Hey Guys First of all I want to Thank YOU for accompanying me through the whole year. 2011 has been an amazing Year for me. Especially cause I started this Blog on January 1st 2011 and through you The Car Addict is now what it is! For 2012 I can already say that it will be much more exciting than the first year. I want to attend more Motor Shows, Events, Fairs, Museum, and I also want to try to spend more time for Blogging, try to do it really daily or even twice a day. But we will see what the Future brings and again, thank YOU so so much for everything!
If you have any wishes, hopes or needs you want to share with you, any changes or additions you would like to have here, dont hesitate to get in touch!! Either use E-Mail or Facebook or twitter.
Now some statistics before an overload of Pictures shot while this amazing Year.
Hey Guys When I visited the BMW Museum in Munich this month I also took a look at the Atelier & Treasury. Check out what mysterious things I found there ...
I hope your're all enjoying your after-christmas-pre-new-years-eve time and for some entertaining reasons now the Impressions of the Fair Girls at the Frankfurt Motor Show last September. I've just found folders with dozens of unpublished photos ... these will follow tomorrow ... till then, enjoy the Girls ;-) Already on my To-Do-List for the Geneva Motor Show: snap more Girls!!
Today is December 24th and I wish all of you, my dear friends, followers and readers, and your families a happy Christmas Eve. Enjoy your free days and have a great time with your loves!
I recieved already some Presents (they are still unopen, of course!!) and tomorrow I'll share what I recieved with you. Now I'm off to buy the last presents ...
Have a great time all over the world by celebrating Christmas!!
As Christmas is just around the corner, everythings a bit more hectic, and I also have to work this evening for now just some more Impressions of the Haldenhof Revival with green, orange and white Porsche.
Are you also so busy with christmas and everything right now?
Here you find an overview of my Posts about the Mercedes Benz Museum in Stuttgart. But not only the current one, I've also visited the old one in 2005!
Up from today every day I'll just review what happened during this year here on The Car Addict .... the first year since this Blog is existing. Let's start with January!
January, what a nice month and the New Year's Eve hast now just another better meaning - The Car Addict's Birthday was on the first January in 2011. Here's my first Post Hello and welcome!- haha, I havent wrote much at this time :)
What happened then? Sure, everything was just new, had to be developed and just grow. Like the "Car of the Week"-Series I now have since January 9th. The first Car was the legendary DeLorean DMC-12. And I already started at this time my "model car addiction" :-)
I also introduced you Clärenore Stinnes- kind of my Idol. She was the first human ever who drove a Car once around the whole Continent. She, her Photographer Carl-Alex Söderström and a Mechanic needed 2 years and one month with their two Adler Standard 6.
Also the first Spot of the Dayappeared - a red Lamborghini Diablo VT.
These were some of my / The Car Addict's January 2011 Highlights. Till then ... see you tomorrow for another month-Review and a nice Website-Presentation ;-)
After the 328 Hommage Pictures yesterday now its role model, the classic BMW 328 which was built from 1937 to 1939. 464 were totally produced of this sports Car in Eisenach, Germany. •••READ MORE•••
Before publishing all the Cars you wanted to have and all the other ones I'll start with some "Random Impressions" of my visit at the BMW Museum - let the photo editing marathon begin ;-)
It's Christmas and whats better than listening to (Christmas) Music, eat some Cookies and decorating your Home. I did it with my all my own CAR ADDICT CHRISTMAS TREE !!! OMG, I love it :)
You ever wanted to know more about the DEVELOPMENT STORY of a Car and how everything comes together till a Car really gets built? Then check out the Development Story of the Exige S. •••READ MORE•••
If you have noticed yet or not, but Christmas is just around the corner and so some automotive brands just started own advent contests / "Adventskalender" where you can win nice things, up to a real electric Car! Want to know more?
Today an Asian "Car of the Week", the Honda NSX and a customized model car version.
The NSX is also known under the name Acura NSX and was produced from 1990 to 2005 and assembled by the Honda Motor Company in Tochigi and Suzuka, in Japan.
"up! - it's perfect for every kind of human. A Car that's so diverse as everyone of us."
As its an all know fact, the most things that happen by chance are the best, also what I did on Monday this week: I was just walking and discovering new places when I passed the booth VW had at the 8seasons in the Sonnenstraße in Munich. They were offering 30 minute-drives for everyone who was interested in. •••READ MORE•••
From May 3rd to 5th 2012 the first "Bodensee-Klassik" will happen. Organised by the german Classic Car Magazine AUTO BILD KLASSIK more than 100 nice classics will participate in this Rallye around the beautiful Lake of Constance.
With the start in Bregenz, Austria, the Cars will go to Friedrichshafen, Germany, drive some rounds at the ZF test track, then to Konstanz, Germany, and back trough Switzerland to the Finish in Bregenz, Austria.
Some more news will follow and on this Page you will find, in May 2012, all my "Bodensee-Klassik" releated Posts with own Video and Photo footage.
Before I'll publish my Test Drive with the nice VW up! tomorrow I share today some of my own snaps from the IAA - Frankfurt Motor Show with you. The Motor Show took place in September this year in Frankfurt, Germany, and the up! was one of the Cars that got presented to the public there for the first time.
