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zerinVR6
03-10-2008, 07:20 AM
Avoidable Contact #10 - There’s no stop to the madness; the new site; introducing “Mr. Roboto”. (http://www.speedsportlife.com/2008/03/07/avoidable-contact-10-theres-no-stop-to-the-madness-the-new-site-introducing-mr-roboto/)

March 7th, 2008


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Story by Jack Baruth, photography by Matt Chow

Don’t look now, but Dubspeed Driven has become a pretty big deal in the past year or so. Thanks to you, our faithful and patient readers, we’re knocking the teeth out of some of the biggest names in auto-blog-o-lism. While our competitors spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on snazzy offices, first-class flights to Europe, “branding consultants”, and high-priced, low-talent hack writers, we’re getting it done with the proverbial two tables and a microphone… which is really more like four part-timers and a couple of Canon DSLRs, but you get the idea. There’s no money in this for us, no banner ads funneling cheddar into offshore accounts. You won’t find any ulterior motives at work here - we just want to have fun and share some neat cars with you along the way.

With so many “eyeballs” in the same electronic room, so to speak, it’s time to shove the walls out a bit and remodel to serve you better. In the next month, the site you know as Dubspeed Driven will formally re-brand as Speed:Sport:Life, with a new, more readable format and a double-barrel blast of new content. I’d like to tell you that we’re getting a ground-up redesign along the lines of our big-dollar “e-magazine” competition, but let’s face it: if we had that kind of money, we’d spend it filling a Daytona Prototype with strippers, not building a photo studio and filling it with trolls. Sorry about that. We will, however, be making a solid effort to make it easier for you to read and enjoy the articles. Fonts, whitespace, formatting - we’re working on all of that.

Oh yeah, we also have a new test driver. He’s an evil cyborg made from German scrap metal, artificial eyeballs grown in a dry-ice-flooded laboratory, and a stolen pig heart.

Read the rest of this entry » (http://www.speedsportlife.com/2008/03/07/avoidable-contact-10-theres-no-stop-to-the-madness-the-new-site-introducing-mr-roboto/)

conecrazy
03-10-2008, 10:31 AM
great job!

VashThaStampede
03-10-2008, 10:46 AM
that R8 at full song is incredible!

NOPISTN
03-10-2008, 12:07 PM
so your trying to copy the stig?

zerinVR6
03-10-2008, 12:18 PM
Satire, look it up.

so your trying to copy the stig?

Rybo
03-10-2008, 09:28 PM
Satire, look it up.

so your making fun of the stig????

zerinVR6
03-10-2008, 09:59 PM
NOTHING gets past you guys!

Rybo
03-11-2008, 12:24 PM
NOTHING gets past you guys!

lol i pride myself on my ability to use google, but seriously why though??? Top Gear is one of the most popular shows in the world.

zerinVR6
03-11-2008, 02:40 PM
We're just having fun with it...not mocking it.

NOPISTN
03-14-2008, 01:45 PM
We're just having fun with it...not mocking it.
Ahhh, if your sarcasm is not 100% blatantly obvious my sarcasm detector has no chance.

1989 DX R
03-31-2008, 02:37 PM
We're just having fun with it...not mocking it.

You can lead them to water, but you can't make them drink. I got it, and found it amusing.