more than one of it.
4. Premature Evacuation.
Maybe you should wait until the crew of the ferry tell you that it’s safe to drive off next time? The owner of this Lada had somewhere they wanted to be in a freaking hurry…so much so that they tried to jump off of the loading ramp and onto the dock. Instead car and driver went plunging into the Black Sea. The driver was rescued, and so was the car…several hours later, after workers brought the car to the surface. Here’s hoping that the driver was brought on shore and not onto the ferry, where passengers had to wait several hours while the car was being fished out.
5. Oh…THAT five-oh…
Is the new Ford GT fast? Of course it is. Even the mules that are being flogged to within an inch of their lives can still rock. Unfortunately for a group of Ford testers, they forgot that public roads aren’t the best place to test out high-altitude high-speed runs. According to the Vail Daily, the Eagle County Sherriff’s office, the Avon Police Department and the Colorado State Patrol all joined up to pull over a trio of Ford GT test mules that were caught doing 101 in a 50 MPH zone. That’s twenty over in Colorado, which means that the drivers will have to make a court appearance. We’re just guessing, but we doubt that accounting will allow those fines to be expensed for the trip.