Do not forget: I asked all of you for Questions you have about the up! and its still now to late if you have one, two or more things you'd like to know about Volkswagen's new small Car! Write me an e-Mail or write your Question(s) below, thanks! Every Question will get an Answer! EVERY!! ;)
At the Haldenhof Revival in Ludwigshafen, near the Lake of Constance in Germany, a Bosch Service Car attended the Hill Climb. A customized, very pretty done, classic Volkswagen Bulli from 1956. Isn't it nice?? :)
When you're used to something every day, again and again, and it's just a great habit of yourself (and millions and millions of others on this planet) - driving a Car. •••READ MORE•••
Hey Guys What a bargain I did on eBay a few weeks ago: a (almost) brand new Audi A1 Soft Shell Jacket. I got it for only about 20 % of the real shop-price, so that helps me to get over that I can at least not wear this one until March, April or later in 2012.
You all know it ... you're just searching for any random things on Google and checking out the Pictures. I was interested in what google will offer when I search for "Sexy Cars". I hoped to get not only (half-)naked woman and instead some nice Cars. I had to do a hard research for my own pleasures, but I do not withhold you what I found, so now the search results when you look for SEXY CARS:
(For the original source, just click the respective picture for a redirect to the original website)
Yesterday there was a talk with the title "Car Fetish" ("Fetisch Auto") at the Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen, Germany. Even just cause of the title I couldnt miss this event!!!
It started at 7 pm but already since 5 pm there was space for car addicts, like me, they were showing the original film "Herbie rides again" ("Herbie groß in Fahrt") by Robert Stevenson from 1974.
Roland Wetzel, Director of the museum Tinguely in Basel, Switzerland, presented us the exhibitition that took place in his museum from June to October this year. There just couldn't be a better name than "Car Fetish. I drive, therefore I am." (" Fetisch Auto. Ich fahre, also bin ich") for it, definitely!!!
What nice news today: the LUXURY SEDAN but also ELECTRIC VEHICLE Fisker Karma just achieved a ALL-ELECTRIC RANGE of 83 km and with the range extender it only needed 2.1l/100km - wow! And all this with only 51 g/km CO2.
The Karma is with its 400 HP definitely one of the most efficient, lowest emission automobiles available despite its size, performance and visual appeal.
It's time for another Wednesday Event! Today I'll present you a very special classic car event. The largest city at the Lake of Constance, Constance, will meet Cape Town in South Africa. You're thinking "How is this possible?" Keep on reading!
the "biggest Key", of an Audi A1, in comparison with the one of a Volkswagen Golf
Always the Question "Who got the biggest" CAR KEY has now finally an end ... sorry Guys, I think this is probably one of the biggest keys ... or do you know any bigger one? If so, comment below, thanks!! ;)
While the 16th Lindau Klassik, a nice classic car Event in south Bavaria, at June 26th 2011 I've spotted while the Start straight at the Harbour/the Lake of Constance this lovely BMW 3,0 Csi Coupe from 1972. I'm in Love, you're too?
We all know and love the dozens of movies with wheel spinning Cars, more powerful than little kids can actually count and all the fast rides on the motorways/ the autobahn. But now imagine all this with zero emission and in total silence - but with a plus of heart beating and probably more enthusiasms.
No, you don't need to be perplex now cause you can't imagine that such a movie/documentary could be fun, but belive me, you will like it!!
Revenge of the Electric Car is not only a movie, a film, a documentary, it's so touching and much more than these previous words could describe!
The world and especially the automotive world is now at a point of rethinking and fining new ways for transportation. Elon Musk, I could mention it a trillion times, is just a real genius! He knows what we, the people, really want without saying it or even thinking about it. Combining minimalistic with usabillity and add new technics and above all, break new grounds. That's not the only thing the documentation is about, but why not creating an own opinion?!
Unfortunately (I could cry right now!!) there aren't any release dates for Europe now, but keep on voting for your own City or the next bigger city where you live, and hopefully it will find soon its way to Europe! (more Infos below!)
You're from the US? Here are a bunch of the upcoming new release dates:
Interested in an affordable electric City Car thats just on time and what I've already test drove while the Frankfurt Motor Show? Check out the smart electric drive.
Also check out the Trailer!! GO! You have to! By the way, I love the plate "Gas sux" - want it too!! :-)
What do you thing of "Revenge of the Electric Car"? Would you watch it? If not, why?
HOW TO request your own City: Go to http://www.revengeoftheelectriccar.com/see-the-film.html, select either the US or Europe, fill out the forms, choose a City next to where you live, mark that you'd like to subscribe to the Newsletter and that was it for now.
Further share it with all your friends so they request and "vote" for your City, too, and maybe soon over here in Europe we will be able to enjoy "The Revenge of an Electric Car", too!!
One day before the Motor Show I've spotted these dozens of Jag E-Types in front of any hotel (can't even remember where it was) in Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
It's not very often that you can "touch" the Posts of a Blog, but in this (and my) case this time it's true - you can hold pictures published here in your own hands, or on your head, you can touch it with your feet, ...
