Accelerate Mpls

Episode 20 starts by introducing this weeks guest, the one and only Jeff Glucker joining us from The Hooniverse.  Jeff kicked us off by telling us a little about himself and how The Hooniverse came to be.  I had nothing in the garage this week but Jeff has a Buick Enclave and we discuss that.  We then move along to the major news of the week segment.  This week included-

• Chrysler Starts Production of New-Age V6
• Ford Motor Co. is bringing wondrous tales along with trucks to little-used theaters in rural Argentina
• Corvette Central: Revamped C7, radical mid-engined C8 in GM’s plans
• GM Temporarily Restarts Saturn, Hummer Production

We then proceed to the clip of the week segment.  This week we featured a Tennessee Man who attempts rock slide ramp, fails

We continued with our newer section called tweetmeme.  This week we focused on Ray Wert vs. Jason Calacanis.

Next came our main topics.  This week the topics included the most recent Toyota Prius issues and the performance specs of the upcoming McLaren MP4-12C.

Last but certainly not least, we discuss the past week on both of our respective blogs, AutoBird Blog and AccelerateMpls.  The week in review included- Cop Car Wars and my 2010 Chevrolet Traverse review, along with the post on Colin’s blog about the Truth In Advertising.

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The first weekend of the month has come and gone and that means Cars & Café.  An opportunity for car guys to come, drool and gawk at each others toys.  The weather was unseasonably warm for November, reaching a high of 57 degrees.  The sun was shining, the people were smiling, and all was well with the world.  Per the name Cars & Café, the cars where there as was the coffee and doughnuts.

Spyker C8 Spyder

Spyker Logo

This month was much nicer weather then October which meant the crowd was about double and the amount of cars were too.  Many notable appearance were made such as the gorgeous Spyker C8 Spyder all the way to the normal Honda S2000.  EuroCars even brought out a ultra rare Noble M400 they currently have for sale.  Kevin Tan, owner of Imola Motorsports, brought out his Acura NSX which is tastefully modified.  Not one, but two, Buick Grand National’s were in attendance. One had aftermarket wheels while the other was quite stock.  Both were gorgeous sights to see in person.  Also notable was the old school Porsche that was absolutely gorgeous.  I will note, my buddy who has the Honda S2000 that we brought to October’s Cars & Café, and our 300ZX, were both sadly already put into storage due to the early cold snap we had.  We both decided to error on the safe side and we were sad we did.

Noble M400

Buick Grand National

This month the club house was open to stroll through.  Spacious and luxurious, the clubhouse is a very nice  place  to hang out while grabbing a cup of coffee and a doughnut.  Auto Motorplex is currently nearing completion on another new building that was framed up in October.  They were also obviously prepping to develop more land for more buildings towards the edge of the property.  Until next April 3, 2010 (but who’s counting) when Cars & Café starts another season, we will all unfortunately just have to get out our trickle chargers and car covers, while we go into storage for the winter.