Steve Parker Motoring / The Car Nut: 'CAR NUT' APPEARANCE TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27TH IN LOS ANGELES!

EXCLUSIVE PHOTO ALBUM! 2009 GUMBALL RALLY 3000

See Steve's exclusive Gumball Rally video from NBC-TV's Whipnotic website (copy and paste): http://www.whipnotic.com/videos/viewvideo-558.html Over 120 gas-guzzling super-exotic sports cars, Hummers, Cadillac Escalade SUVs and an occasional interesting older car roared on May 2, 2009, from a California beach-side parking lot directly onto I-10, the Santa Monica Freeway, also known as the Christopher Columbus Transcontinental Highway, for the start of this year's Gumball Rally. The world's most politically-incorrect automotive street event, the Gumball Rally 3000, left Santa Monica (CA) Pier on Saturday, May 2, 2009 and headed toward its ultimate destination of Miami, FL eight days later. Participants reportedly paid $44,000 per car/team to enter the event. Though the Gumball stresses the skills of its drivers (and their cars) there are only two race track "special section" stops scheduled for the 3,000-mile long event, which will be run on public roads with all entrants subject to all highway rules and regulations. All photos (c) 2009 by www.SteveParker.com

February 24, 2007

'CAR NUT' APPEARANCE TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27TH IN LOS ANGELES!

After engaging a PR guy from General Motors in debate on radio station KPCC, a National Public Radio outlet in Los Angeles, about the environmental impact and the future of cars and trucks (and that interview can be found below in this BLOG, just do a search for "KPCC"), I was contacted by the folks staging an event for Harvard, Stanford and Wharton MBA graduates on the topic of: Where to invest for the coming revolution in alternative fuels. It's happening this coming Tuesday at the Luxe Hotel in Brentwood, where the I-405 and Sunset Boulevard meet. (Photo - Harvard University).

Apart from the fuels topic, I'll also be talking about the effect Los Angeles and its denizens has traditionally had on the worldwide auto industry, and also about the new Bluetec diesels coming from Germany (and approved for California), all the hoopla about ethanol and if it's really the potential savior some say it is, Ford's ZEV engine, hybrids and the new plug-in hybrids coming soon from Toyota and GM, the effect of the new rules NHTSA will be using to test vehicle mileage ... and lots, lots more! Make your reservation to attend ... today! (Photo - More Harvard stuff).