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• Video: Puma makes a Formula One car from clothing

  Banovsky on October 12, 2009

  Marketing sure is clever. Years ago, you'd have a pitch man holding up a shirt — maybe with an F1 car in the background — asking you to consider their product. Now, all you need to sell something is 48 seconds on YouTube and a bunch of talented visual stylists — and you get nearly 200,000 views.

  

  Ferrari logos and all…

  Click through the video!

  Read full article | Comments (0) | Filed under News, Video, Ferrari, Advertising, Puma, Formula 1

• Upcoming: #carchat 28; September 16 @ 8PM EST

  Banovsky on September 16, 2009

  This week we're looking at the Frankfurt Motor Show, allegations Renault's F1 team "fixed" a race, and we'll try to reinvent Buick's new ad slogan…

  If you're confused, check out the #carchat How-To. Anyone can join us at 8PM EST September 2, but you'll need a Twitter account to ask questions and participate.

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

  And if you'd like to suggest topics for next week, please tag articles on Delicious.com with "carchat."

  This week:

  • Discussion: The cars of the Frankfurt Motor Show
  • Discussion: Why do car companies only launch products at car shows? (thanks, @aolautos!)
  • Discussion: Reinventing Buick's new slogan (thanks, @joelfeder!)
  • Discussion: The Nelson Piquet Jr, Renault Formula One "crash-gate" (thanks, @sjglynn!)

  So click through and read a few links, see some photos, and check out a video related to tonight's discussion.

  Read full article | Comments (0) | Filed under auto show, Concept, Advice , This week, Discussion, carchat, Formula 1, Renault, Twitter

• Ayrton Senna, 15 years gone

  Derek Kreindler on May 3, 2009

  When I was very young, I had two sports heroes. Joe Carter of the Toronto Blue Jays, and Ayrton Senna. All the kids wanted to be Joe Carter when we played baseball in gym class, but I alone wanted to be Senna when I played with other kids, pushing my little Majorette 1/64 scale McLaren MP4/4 around my room, making the appropriate "vroom-vroom" sounds.

  

  [Photo: Wikimedia.org] I know Formula 1 isn't too popular in North America, so I'll further the baseball analogy; Michael Schumacher is Barry Bonds, the Home Run King. But Senna is Babe Ruth, the enduring legend who will always be held in higher esteem (Banovsky will surely disagree with me, being the die-hard Schumi fan he is.) (Yup! -Ed.)

  Read on…

  Read full article | Comments (1) | Filed under Feature, History, Formula 1