#Autoweek

[bisexualmcqueen]

I'm sorry if you already posted this, but this is about the details of the first cars movie, what was the car Pixar used for Lightning McQueen's sounds, bc I cannot for the life of me remember

ONE OF MY FAVORITEST TOPICS!!!!!!!!!!

so lightning, being a 2006 model/cars being in production in the early aughts, is based off of a gen4 NASCAR build. specifically a chevy monte-carlo of the early aughts, as seen in some of his early designwork:

[jogen klubein, 2000]

[bob pauley, 2002] [the art of cars]

some stats:

(from some sketchy assed 2000 website i wont link it but i do have it written down)

i used to swear up and down that there was a special feature that showed a few of the guys from skywalker sound recording one of the g4s (maybe a blue and white dodge??) at skywalker ranch in california (or at the airstrip with the other cars). it may have been an old interview or its on a blu-ray special feature somewhere, but i havent been able to find it. i either dreamt it up or its been lost?? no idea.

but what i have been able to find is some of the stock audio used in Cars. Supposedly this is work done by Ben Burtt at skywalker sound [lucasfilm] in the late 70's??: [link]

For NASCAR purposes, as far as i could tell their engines didnt change drastically from the 70s-2000's, so its not wholly inaccurate to use older clips.

a thing in my notes:

[mixonline. photo dead from link rot]

and now some examples of real-life mcqueens (an excuse to show you cool old stock cars) :

and a few various other references:

(note the flywheel sound we also hear in Cars!)

^video ive only skimmed so far but seems very informative.

and a few canon refs while im here:

[image mine, circa 2020. official 1:18 scale BANDAI replica with certificate of authenticity, approved by jay ward]

[time travel mater] (his carbon fiber cowl induction cover is very funny to me)

SO. to answer the question: its a mix of custom sound design and stock audio. its based in reality heavily, but i believe its also tuned for fiction/per character personality. i forget which interview said that it might be the mixonline one mentioned above or this old autoweek one. he's got something along the lines of partly SB2.2 and an R07. this does not mean pixar recorded specifically these motors, but prooobably something close.

and cars 3 pisses me off because they very clearly did not use any audio off of the g4s, which had a more specific screaming sound to them at high RPMs. COTR actually portrays his exhaust note more accurately than cars 3. Cars 2 is decent also, but the first film is chefs kiss.

i have more various unorganized lmq references but this ask is long enough now and probably doesnt make much sense because i am literally so amped about this topic. please note that this research is partly accurate and partly speculative/opinion. rejoice, mcqueens be upon ye.

[saleintothe90s]

500. The 1984 Olympics Sports Illustrated Preview Issue (July 18, 1984) Part 1.

I'm totally late, but aren't we all having a little bit of Olympic withdrawal? This was a big magazine for me as a kid, big. My mom got it for me at the thrift store in 1994 when I was 10 because at the time I collected old issues of Sports Illustrated for the figure skating articles. This issue was massive, about five hundred pages. Five hundred pages of ads and photos I still remember 30 years later.

Like this Levi's ad! I still remember the lady in her maternity jeans, and how the kids couldn't wear riveted Levi's to school because they'd scratch up the desks.

There were several extended profiles of athletes that were expected to win big in Los Angeles, such as Carl Lewis.

Carl Lewis: mall lover.

Embarrassing baby photos of the athletes were a common occurrence.

I forgot to mention the Renault Fuego when I did that write up on Renault's short lived visit in the States.

I thought the Chrysler Laser was a thing in Canada, and we in the U.S. had the Plymouth Laser. No! We had the Chrysler first for a couple of years and then we had the Plymouth for a few years? That Lee Iacocca made things so confusing. I've mentioned before that I grew up alongside my niece and when we were in high school, she bought a used green Laser, and I was so jealous.

Autoweek went looking for one of the special 1984 Olympic edition GMC Jimmys, but couldn't find one.

I love that its a heartwarming story about how Bill Toomey almost didn't win the 1968 decathlon, and then its just ...screwdrivers at Sears.

I've spent thirty years trying to figure out what album German swimmer Michael Gross has against his stereo. Bap? Rap? I'm gonna eBay image search it. Okay, so it is a German album by Bap.

1984 was definitely the first 'puter Olympics. Not the first internet Olympics like Atlanta or Nagano, but one where computers were definitely advertised. Looks like the closest Sears Business Systems Center to me was in Virginia Beach where a Shake Shack is today.

When I was a kid looking at this ad, I thought that was the real Charlie Chaplin, and he was still alive in 1984 selling IBM PCJr computers with those awful keyboards. Clint from LGR called the space bar a "gooey celery stick".

