Posts Tagged ‘car’
Tuesday, April 9th, 2013
Remember back five years ago, when the SFPD pined for Chrysler products?
As seen in 2008:
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Well, it’s happening, man. It’s finally happening.
Sighted yesterday in Randy Shaw’s corrupt Twitterloin / corrupt Microsoft Yammerloin, here’s my white whale, a Dodge Charger in SFPD livery
Is this a one-off, merely a test? Or is it the start of a flood of SFPD radio cars what aren’t Ford Crown Victorias?
I know not.
Anyway, this is a shock after seeing decades of Crown Vics prowling the 415.
Does anybody know?
Tags: 2013, bay area, car, charger, chrysler, corrupt, crown vic, crown victoria, Daimler, department, dodge, ford, hemi, microsoft, MY NEXT POLICE CAR IS GOing to HAVE A HEMI, MY NEXT POLICE CAR IS GONNA BE A HEMI, MY NEXT POLICE CAR IS GONNA TO HAVE A HEMI, police, rt, San Francisco, SFPD, that thing got a hemi, TTGAH, twitterloin, v6, v8, yammer, Yammerloin
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Friday, April 5th, 2013
Remind me again why we subsidize Telsa Motors?
Via iPhone 5 owner – click to expand
Tags: 2013, batmobile, bay area, california, car, electric, glass google glass, google, HQ, linkedin, model s, pink, San Francisco, Sergey Brin, tesla
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Friday, March 29th, 2013
This is the end of the Coda Automotive DeathWatch, which started on October 14th, 2010.
But tell me if I’m wrong, tell me if the final assembly facility in Benicia starts chugging out product all of a sudden ala Willie Wonka’s chocolate factory.
Otherwise, I’m concluding that Coda is dead. It’s not responding to stimuli, anyway.
Get the story here, just keep on clicking back in time to learn about the star-crossed Coda Sedan.
Why did we, the taxpayers, subsidize Coda when it was obvious that it couldn’t succeed?
I don’t know.
Now back in 2007, the electric car we were going to get from China was called the Javlon XS500. It was suppose to come in 2008. It didn’t. Check it:
Adieu, Coda Automotive.
“Miles Automotive on the $30,000 Javlon XS500 all-electric sedan“
Then, in 2008, we were promised the Miles XS500. That was going to come in 2009. It didn’t. Check it:
“Miles XS500 will be a lot more expensive than planned, maybe“
Then, in 2009, we were promised the Coda Automotive Sedan. That was going to come in 2010. It didn’t. Check it:
“Coda Automotive Unveils New Mainstream All-Electric Sedan“
And on and on.
Per Wiki:
Coda’s investors include:
- Aeris CAPITAL – a private Swiss investment office
- Harbinger Capital Partners - private hedge fund based in New York City, New York.
- Riverstone Holdings - a private equity firm based in New York City, New York.
- Piper Jaffray - a U.S. middle-market investment banking firm based in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Angeleno Group – a Los Angeles based private equity firm
- EDB Investments (EDBI) – an investment firm headquartered in Singapore
- Countyline LLC – an investment entity owned by Tony Pritzker and J.B. Pritzker
- John Bryson, former U.S. Secretary of Commerce and adviser at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts[23]
- Miles L. Rubin – Founder and Chairman Emeritus of CODA Automotive; former CEO of Detroit Iron & Steel Industries, Reliance Manufacturing, Puritan Fashions Corp. and Polo Ralph Lauren Jeanswear
- Steven “Mac” Heller – Executive Chairman of CODA Automotive; former Goldman Sachs Head of Mergers & Acquisitions, Worldwide and Co-Head of the Investment Banking Division[23]
- Tom Steyer – Managing Director of Hellman & Friedman, a San Francisco private equity firm; Founder, Co-Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Farallon Capital; member of the Board of Trustees of Stanford University[23]
- Klaus Tschira, founder of SAP AG[23]
- Les Wexner – Chairman and CEO of Limited Brands
- Henry “Hank” Paulson - former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, former Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs and special representative of the U.S.-China Strategic Economic Dialogue[23]
- Mack McLarty – (Thomas “Mack” McLarty) Former Chief of Staff for President Bill Clinton, President of McLarty Associates and McLarty Companies, a transportation business based in Little Rock, Arkansas[23]
- Kevin Czinger – Senior Strategic Advisor, CODA Automotive; Former President and CEO at CODA Automotive, executive at Global Signal, Webvan Group, Bertelsmann AG, and Goldman Sachs
Board of Directors
- Miles L. Rubin – Founder and Chairman Emeritus, CODA Automotive; former CEO of Detroit Iron & Steel Industries, Reliance Manufacturing, Puritan Fashions Corp. and Polo Ralph Lauren Jeanswear
- Steven “Mac” Heller – Executive Chairman, CODA Automotive; former Goldman Sachs Head of Mergers & Acquisitions, Worldwide and Co-Head of the Investment Banking Division
