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Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Wile E. Coyote Tunnels And Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto!


Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Wile E. Coyote Tunnels And Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto!

It’s a busy week and we love it! Plenty of live racing to watch and go see, the weather is finally useful, and we three are running around providing as much coverage as we can for you! We get lots of information throughout the week, but not everything is worthy of a story. That’s ok, we take the throwaway scraps and mash them together in a roasted pile we call Scrapple! Check out this week’s mashup:

1. Hey, WALL-E, don’t forget your tip!

Domino's DRU

Fun fact: one of my earliest jobs was at a Domino’s Pizza. And the best story I have from there is having to be sent home after having a burnout contest in the parking lot with another driver. But those days may have passed, especially in Australia, where Domino’s has taken a military training drone and repurposed it into an autonomous pizza delivery vehicle.

2. BART Twitter operator has decided to say “hell with it…” and goes into full-honesty mode…

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Blunt-force trauma honesty can be fun, but when you are the mouthpiece for an agency as big as BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit), you have to be political. Or not, in the case of one employee who finally broke down and started giving out perfectly honest answers to frustrated BART users. Check out Gizmodo’s story for the story and more tweets.

3. Damn you, Wile E!

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Courtesy: Jalopnik

…That’s freaking epic.

4. “Car 42, you’ve been in pursuit for two hours. Another five minutes and you’ll be in Arizona.”

CR Laguna

Warner Bros. studios have acquired the rights of the Cannonball Run franchise and rumors are flying that Etan Cohen is going to write and direct the reboot of the movie. Cohen, whose resume includes “Get Hard”, “Tropic Thunder” and “Idiocracy”, will have big shoes to fill. We’re all for another car movie, and hopefully he captures the same slap-stick comedy routine that made the original so famous. Hey, I volunteer to drive the Chevelle this time – call me!

5. The investors are like sharks. They smell blood in the water.

VW train

 

If you thought that masses of Volkswagen owners who were pissed about the whole “Clean Diesel” thing were pissed off at the company, just wait until you see how angry the investors are. A group of investors are going after Volkswagen in a …get ready for this one, folks…$3.61 BILLION lawsuit that claims that VW breached capital markets duty as a result of the emissions scandal. Holy hell. The lawsuit, which was filed in a Lower Saxony, Germany court, has 278 investors from the world over.


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9 thoughts on “Scrapple, Your Guide To The “meh”-Worthy News! This Week: Wile E. Coyote Tunnels And Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto!

  1. Anthony

    Please dont ruin a great movie like Cannonball run with some politically correct pile a crap with the shit movie stars we have today. Please dont do it .

  2. Matt Cramer

    I’d like to see a remake of Cannonball Run that uses the original script – the serious one written for Steve McQueen before they totally redid it for Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLouise. But given the choice of director, sounds like they’re not taking that approach.

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