This was a sweet section about athletes reminiscing about their time during the first Olympics held in LA back in 1932. The hop step and jump is what we would call the triple jump today. The Sports Illustrated vault is absolute garbage now, but you can still read the text from the other athletes profiled. Ellen Preis the Frencer from Austria had a heck of a story:

ELLEN PREIS AUSTRIA FENCING, INDIVIDUAL FOIL

When we arrived in the United States, we met the mayor of New York. I can't remember his name [it was Jimmy Walker], but I remember he made a lot of funny jokes. He took us to Sing Sing, which was both interesting and a great shock. We sat in the electric chair. It felt awful. Afterward we saw criminals on Death Row, and I felt very sorry for them. Then they took us to a laboratory, and we saw 42 jars containing the brains of criminals who had died in the chair. I was very young, and it made a strong impression.

I still haven't forgotten this ad, Fisher. It totally worked.

Part 2 coming soon.

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[wheelsgoroundincircles]

MarCel Roadster

There’s no denying that Foose was a child of the hot rod era. He loves hot rods and roadsters and most of his designs are inspired by them. The problem is that a lot of these cars look like nothing more than real-life Hot Wheels. The first and most obvious thing about this car was the two-tone paint job that included a brown convertible top. The paint was beautiful but it wasn’t enough to sell the public the rest of the car. Foose went over the top with the curves and the shape of the car (via Autoweek).

Obviously, the first and most notable thing with a retro-mod should be the styling. The Merkel Roadster was more over-the-top than the average classic hot rod and it took away from the styling of the car. If anything, this car was more suited as a concept car or a life-sized toy than an actual classic. There’s no denying that Foose had a lot of fun with this one, but for many, it was too much fun.

[sargeantposting]

ARTICLE: Meet America's Next F1 Hope, Logan Sargeant (Autoweek, 2020)

source: matt weaver, autoweek.com published: february 1st, 2020 series: f3, 2020

He doesn’t view himself as anything more than a racer trying to win races and championships, but Logan Sargeant inherently represents more than himself, as he is also the current best chance the United States has to return an American full time to the Formula 1 grid.

For American racing enthusiasts, the Sargeant name might sound familiar, as the 19-year-old is the younger brother of former NASCAR prospect Dalton Sargeant, who spent several seasons in the ARCA and Truck Series system.

Meanwhile, the youngest racing Sargeant has done nothing but win since moving to Switzerland as a 12-year-old to chase a career at the highest level of international motorsports. Sargeant won the Karting Federation Junior championship in 2015, becoming the first American to win an FIA karting championship since 1978, when Lake Speed earned the honors.

He has victories in the F4 British Championship and Formula Renault.

Sargeant suffered his first significant career setback in 2019, finishing 19th in the FIA Formula 3 European Championship with Carlin, with just one podium, albeit in the nonpoints prestigious Macau Grand Prix.

There were valid reasons for the adversity, of course, as 2019 was the first season with a new chassis and rules package that allowed for adjustable downforce during practice but one fixed amount during a race.

With three first-year Formula 3 drivers on its roster, Carlin struggled to develop the chassis, and each of them finished outside of the top 15 in the standings.

It was uncharacteristic of Sargeant, who had adapted to everything he had driven up to that point, which makes 2020 all the more interesting as it comes with a return tour of Formula 3, albeit with a change to the championship-winning Prema Racing Team organization.

If Sargeant simply repeats what the three Prema drivers accomplished last year, sweeping the championship’s podium, an American will likely be one step below the highest level of international motorsports in 2021 for the first time since Alexander Rossi made five Formula 1 starts with Marussia.

Get to know Sargeant—an avid fisherman who enjoys returning to his Boca Raton, Florida, home as much as he is able—in this Autoweek exclusive below.

Autoweek: Let's start on the performance side—what went wrong in 2019?

Logan Sargeant: In hindsight, Carlin has had a lot of success over the years, but we really struggled with the new car. We had three rookies on the same team, inexperienced drivers who couldn't lead us in the right direction. A tenth or two makes such a difference. I understand the situation. I'm not saying I wasn't responsible to a degree either. I wasn't satisfied with myself. I have an obligation to help develop the car as much as possible, and we just couldn't figure it out for most of the year.

AW: Do you view last year as a setback or are you still on schedule?

LS: To be perfectly honest with you, I actually feel like we're still ahead of schedule. I just turned 19. We did really well in Formula Renault and made the jump to Formula 3 and now I'm in a really good spot to be with the team (Prema) that won the championship last year.