- Alan Chesick – Acting Legal Advisor of CODA Automotive, former general counsel of Fortress Investment Group
- Daniel Weiss – Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Angeleno Group LLC, a leading Los Angeles-based private equity firm focused on high growth investments in the energy sector
- John Bryson - Former Chairman, CEO and President of Edison International from 1990 through 2008, a director at The Boeing Company, The Walt Disney Company, and the California Institute of Technology
- Niall Davis – One of ten founding partners of Swiss aeris CAPITAL AG, a large global private equity firm
- Philip Murtaugh – CEO, CODA Automotive; former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of GM China, EVP International Operations of SAIC
- James P. McGinnis – Managing Director, Harbinger Capital Partners
- Lord John Browne – Managing Director and Managing Partner of Riverstone Holdings LLC, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Chair of the Tate, Member of the House of Lords
Board of Advisors
- Mack McLarty – (Thomas “Mack” McLarty) Former Chief of Staff for President Bill Clinton, President of McLarty Associates and McLarty Companies, a transportation business based in Little Rock, Arkansas
- Dr. Thomas Cardello – Partner of Sunrise Capital, an institutional fund manager, Advisory Director and former MD of Global Electronic Derivative Market making for Morgan Stanley
- Dr. Michael Wang – Manager of the Systems Assessment Section of the Center for Transportation Research at Argonne Labs, serves as a senior advisor to the Chinese government on new vehicle technology and alternative energy production
- Henry “Hank” Paulson - former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, former Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs and special representative of the U.S.-China Strategic Economic Dialogue
- Thomas F. Steyer – Managing Director of Hellman & Friedman, a San Francisco private equity firm; Founder, Co-Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Farallon Capital; member of the Board of Trustees of Stanford University
- Woo C. Lee – Head of Asia for the advisory firm JL Thornton & Company, formerly a U.S. diplomat at American embassies in China, Japan, Australia and Southeast Asia
- Thomas R. McDaniel – Director of SunPower Corp., SemGroup, LP, Cypress Envirosystems, and the Senior Care Action Network and Formerly executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer of Edison International
- Kevin Czinger – Senior Strategic Advisor, CODA Automotive; Former President and CEO at CODA Automotive, executive at Global Signal, Webvan Group, Bertelsmann AG, and Goldman Sachs
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Thursday, March 28th, 2013
Oh and to gather intel and to pat people down and to arrest a person or two.
Thusly
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They call it “community policing.”
Tags: 2013, arrst, bay area, bus, california, car, community policing, divco, fillmore, NOPA, police, San Francisco, SFPD, stop, UC, undercover, western addition
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Wednesday, March 27th, 2013
Here it is:
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Tags: 230 sl, 230sl, benz, car, clement, convertible, coupe, green, hardtop, Mercedes, mercedes banz, pagoda, pgoda roof, richmond district, roadster, roof, six cylinder, sl 230, sl230, slow, street, w113
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Wednesday, March 13th, 2013
Has it been ten years since Ninja Rocks have been enshrined in our California Criminal Code? Yes!
Celebrate by breaking into cars this year, as people are already doing on McAllister Street right near City Hall.
But don’t use a hammer to get car booty. Hammers are heavy.
Use ninja rocks to break windows instead. (They’re super light so they’re easy to carry around.)
Thusly:
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PENAL CODE SECTION 466-469
“466. Every person having upon him or her in his or her possession a
picklock, crow, keybit, crowbar, screwdriver, vise grip pliers,
water-pump pliers, slidehammer, slim jim, tension bar, lock pick gun,
tubular lock pick, bump key, floor-safe door puller, master key,
ceramic or porcelain spark plug chips or pieces, or other instrument
or tool with intent feloniously to break or enter into…”
Tags: 2013, aluminum, bay area, break, broken, burglary, california, car, ceramic, code, crime, criminal, drugs, into, junkies, night, ninja, ninja rocks, no radio, plug, plugs, pocket, rocks, San Francisco, SFPD, spark plug, spark plugs, tools, Window, windows
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Wednesday, March 13th, 2013
Look at this guy – see all the stickers he has from San Francisco’s ridiculous residential parking permit program?
