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Lamborghini Updates Huracan With Sign Language Script

Lamborghini announced today it will become the first and only automaker to display its name in sign language on its revised 2017 Huracan. According to the Sant’Agata based manufacturer, customers can order a new Huracan with either the traditional chrome Lamborghini… Read More

Financially Strapped NASA Uses Old Wienermobile for Space Station Training

NASA execs are hoping for an eventual budget increase, but in the meantime, the space agency announced at a press conference today that it has sold the near life-sized Space Station Mockup and Training Facility, or SSMTF (pronounced ssmtf), and astronauts… Read More

California Mandates Sealed Gas Cans With No Filler, Spout or Vent

Claiming that gas cans are a significant source of volatile organic compounds or VOC’s — formerly known as reactive organic gases or ROG’s — the California Air Resources Board — also known as CARB — has passed a new regulation (called… Read More

Lutz Re-enlists in Marine Corps After Campaign to Put Him on $20 Bill Fails

Businessman and former auto executive Bob Lutz has re-enlisted in the Marine Corps following the announcement that anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman will replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, according to our next-door neighbor Marv, who claims to… Read More

Court Strikes Down State’s Boy-Girl-Boy or Girl-Boy-Girl Vehicle Seating Requirement

An appeals court today struck down a state law that prohibits same-sex occupants of a vehicle from sitting next to one another, saying it violates the Constitutional right to free seats. Judge Jubilee Scheindlin, speaking for the three-member panel, said,… Read More

Hazzard County Will Never be the Same!

The Quattropolitan: Fuddled Parksplug Staffers Combine an Audi With a Nash Metropolitan

This is what happens after thimble-headed Parksplug staffers spend two days drinking Fireball and warm Tsingtao’s and then fire up the welding torch: Presenting the Quattropolitan, a hand-built and rather handsome (if we may say so ourselves) mashup of an Audi… Read More

Dodge Teases New Charger Parolee Package

Dodge has confirmed jailhouse rumors that it will offer a Parolee Package for the 2017 Charger.  “We think parolees who have paid their debt to society constitute an untapped automotive market,” said Dodge spokeswoman Bubbles Suggs. “Until now,… Read More

Meet Al Cantara, the Man Behind the Material

You’re undoubtedly aware that Alcantara is a leather-like material used by many automakers to cover seats, steering wheels, dashboards and other interior components.  But chances are, you’ve never heard of Aloysius “Al” Cantara, the material’s developer.  Parksplug recently… Read More