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Cool Cars, Ford

Cool Car Shot – Black 2006 Ford Mustang GT

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Hey Cool Car Fans,

05Mustang1I was getting my car washed the other day at the Water Waves car wash in Littleton and I met a guy, Paul, who was driving a sweet 2006 Ford Mustang GT.

I asked Paul to email me some photos of his car and he sent me the following photo shoot that he had taken this Fall.

The car is really cool, but check out those spooky looking trees as well. What a great setting for a black 2006 Mustang with red leather interior!

Paul is from Arkansas where he said that his Mustang performs much better because of the altitude, so he’s having his vehicle chipped and putting in a cold air intake for a performance increase while driving in Colorado.

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In our brief conversation at the car wash, he brought up the point that if he were to have the modifications performed outside of a Ford dealership it would void the manufacturer’s warranty. With that in mind, make sure you check your manufacturer’s warranty requirements before you start making upgrades to your newer vehicle.

I have another post on CoolCarGuy.com of a 2005 Ford Mustang GT that I delivered to a client earlier this year. You might want to check out that cool car as well.

If you are a Mustang enthusiast be sure and check out the MustangBlog where they have all things Mustang. This week they are reporting that the Shelby GT-H that Ford made for Hertz is going on the auction block. I can confirm that this is true. I saw 12 of them lined up yesterday at the Denver Auto Auction when I was out there bidding on a vehicle and they should be going in the Ford sale next week. I have a client who wants one and they are sure to go for all the dough.

The new body style on the Mustang is pretty darn cool and they are a blast to drive!

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What do you think?

Cool Car Guy Rating:
***** – Extremely Cool

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John BoydAuto Broker – John Boyd “The Cool Car Guy”
John is an automotive consultant with JFR & Associates in Denver, Colorado. He can help you save time and money on any make or model, new or used, lease or purchase – nationwide! Call or email John about your next vehicle!
jboyd@coolcarguy.com

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GM Highwire Video On YouTube

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Hey Cool Car Fans,

GM LogoIn case you missed the video of GM’s $5 million Highwire “Car of the future“, a client of mine emailed the link to me today and asked me to post it at CoolCarGuy.com Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby movie download . He also made the following comment and asked a very good question… “This is absolutely fascinating to me! Why is it so many years off…?”


For $5 million quid I would hope that this vehicle would be cool. The body style is something to be desired and looks too much like a Toyota Prius. GM probably can’t afford to put a vehicle like this into production because the cost of the proto-type was so high. Also, where are you going to fill-up a car like this? It’s not like there are hydrogen filling stations on every corner, which is the biggest problem for most alternative fuels. Even the growing E-85 alternative is only available at a few locations in Colorado.

Until McDonald’s and the fast food restaurants realize that they can be creating another profit center from their real estate locations, we will all continue to be at the mercy of the oil companies.

On another note, General Motors has recently announced that it plans to dump its line of mini-vans and rely on cross-over vehicles like the Saturn Outlook, Buick Enclave and GMC Acadia. This is a pretty giant leap forward for the automotive giant without introducing a new concept vehicle like the “Highwire” into mass production. However, it will be pretty cool when a vehicle like this finally becomes available ten or so years from now.

What do you think?

Cool Car Guy Rating:
**** – Pretty Cool

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John BoydAuto Broker – John Boyd “The Cool Car Guy”
John is an automotive consultant with JFR & Associates

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in Denver, Colorado. He can help you save time and money on any make or model, new or used, lease or purchase – nationwide! Call or email John about your next vehicle!
jboyd@coolcarguy.com

Phone: 720-771-6269

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Cool Cars, Subaru

Subaru AWD vs The Competition

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Hey Cool Car Fans,

I was talking with a friend of mine the other day at a local Subaru dealership about some of the AWD vehicles on the market today and he was telling me how Subaru’s AWD technology beat out the competition.

