Got your holiday shopping over with? If so here are a few automotive items to tide you over until Monday:
How about a purpose-built police car? No, I'm not talking about some severe-service vehicle coming from the military-oriented Oshkosh skunkworks, but rather a police car sedan that's not based on any existing car platform.
Or this story on personalities and cars?
"The study confirmed with some rigor what many people have already felt -- that cars seem to have consistent personality traits associated with them, and that this is similar to the way people perceive facial expressions," said Dennis Slice, an associate professor in Florida State's Department of Scientific Computing. "The most unique aspect of the study was that we were able to quantitatively link the perception of cars to aspects of their physical structure in a way that allows us to generate a car that would project, say, aggression, anger or masculinity or the opposite traits."
More after the jump.
frank908 says:
08:26 AM, 12/15/08
Law enforcement may not have a choice but to buy this police car the way things are going.