Eau de Penn State smells of flowers, not football
BERWICK, Pa. (AP) — Fans of Penn State can smell like the school for just $60. A fragrance developer says it has made a perfume and a cologne inspired by Pennsylvania State University’s blue and white colors and its campus vegetation….
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Eau de Penn State smells of flowers, not football
BERWICK, Pa. (AP) — Fans of Penn State can smell like the school for just $60. A fragrance developer says it has made a perfume and a cologne inspired by Pennsylvania State University’s blue and white colors and its campus vegetation….
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2009 Nissan 370Z – Road Test
From minor but insistent Lamarckian enhancement does greatness accrue.*
BY JOHN PHILLIPS
*We once heard William F. Buckley Jr. say that, and it sounded cool.
At the Z car’s U.S. introduction 40 years ago, Datsun wisely chose not to employ its domestic “Fairlady” moniker, which Yutaka Katayama knew would have been tantamount to calling, say, the Corvette the “Cocker Spaniel.” Since then, the hyphen that originally separated the “240” from the “Z” has vanished, 1.3 extra liters of displacement have more than doubled the original engine’s output, an actor briefly made Mr. K a red-bespectacled TV star, and the car’s price has swollen by about $27,000.
Nissan refers to this latest Z as an “enhancement,” likely largely a male enhancement, rather than a whole new car. The company is being modest. The wheelbase is shorter by 3.9 inches, width is up 1.1 inches, length is down 2.7 inches. The larger engine (same V-6 as in the Infiniti G37) produces 332 horsepower, a bonus of 26, and it sits 15 millimeters closer to the pavement, which is now hugged by a true unequal-length control-arm front suspension. Although Nissan’s engineers had to add nearly 200 pounds of safety and regulatory bric-a-brac, the car is only 33 pounds heavier than the 350Z we tested in June of ’07, in part because the hatch, A-pillars, and doors are now aluminum. We know, because we attacked them with a “Big Sky” fridge magnet.
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This Week in Photos: 11-23-2008 – 11-28-2008
Closing off the month of November it’s time for our ‘This Week in Photos’ post. This week check out photos of the new 2010 Porsche Panamera, 2010 Mazda3 5-door, 2009 MINI Cooper Convertible, GM HydroGen4 Concept, edo competition Ferrari FXX, Zwickenpflug BMW M3 Coupe, and the 2010 Mercedes-Benz GLK.
Click through for a full week’s worth of galleries.
Volvo S60 Concept (View Photos):
edo competition Ferrari FXX (View Photos):
2010 Mazda3 5-door (View Photos):
2010 Porsche Panamera (View Photos):
2010 Chevrolet Camaro Black – Live from 2008 LA Auto Show (View Photos):
Zwickenpflug BMW M3 Coupe (View Photos):
Lumma Design CLR X 650 (View Photos):
Carlsson RS-Design Kit for the Mercedes-Benz S-Class (View Post):
GM HydroGen4 Concept (View Photos):
ABT Sportsline Audi Q5 (View Photos):
2010 Mercedes-Benz GLK (View Photos):
PPI Audi R8 Razor GTR (View Photos):
Marangoni M430 – Alfa Romeo Mi.To (View Photos):
Usain Bolt Drives the Ferrari F430 Spider (View Photos):
2009 MINI Cooper S Convertible (View Photos):
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