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Upcoming: #carchat 36; November 11 @ 8PM EST

From Banovsky, Featured Contributor
Posted on November 11, 2009

Filed under This week, Chrysler, Discussion, carchat, Volvo, Local Motors, Twitter, vLane

This week: the Local Motors Rally Fighter, true open-source design, and the new Volvo S60.

If you'd like to participate, check out the #carchat How-To. Anyone can join us at 8 PM EST November 11, but you'll need a Twitter account to ask questions.

However, if you'd like to follow things live, go here at 8 PM EST.

And if you'd like to suggest topics and questions for the discussion, please leave a comment below, tag articles on Delicious.com with "carchat," or email me at michael [at] banovsky.com.

Topics:

• Discussion: Local Motors Rally Fighter
• Discussion: What's true open-source design?
• Discussion: The new Volvo S60…How should Volvo sell it?

So click through and read a few links, and see some photos related to the discussion.

Quote of the week:

"My name is Ram, and my tank is full" — Ram trucks new hyperbolic ads, via jalopnik.com

Video of the week:

Discussion: Local Motors Rally Fighter

Required reading:

• "Local Motors Rally Fighter concept overview" from orange.co.uk
• "Rally Fighter in the flesh" from Motor Trend
• "SEMA 2009: Rally Fighter touches down" from green.autoblog.com

Discussion: True open-source car design

Required reading:

• "Dear Detroit" from theglobeandmail.com
• "An Open Source Car Company" from good.is
• "theoscarproject" from theoscarproject.org

Discussion: The new Volvo S60…

Required reading:

• "New Volvo S60" from businesscar.co.uk
• "Volvo cars look out for pedestrians" from metronews.ca
• "Geely could be good for Volvo" from calgaryherald.com

How to follow a discussion on Twitter

Three easy steps:

• Sign up for Twitter
• Load up #carchat in a new tab in your web browser.
• Contribute to the discussion on Tweet Grid, or, on your Twitter homepage, use the box (and 140 characters) to say something pertinent to the discussion. Reply directly to someone by putting an "@" in front of their Twitter name. Be sure to add "#carchat" to whatever you say during the discussion, so that others following along can read what you've written — or questions you may have asked.

Or, just have this window open and watch this widget…be warned, though, it won't update in realtime.

Banovsky is a featured contributor for vLane.