Craig started telling me about a video that they had to watch as part of their training about the benefits of Subaru’s AWD system compared to similar vehicles.

I located the training video at Google and it’s about 11 minutes in length, but pretty darn impressive. When I told Craig that I found the video, he said, “No, way. You know John, I actually got to tackle that hill in the vehicles shown on the video.” I thought that was pretty cool, so I asked him if he was in the video and he said, “Come on, I’m not that cool.”.

Check out the video and let me know, if you agree that the Subaru AWD system is pretty impressive in this video.

Subaru AWD vs Competition

What do you think?

Cool Car Guy Rating:
*** – Pretty Cool

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John BoydAuto Broker – John Boyd “The Cool Car Guy”
John is an automotive consultant with JFR & Associates in Denver, Colorado. He can help you save time and money on any make or model, new or used, lease or purchase – nationwide! Call or email John about your next vehicle!
jboyd@coolcarguy.com

Phone: 720-771-6269

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2006 X-Games Subaru WRX STI Rally Car Racing

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Hey Cool Car Fans,McRae

In August of this year, at the 2006 X-Games, world-famous motorcycle champion Travis Pastrana hopped into a $50,000 Subaru WRX STI rally car and beat out rally racing favorite Colin McRae. Colin McRae takes the silver medal and this race is AWESOME!

In case you missed these two superstars battling it out on the track, you’ll want to watch these two videos. Even if you’re not a rally car race fan, you should watch these two short videos. They’re definitely worth it! Just click on each of the two graphics and watch the videos over at YouTube.

PastranaI was talking with a buddy of mine at the office who watched the race as well, and he and I agreed that as exciting as this race was, we would like to see rally car racing have both vehicles go at the same time. It would be more like NASCAR or MotorCross meets rally racing. Nevertheless, this race was extremely fun to watch.

Check out the videos and let me know, if you agree that this was a very cool race.

What do you think?

Cool Car Guy Rating:
***** – Extremely Cool

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John BoydAuto Consultant – John Boyd “The Cool Car Guy”

John is an automotive consultant with JFR & Associates in Denver, Colorado. He can help you save time and money on any make or model, new or used, lease or purchase – nationwide! Call or email John about your next vehicle!
jboyd@coolcarguy.com

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Cool Car Shot – Mitsubishi’s Concept-CT MIEV

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Hey Cool Car Fans,Concept-CT

Earlier this month, I told you about the new electric powered 2006 Tesla Roadster The Hard Word dvd

that is being brought to market by Lotus and Tesla Motors. Now Mitsubishi is working on selling an electric car in the U.S. as well.

Mitsubishi has been testing hybrid and electric vehicles in Japan. The President of Mitsubishi believes that diesel technology, like VW and other companies are pursuing, is not environmentally friendly enough and hasn’t gone over as big in the U.S. and Japan as it has in Europe. Mitsubishi is committed to moving forward with “zero emission” electric vehicles that run off of lithium-ion batteries rather than nickel-metal hydride batteries.

Concept-CTThe Concept-CT MIEV is smaller than their Lancer. It’s a four-door (must be suicide doors becauuse the picture from the Detroit Auto Show doesn’t look like 4 doors), AWD and has a 1.1 liter gasoline engine making it a hybrid. Each wheel will have its own electric motor and the electric motors will provide all-wheel drive for the vehicle.

Mitsubishi definitely has to do something since they have been losing so much money over the past few years. It’s pretty cool to see them move forward with a gasoline alternative. I’m looking forward to test driving one of these cool cars and seeing how they perform on the open road. I think they look pretty cool.

What do you think?

Cool Car Guy Rating:
*** – Very Cool

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John BoydAuto Consultant – John Boyd “The Cool Car Guy”
John is an automotive consultant with JFR & Associates in Denver, Colorado. He can help you save time and money on any make or model, new or used, lease or purchase – nationwide! Call or email John about your next vehicle!
jboyd@coolcarguy.com

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