Monday, November 27, 2006

Equinox review from AutomotiveTalk

Check out the comprehensive review of the Chevy Equinox, posted at Automotive Talk.

Posted by Admin on 11/27 at 06:19 AM
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Cloud Rider Custom Grills for Chevy Equinox

Just three more days!

Just three more days until the Cloud Rider Grille contest ends!  Have you entered yet?  Even God entered this contest (I swear I saw his name in the list of entrants).  Good luck to everyone!

Posted by Admin on 11/27 at 06:04 AM
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UT students work on fuel efficient SUV

November 12, 2006
By MELISSA DiPANE
6 News Anchor/Reporter

OAK RIDGE (WATE)—With gas prices rising again, you might be considering a switch to a more affordable kind of fuel. A group of students at UT is perfecting a vehicle that could be right up your alley.  On the outside, it looks like any other SUV. But on the inside, it’s a fuel efficient, clean emission work of art.

“We switched the engine from gas six cylinder to a four cylinder diesel engine. We are actually running it on biodiesel,” says UT student Courtney Lindwurm. The Chevy Equinox is part of UT automotive research.  Students are working with General Motors in a project called Challenge X, a national competition for engineering students to improve the vehicle by decreasing total energy consumption and emissions while maintaining vehicle performance. It’s a three year program.  Seventeen teams from across the country, including UT, are working with the program.  “This project taught me a lot about machinery and how you have to take something with problems fix them and go through it. It doesn’t always work the first time,” Lindwurm says.

On Sunday, the team captains took their project to an autocross in Oak Ridge. Lindwurm says it’s the best way to work out the kinks before the project is completed. “We can see what’s wrong and make it the best it can be.” UT’s car will go up against 17 others next summer. The competition will be judged by General Motors.  Besides getting a lot of research from the students, General Motors sometimes hires the most talented students.

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Monday, November 06, 2006

New contest featuring CloudRider.ca!

We have a new contest to announce (because good things are worth waiting for).  Thanks to the generosity of CloudRider.ca, we’re giving away a stainless steel Chevy Equinox grill insert to one lucky winner.  The contest is simple—just submit your name and email address on the contest entry form to be entered (one entry per person).  A winner will be chosen at random by a computer software program when the contest closes, and the prize will ship directly from Cloud Rider.

The only contest requirement is that you actively participate on the message board and have at least three valid posts.  Signing up to say “hi” doesn’t count as a valid post, but signing up and introducing yourself to the group and telling us about your ‘Nox certainly does.  We just want to make sure the prize is won by someone who loves their Equinox and wants to jazz it up, not by someone who just loves contests rasberry

To see what you can win, check out Cloud Rider grill combos for the 2005 Equinox, and Cloud Rider grill combos for the 2006 Equinox.

Here’s a link to a discussion thread about the contest:  Equinox contest thread

Posted by Admin on 11/06 at 01:27 AM
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