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Last Auto Account – Humpday Link Love In case you hadn’t noticed, it’s Wednesday, which agency it’s time for some midweek miscellanea. Here are a few of the contempo belief that accept beyond our desks that we’d allegedly address added about if we weren’t so overworked/understaffed/just apparent lazy: HybridCars has gotten the jump on all of us by announcement the aboriginal “best ..Last Auto account –

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In case you hadn’t noticed, it’s Wednesday, which agency it’s time for some midweek miscellanea. Here are a few of the contempo belief that accept beyond our desks that we’d allegedly address added about if we weren’t so overworked/understaffed/just apparent lazy:

• HybridCars has gotten the jump on all of us by announcement the aboriginal “best of” account of the season. (Hello, guys? 2008′s still going?) Best “best of” so far: Bob Lutz on Colbert, adage that the Volt amalgam will advertise able-bodied a part of “nice, no-makeup environmentalist” gals. Who says American automakers aren’t in blow with consumers?
• We apperceive how awkward it can be to accept you bought a Nintendo DS just to play Brain Age. Now you can lie and say that you got the DS for Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars–coming in Spring! (We think!)
• Even fashionistas apperceive the accent of stylin’ transportation: Chanel figurehead and all-around appearance astrologer Karl Lagerfeld has bargain his domiciliary agents and confused to a abate Parisian pad, but those three Hummers ain’t traveling anywhere.
• Iranians may be appreciative to apperceive that the Société Anonyme Iranienne de Production Automobile (literally and eerily translated: the Anonymous Iranian Society for Automobile Production) is absolution its aboriginal car with a absolutely Iranian pedigree: the SAIPA Miniator. Iranian gearheads and appearance fanatics may be far beneath enthusiastic.
• Ever capital to apperceive how to about-face a exhausted up Plymouth into a Car of the Future? Well, wish no more. Note: David Lee Roth articulate stylings are involved; advance with caution. [via BB]
• Maserati has provided a video of its GranTurismo S allegedly tricked out with items from the company’s new customization program. Don’t worry, though: it still looks like a Maserati. And as you can acquaint from the soundtrack, Italians still accept capricious aftertaste in abode music. [via CarScoop]
• Toronto is rolling out a new tracking arrangement for streetcars that gives riders absolute data on accession and abandonment times. I’m abiding L.A.’s traveling to barrage a agnate arrangement of its own absolutely soon. Har.

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