By Dan Strohl

Hemmings

Are Winnebagos collectible? Old camp trailers certainly are, and there’s no denying the iconography of the Winnebago, so the elements are there. But judging from the $2,995 asking price of this 1972 Brave currently for sale on Hemmings.com, and the fact that the only place you see Winnebagos at collector car auctions is in the parking lot, I’m inferring that there’s not much demand for them. Correct? From the seller’s description:

Rare 18 ft, 318 V8, auto, 66K miles, driven here a year ago from Arizona, runs and drives excellent, great rubber, all the lights work, original paint, interior needs finishing, drive to camp or tailgate with style.

By Speedhunters

Car Culture At Large

Laurence from Japan sent us this great little film about extending the life of a drift car’s bumper. The clip is part of the Phat Sliggity DVD. Enjoy!

By Mike Garrett

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Our buddies at PASMAG sent us a bunch of pics from the Tokyo Auto Salon. Check ‘em out over in Events!

By Michael Berenis

Tampa Sports Car Examiner

Pulling a blistering 1.48 second 60 foot time and 9.66 second quarter mile time at 146.19 mph, the Lethal Performance team holds the record for fastest 2010 Ford Shelby GT500. Still room left for vehicle and run improvement, Lethal Performance is sure to break it’s own record in the near future. Read more about the run at Tampa Sports Car Examiner.

By Ted Berner

GTwildfire

I have commented about Nano Titanate Lithium battery technology and blogged about EVs. I don’t think that “planned obsolescence” has a place in the EV market or any market for that matter. If you have a best idea, use it. If there’s something, some technology out there that’s available and obviously better than what you’re planning to use – and will make an insanely huge improvement in your product – Why not use it? If I scratched my head starting right now for every time auto makers left me scratching my head, I’d be scratching my skull when finished.

With that said here are two articles. The first is a bus demonstration for Washington politicians. The demonstrator bus drives 2.5 hours on a 5 minute charge.

The second article is recent publicity from a well-known EV manufacturer. I’m not going to mention them by name because they represent the status quo for most production or production-bound EV development, and this is the direction they’re taking with respect to powering their vehicles.

I know and respect that some of you hate the idea of electric vehicles and probably would never own one. There are many more that would, however. It stands to reason that the transition to an electric car would not involve planning for the next day by plugging in or any other concessions. Using one, as a requirement by John Q. Public MUST involve fast (and I mean 10 minutes or less) recharges resulting in a range similar to that of a gasoline-burning rival in the marketplace, period.

Not buying gas? Great for some. Not taking hours to recharge? Great for most. Why don’t they get it?

By Fireball Tim

Movie Car Design Master

And so it begins…

With the alphabet comes cool cars across the globe. We begin with the A’s. If your name starts with an A, ends with an A, has an A in it or you just like the letter A ’cause it reminds you of Alphabet Soup, this post is for you… man.

Can you name them? I knew that you could. More after the jump!

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By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

In order to have more appeal up in the Great White North, F1′s overlords have decided to hold one race on frozen lake. Kidding. But Sebastien Buemi sure looks like he’s having a good time drifting around in this promo spot, though you have to wonder if this stunt is worth the money. And aren’t F1 cars super delicate? Seems like subjecting one to super-low temperatures would be bad, but what do I know?

By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

I’ve lived in some places with tiny-ass garages, and I know that Rob’s Satellite won’t even fit in his, but this old dude’s garage is seriously tight. I love how he gets out of the car…

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

So we’re kicking off a new daily feature in the CarDomain Blog: Photo of the Day. Each week day we’ll post a interesting photo of some kind. It can be of anything as long as it’s car-related. This was Ryan’s idea and I think it was a pretty good one. We’ll see how it goes. Anyway, if you have a photo you want me to post, PM me or shoot me an e-mail. This one was taken over the weekend after strong winds caused tents to collapse at the Russo and Steele auction in Phoenix, Arizona. Luckily no one was hurt, but some nice cars got pretty messed up.

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

I thought this car looked pretty cool at SEMA, and was glad to hear it fetched $130,000 at Barrett-Jackson on Saturday. Proceeds from the sale will go to the Petty Family Foundation and its charities, which include Victory Junction and Paralyzed Veterans of America. Via Autoblog