He’s probably paid, all by himself, for two or three day’s worth of retirement benefits for a Parking Control Officer.
Hurray!
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And look, he bought a bunch of parking permits the right way, you know, one after the other.
Unlike some other people:
Danielle Steel’s “Parking Orgy“
Remember, Transit First (except for participants of the Residential Parking Program).
Tags: 2013, bay area, Blue, california, car, corolla, danielle steel, DPT, dr woof, fee, fees, G, license plate, Muni, neighborhood, pacific heights, parking, parking parker, permit, residential, San Francisco, SFMTA, sticker, toyota, transit first
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Friday, March 8th, 2013
I don’t know, do you make a half-million dollars per year? Well then you just might be richer than a typical San Francisco Bar Pilot.
I’m telling you, it’s the best blue-collar job in the world.
Why do they get paid so much? IDK.
Why do they get paid more than double or triple what other American bar pilots get paid? IDK.
Anyway, this fellow may or may not be an SF bar pilot, but he could be:
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Oh well.
Tags: 2013, 94111, Bar Pilot, bay area, Blue-Collar, california, canyons, Captain, car, ferrari convertible, pay, red, roaring, salsty, San Francisco, San Francisco Bar Pilot, ship, Shipping, street, tugboat
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Thursday, March 7th, 2013
Do you remember this one, from last month?
I do.
Good times.
Well, since then, this vehicle has been making waves, you know, getting pulled over by the SFPD, getting ticketed by SFMTAMUNIDPTSFBC meter maids (Tough People, Good Jobs), and getting towed outta Chinatown like a beached whale.
And you know what the little people, the tiny topolino, those boring, mousy types who can only dream of being piloti di Lamborghini or a sexy-time lover of piloti di Lamborghini, you know what they do? They whip out their cell phones and then post photos to the Internet.
Fucking haters!
As here on Market last month, via my Samsung Galaxy Note II phablet:
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And here’s an effort from Lulu Vision a few days later:
But there was no ticket issued for this particular yellow zone violation. Lucky Devil!
Now speak of the Devil, El Diablo, here’s a list of recent citations issued for this whip by the SFMTA:
02/13/13 T37C STREET CLEANING $62.00
02/25/13 T202.1 PRK METER DOWNTOWN $72.00
02/28/13 T37C STREET CLEANING $62.00
03/01/13 T38C WHITE ZONE $98.00
03/02/13 V22502A OVER 18 IN. FRM CURB $57.00
03/02/13 T38C WHITE ZONE $98.00
03/02/13 T38A RED ZONE $98.00
Of course the cops don’t care about you parking in the yellow zone when they’re pulling you over, as here on Kearny. Also via Lulu Vision:
Hey look what came out of the Lambo – it’s a quarter ounce of medicinal Mary Jane plus a quarter gallon of medicinal luxury vodka.
Good times. Good times for 32-year-old Mr. Cheng.
(Good thing that vodka was capped, Brother. Anyway, the SFPD let him go with a ticket.)
But getting towed from the front of the Chinatown McDonalds because of corrupt Rose Pak’s Chinese New Year’s parade, well that’s the limit, am I right, people?
Via Angimm11
I’ll tell you, I don’t know if this kind of exoticar lifestyle is sustainable.
Well let’s the driver of this car can Go Forth And Sin No More…
Tags: 18 inches, 2013, American, asian, bay area, Blue, california, car, chinatown, chinese, cops, curb, dept., driver, exotic, gallardo, italian, lambo, lamborghini, marijuana, market, mary jane, McDonalds, medicinal, meter, new year, parade, police, polizia, pulled over, San Francisco, SF, SFPD, stopp, street, supercar, ticketed, tow truck, vodka, white, yellow, zone
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Tuesday, March 5th, 2013
Just saying.
And especially recently:
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Tags: 2013, bay area, break, broken, california, car, crime, glass, junkies, mcallister, San Francisco, SFPD, street, windows
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