AW: What's it like to be an American in the F1 ladder system?

LS: I moved to Switzerland when I was 12 and went to a school for Americans so I got used to everything from an early age. Then I moved to London. When you move at such an early age, it's shocking how different everything is, but it's easier to adjust to, as well. I try to go home at least twice a year for a couple of weeks, so that helps. As for the racing side, there is so much quality racing back home between NASCAR, IndyCar and IMSA, and that's the only reason there aren't more of us trying. There is a really good racing culture in the States, so that's the only reason we don't see it more often.

AW: I understand you have a dog back home—how tough is it to have to leave a beloved pet when you return to London? The same thing with friends and family?

LS: It's really tough, especially when you're really attached to a pet, like a dog or cat. She used to live with us in Switzerland, but we had to take her back home because she was getting older. It's the same with your friends, right? I have friends in Europe, but they're all my racing friends. They're really nice to have, but you miss your friends you have back home. It's part of the sacrifice you make to do this.

AW: On that note, you've been in Europe now for almost a decade—does it feel like home when you come back from Florida?

LS: Oh, no. Florida is home. I really enjoy it in London. I came early so I've adjusted, but you only have one home.

AW: Do you allow yourself to entertain racing in the States or do you commit everything to what you're doing now?

LS: I'm fully committed to Formula 1, but I wouldn't have a problem if I ended up with the opportunity to race in IndyCar someday. That would be really exciting. I really enjoy sports car racing, too. It would be really cool to hop into a LMP2 or something one day. I want to race and I'll race anything.

AW: How much American racing are you able to keep up with?

LS: I watch as much racing as I can, period. It's tougher to watch certain races here because of the time difference, but I watch nothing but racing. That's the sport I'm in so I'm studying everything.

AW: Is this a championship-or-bust season for you?

LS: I'd say, to be honest, that I'm aiming for the championship. The goal is to win races and compete for the championship. Last year was tough because I'm so used to being at the front of the team. I'm aware of what Prema did last year. That's what I hope to accomplish, too.

[vetteldixon]

Scott Dixon's certainly up there talent-wise with any of them. If anything is going to hold him back it's his personality. The British Racing Drivers Club wanted to give him the Bruce McLaren Award, which they give every year to the young driver who best represents what Bruce was about. He didn't even return their phone calls, so they gave it to Mark Webber instead...It's not arrogance, it's shyness. He grew up in a very small community. He doesn't like the limelight and it holds him back.

— Indy Lights president Roger Bailey to AutoWeek, August 2001

[optimabatteries]

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[goalhofer]

September 12, 1988 cover of Autoweek.

[vaspider]

When I was young, my dad took me with him on the weekends when he would drive around the East Coast, photographing the classic cars that he would then write about for the final page feature called "Escape Road" in... I think it was in Autoweek. Anyway. So we'd drive to East Nippledink, NJ, to see Bob Manperson's 1952 Pertwee Lunger that he rescued from where some old lady had left it sitting under a cherry tree for 30 years and lovingly restored over a dozen years by hammering out all the dents from the falling cherries using only the Pertwee-approved dent hammers or whatever, and we'd eat sandwiches from the cooler for lunch and then we'd stop for McD's or whatever on the way home.

And I must have been like... 10 or 11... the day that we were driving to another boring old car with another boring car guy, and I looked out the window and saw a guy really struggling to push the mower up the hill on his huge lawn, and I suddenly realized that this guy had an entire life that I'd never know anything about. It was just out there, happening, right alongside mine.

And like, obviously, right? But all of a sudden, I Knew That in a way that I hadn't just a second before. I remember asking my dad if it was odd to think about that, the way that everybody has a whole life and their own thoughts that you can't know, and he got a funny look on his face and said, "No, I think that's very thoughtful and good."

My coworker Astrid and I were chatting yesterday. I mentioned that I have this specific moment that I’ve always felt like was my transition from child to sapient being where I suddenly looked at myself and had the epiphany that my appearance mattered to others perception of me and I conceptualized myself as a person. It was really wild and being a His Dark Materials fan I’ve always been like, yeah, that’s when I got Dust and my daemon settled.

Astrid was fascinated and told me she hadn’t had that exactly but she did remember being on this one road trip through Kansas and she’d looked up at the clouds and suddenly, all at once, she could perceive them as being three dimensional. Even though conceptually she’d always known they had depth she could now perceive the shape.

She told me this in the slightly embarassed way that said she didn’t think this sounded impressive and she wasn’t expecting me to sit bolt upright and exclaim, “Me too! I had that too! It blew my mind!”

