April Fool’s Day Roundup
April 1st, 2009
Since my trusty and humorous colleagues tgriffith and jgoods have left me driving our blog, among other things, alone while they’re on vacation, I’m taking a quick and easy approach to inject a little April Fool’s Day humor. Here’s a list of some of my favorite funny posts from around the auto-blog world today – please feel free to share yours with a comment. Enjoy!
- Maude Buys GM
- Hyundai’s new i10 pope-mobile is for the frugal religious leaders
- BREAKING: VW changes mind again, renames animal after sport
- Chin Jabber Wakes Drivers
- Porsche Panamera Shooting Break… My dream comes true!
- Rick Wagoner joins the eGMCarTech team!
Please share any of your favorite car-related April Fool’s Day posts we haven’t mentioned in a comment.
-Steve Halloran


Here is another funny one –
http://cars.about.com/b/2009/04/01/apple-announces-2011-icar.htm
Those images look an awful lot like the smart forfour and the smart roadster…..
What about IKEA’s Lenko car? They were supposed to “unveil” a car on April 1… Lots of speculation that it was a joke, but I haven’t seen any news on it! Imagine the 5-page assembly manual with no words on that one! HAha
Ikea won’t be building cars, but Leko is a car sharing program that Ikea is starting. I think it will only be available in France. Not sure if that will expand.