June 3rd, 2010 by sarah

I just received my media packet to cover this weekend’s Formula Drift event at Wall Speedway in Jersey.  Yeah, I know, I hate traveling to or through Jersey but I’ll make an exception for this type of thing.  The packet is filled with all types of info from how to get your dorky media vest that allows you into the zones on the track where I can get up close and personal (with a mouth full of rubber…) to the hometowns/vehicles of each driver.  There is a humorous little snippet of the demographics of drifting fans as well.  I thought I’d share a few with you:

• 86% are male
• 80% are between 16-29 years of age
• 97% own cell phones (really?  3% still look for payphones?  Even my 86yo grandma uses a cell phone)
• 90% own gaming systems (because Need for Speed is definitely an accurate simulator of how a car really handles…)
• 20% may ever try drifting (only about 5% ever should try)
• 70% enjoy watching the sport (why are the other 30% even bothering then?)
• 83% of fans own their own car (17% just “borrow” one and practice moves when running from the cops)

June 2nd, 2010 by sarah

If your first instinct was like mine (no more thermometers?  end of the heat wave?), you probably thought Ford had killed the Mercury brand years ago.  Imagine my shock to see they have been (and still will still be through the end of the year) producing new Mercury cars.  Seriously?  I’ve never understood why there needs to be basically the same car (Tempo/Topaz, Explorer/Mountaineer) manufactured under two different brand names anyways.  Seems like a waste with all the ridiculous options out there that customize any car.  Oh well, somehow they did manage to sell 9000 vehicles in May 2010.  By comparison, Ford sold 20x as many vehicles that month.  But we can’t forget the other dying car brands: Saab sold just 174 vehicles and Saturn 46.  Even the Smart car was purchased by just about 700 people! 

And the Hummer is dead too.  Yep, small endowed men everywhere will need to find security in another brand…

June 2nd, 2010 by sarah

I love a competitive game of sports, but the best sporting event on TV today has nothing to do with balls, unless you count bouncing off of them into a pool of mud.  Wipeout is a cross between a Japanese game show and Nickelodeon’s Double Dare and will tickle your funny bones while almost breaking a few of the competitors’.  Last night was a new version of the game, Wipeout Blind Date.  After all, the only thing better than one idiot trying to jump over hurdles and through hoops in a course 20 feet above a pool of water is Read the rest of this entry »