It wasn’t that I hadn’t seen clouds before but clouds were just up there in the sky, taken for granted and generally they just made flat shapes. But to realize the full scope and depth of clouds, to shift from thinking about them as a faraway background element of nature to seeing them as huge majestic three dimensional things had been awe inspiring.

“Right?! I just spent the whole rest of the drive overwhelmed with the beauty of the world, staring at the clouds!”

“When I try to tell people how profound it was they just act like I was high but it was like, this massive shift in how I saw the world right around adolescence.”

Slightly curious if anyone else had experiences like these as they stepped toward adulthood.

[atevegter]

3248 De klassieker

Het is al weer enige tijd geleden dat Autoweek een onderzoekje deed naar welke de meest iconische Volvo aller tijden is. Nou, daar hoef je geen onderzoek voor te doen dacht ik nog, dat is vanzelfsprekend de Volvo 240 in al haar varianten, vanaf de 242 in de jaren zeventig tot aan de 240 Polar in 1993, het laatste jaar waarin deze Volvo geproduceerd werd. Opvolgers van de 240 waren de 740, de 940…

[vehicle-research]

Autoweek article about the 1979 SCORE contest, held at the GM proving grounds. The VRI entered three cars - Viking II, IV and V and drove the 2500 miles from Bellingham to Michigan to participate.

Viking IV won best fuel economy on the GM test track, achieving 88 MPG.

Driving the 2500 miles to the contest, Viking IV used about 24.5 gallons of fuel which cost $18.46 at the diesel price of the time.

[toonceslookout]

toonces on the cover of autoweek magazine, june 21 1993. full article available here

[gpfansnl]

De afgelopen weken kwamen er verhalen naar buiten dat het zou rommelen in de top van Red Bull Racing. Red Bull-teambaas Christian Horner benadrukt tegenover Autoweek dat er tussen hem en adviseur Helmut Marko op werkgebied eigenlijk weinig veranderd is. Het eerste bericht over de mogelijke onrust bij het team kwam van het Braziliaanse El Globo. "Het is tegenwoordig verbazingwekkend hoe een steentje in Brazilië in het water kan vallen en in een golf kan veranderen tegen de tijd dat het Europa bereikt", zo trekt Horner de vergelijking. De teambaas wijst naar het succes van Red Bull in 2023: "Het laat ook zien dat we beide kampioenschappen hebben vastgezet en dat er niet veel is om over te praten, dus het is heel gemakkelijk voor anderen om de situatie op te blazen." De relatie met de tachtigjarige Marko is in zijn ogen dan ook prima. "Helmut en ik hebben een geweldige relatie sinds 1996, toen ik hem voor het eerst ontmoette, en we hebben een zeer sterke werkrelatie en er is niets veranderd", zo legt hij uit. Hij moet dan ook wel gniffelen bij het lezen van sommige verhalen: "[Er zit red.] een zekere mate van humor bij het lezen van sommige verhalen."

[formulatalk]

FE: Alejandro Agag Wins 2023 Autoweek Vanguard Award

On October 9, 2023, Formula E Founder and Chairman Alejandro Agag was honored with the 2023 Autoweek Vanguard Award in the Person category. This award recognizes his vision and leadership in promoting sustainable electric motorsport and advancing electric vehicle technology.

Autoweek's Vanguard Awards aim to applaud individuals and companies that not only think about the present but also the future. They recognize leaders with a forward-looking vision who have achieved significant accomplishments in shaping the future of the automotive industry. Agag was rightfully selected as the winner in the Person category in 2023.

Alejandro Agag also shared his 10-year journey with Formula E. He recalled that many people doubted the project's success, but with the support of some, they managed to exceed expectations.

The story of Formula E began as a simple dream shared between Alejandro Agag and former FIA President Jean Todt, scribbled on a napkin in 2011. The initial goal was to create a competition for electric cars on the streets of the world's most iconic cities, demonstrating the potential of sustainable mobility and paving the way for a better future.

Recently, Formula E released impressive fan and viewership figures. The ABB FIA Formula E World Championship's fan base reached new heights in 2022/23, with a 17% year-on-year increase, totaling 344 million fans, and 225 million viewers tuning in to watch live during Season 9.

[kinetize]

De vernieuwde Alfa Giulia Quadrifoglio is verkrijgbaar. AutoWeek ging ermee op pad. https://www.nu.nl/301514/video/rijimpressie-alfa-romeo-giulia-quadrifoglio.html

[m1autorepair]

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