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Upcoming: #carchat 37; November 18 @ 8PM EST

From Banovsky, Featured Contributor
Posted on November 18, 2009

Filed under This week, Discussion, Social Media, carchat, Twitter

This week: Motor Trend awards, ALMS racing and social media, Mahindra's plans (and truck!), worst car promo ever, toughest street legal car — and toughest test of man and machine.

If you'd like to participate, check out the #carchat How-To. Anyone can join us at 8 PM EST November 18, but you'll need a Twitter account to ask questions.

This week, I'm unable to host #carchat — I'll be deep within a Muskoka bunker with Toyota's future products — so Suzanne Denbow, editor-in-chief of RideLust.com will be filling in as best she can. (I hear she stress eats! — Ed.) Please follow her, as that's where all the topics will be coming from.

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: Motor Trend Car/Truck of the Year winners
• Discussion: Improving the American Le Mans Series coverage through social media; ideas?
• Discussion: Mahindra's proposed dealer network. Are you excited?
• Discussion: Worst car promo ever…anything worse than a chocolate-covered Porsche 911? Oh wait, the Volvo/New Moon promo…
• Discussion: What's the toughest street-legal car in the world?
• Discussion: What's the toughest test of man and machine?

So click through and read a few links, and see our quote and video of the week.

Quote of the week:

"DON'T &#!@ WITH ME LIEBERMAN!" — Robert Farago, via autoblog.com

Video of the week:

Discussion: Motor Trend Car/Truck of the Year winners

Required reading:

• "Ford Fusion named Car of the Year" from detnews.com
• "Billionaire buys Ford stock" from freep.com
• "Why is Ford on such a roll?" from ajc.com

Discussion: Improving the American Le Mans Series coverage through social media; ideas?

Required reading:

• "American Le Mans Series: Paddock Talk" from americanlemans.com
• "NASCAR and Twitter" from insiderracingnews.com
• "Just admit it: Racing makes boring TV" from journalstandard.com

Discussion: Mahindra's proposed dealer network. Are you excited?

Required reading:

• "Mahindra's Proposed Dealer Network" from autoblog.com

Discussion: Worst car promo ever…anything worse than a chocolate-covered Porsche 911? Oh wait, the Volvo/New Moon promo…

Required reading:

• "Chocolate-covered Porsche" from autoblog.com
• "Volvo: New Moon" from youtube.com

Discussion: What's the toughest street-legal car in the world?

Required reading:

• "Dakar-bound Subaru Forester" from autoblog.com
• "Abu Dhabi Nissan GT-R police car" from jalopnik.com
• "Severe test for VW's 'bake'" from wheels24.co.za

Discussion: What's the toughest test of man and machine?

Required reading:

• "Follow @missmotormouth during Baja!" from twitter.com and spotadventures.com
• "Renault 12 drivers making crazy trip" from jalopnik.com
• "Dakar" from dakar.com
• "Baja: 1000" from wikipedia.org

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.