The Business of Cars

Clay Dillow — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:55:15 -0400

In 1908, a gallon of gas cost around 18 cents. Adjusted for inflation, that's about $3.90.

Ford produced more than 15,000,000 of the Model T, which averaged 21 miles per gallon.

GM has been the largest automaker in the world by production for 77 consecutive years, though analysts expect it to be surpassed by Toyota in the near future.

Toyota produces more than 1,500,000 cars per year in America and imports a million more. Last year it accounted for one of every five vehicles coming into the U.S.

Long Tails and Nine Inch Nails

Clay Dillow — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:30:50 -0400

Originally published on March 11th, 2008.

Fast Talk Response -

Clay Dillow — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:50:51 -0500

Check up on their latest patent applications. They're studiously working on it.

Where the Bridge Has No Name

Clay Dillow — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 10:22:08 -0500

Dubai, like Las Vegas, is a city of excess in the middle of a desert. But with the ungodly height of the 159-story (and growing) Burj Dubai, the unnatural symmetry of The Palm Jumeirah islands and the unabashed extravagance of the seven-star Burj Al Arab Hotel, Dubai is so steeped in its own impressiveness, so flush with starchitect projects, it makes even Elvis’s "Bright Light City" seem dim by comparison.

Aloha in Antarctica

Clay Dillow — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:42:06 -0500

When the National Science Foundation began a search for a firm to build a new research station in Antarctica, it passed over a handful of Alaska-based companies, turning instead to an architect in a more unorthodox locale. The NSF found its partner in the Aloha state, at Honolulu-based Ferraro Choi and Associates.