Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-28

• woohoo. @DirecTV install today from noon-4. I can't wait to call #TWC & tell them to bite me. #
• in a word…FUN. RT @BBC_TopGear: Some actual car news… Hamann's 261bhp Abarth 500 http://bit.ly/PmIB0 #
• Finally! RT @AutoBlogNews: HD Theater to begin screening WRC in October 4 [w/VIDEO] http://bit.ly/1vNpD1 #
• too bad no flying car "you will…" RT @shane_76: AT&T's 1993 "You will" ads…remarkably accurate indeed: http://tinyurl.com/loc92b #
• FINALLY! RT @SpeedSportLife: Top Gear to go HD next series http://bit.ly/FAw7V #
• RT @infinitinews: Infiniti Fans in Dallas, the Essence Concept will be at Hotel Za Za all day Thu Sept 24 #
• RT @TeamHallnNass: Our latest #Dustball Rally 1500 recap – Chapter 17 – The Bandit … is now live on http://teamhallnnass.wordpress.com #
• You know it's close to high school reunion time when you catch your wife doing cheers in the kitchen #fb #
• Jay Leno needs to stick to cars and leave comedy to Conan & Jimmy. this show is horrible. #
• love it! RT @highmileage: RT @TheAutoGuide …great racing quote: "If your car feels like it's on rails, you're going too slow!" -R.Bentley #
• just watched Ford unveil the Figo in India. Worst live-stream ever. luckily someone posted a Youtube vid: http://bit.ly/1kUCPJ #FORDAPA #
• RT @cbaccus: Please join #carchat today for a special 3PM EST—5PM EST time, #Gm Bob #lutz to join at 3:30PM #
• Surprising it's not a sports car, but 4-wheeling in Colorado in '72 K5 Chevy Blazer tops my GM experiences #carchat #
• My dad had one. That, as a whole is my worst GM experience. RT @stradablog: …the 350 diesel in Oldsmobiles. #carchat #
• Hahaha! RT @dawescott: Worst Gm experiance: Transformers #carchat #
• haha! RT @breakingauto: BMW apologizes in advance, warns 1 series owners their cars may be going through puberty this week. #
• Think we get majority of oil from Middle East? nope. http://bit.ly/29iHtw #
• RT @cbaccus: Check out and please vote for my 335i Convertible on "Texaco Car of the Decades" http://j.mp/xJXmo #BMW #CarShow #
• Steven Dinan to be in Dallas @ Autoscope on Oct 10. http://bit.ly/4E54Bl #
• Infiniti Essence at Hotel ZaZa earlier today. Nice to meet Josh @InfinitiNews http://twitpic.com/j0aii #
• Just left Chevy Sneak Peek @ TX State Fair. Thx to @GMTexas. Great event as usual. #
• Both Infiniti Essence & Chevy Sneak Peak photos coming soon at http://www.ReflectionsOfTheDrive.com #
• It was great! Pics soon! RT @infinitinews: Would like to thank http://www.ReflectionsOfTheDrive.com for coming to see the Infiniti Essence #
• great shot! RT @SpeedSportLife: Road Atlanta Turn 10a at night http://twitpic.com/j10f2 #petitlm #roadatlanta #
• Arthur, I salute you. http://twitpic.com/j14j7 #
• Thanks to Charlie & Nick for the opportunity to contribute to @burnoutradio. I'm looking fwd to it! http://www.burnoutradio.com/about #
• Now w/ 15% more Blah! RT @AsianMartin: they're switching me from an '07 Camry Hybrid to '10 Camry Hybrid. Like there would be a difference? #
• I now have a website logo! http://www.reflectionsofthedrive.com/ New galleries coming soon! #
• Chevy Experience Sneak Peak at State Fair of Texas – http://bit.ly/ZDow1 #
• Have you seen the Infiniti Essence Concept glow at night? http://bit.ly/1kG71 #
• Another great Cars & Coffee this morning #
• At the Texas Rangers game http://twitpic.com/jeet6 #
• My company was just purchased. We're to become "…an independently run Xerox organization." http://bit.ly/9bxGz #
• Hey @GMTexas! I got my article and pics up from the #Chevy Test Drive Sneak Peak! – http://bit.ly/ZDow1 #
• RT @insideline_com: An Early Look at the 2012 BMW M1 http://bit.ly/2bseaA #

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Infiniti Essence Concept

For those who aren’t familiar, the Infiniti Essence Concept car is a gas/electric hybrid vehicle utilizing Infiniti’s “3D Motor” technology.  This electric motor provides 158 bhp and twice the torque of your run-of-the-mill unit.  Combine this with another 434 bhp from the twin-turbo 3.7 liter V6 and you’ve got a nice-sized 592 bhp and can get almost 30 mph in combined city/hwy driving.  You’ll notice plenty of intriguing things as you look through the photo gallery, including that the Essence has no mirrors.  There are 6 cameras to do that job.  One on the roof, one on each A-pillar, one in each quarter-panel vent, and one on the trunk lid.

Ever since I saw the press release on the Infiniti Essence Concept and read it would eventually come to Dallas, I was on a quest to find out the location, date, and time it would be here.  That quest ended a week or so ago when I received a response from @InfinitiNews on Twitter.  The Essence was to arrive at Hotel ZaZa on September 24.  I showed up and met Josh with Infiniti, who eloquently explained more about this hybrid beauty. A few photos were all I could take before leaving for another event, but Josh informed me there was an Infiniti owners event there later that evening. Perfect. I conveniently own an Infiniti G35 and could then get some night-time shots as well. So I swung by later on for a few minutes and then left with some more pictures and some champagne in my belly. It was a good night.

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The Chevy Experience

Chevrolet has once again taken over a small parking lot on the south side of the State Fair of Texas. I highly recommend checking them out if you go to the fair this year. I was able to attend the Sneak Peek a couple days ago and was impressed with the “Chevy Experience”. You can even drive a Bumblebee Camaro around the course. Unfortunately, “no wheel spin” is the rule…something about not wanting mangled fenders and flattened fences. It’s a great opportunity to learn more about the Chevrolet lineup.  So after you get some fried butter, stop on by.   If you’re on Twitter, follow @GMTexas and let them know you’re coming!

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-09-21

• RT @richardyoo: How to speed up Firefox 3.5 http://bit.ly/2GHelp #
• Watching Hurt Locker at Autoscope w/ N TX Audi Club #
• Me too RT @SpeedSportLife: Wow, I paid $2.49/gal for 93 yesterday RT @insideline_com: Gassing up our long-term M3. Premium is $3.40 a gallon #
• Nice! That' freakin cool guys! RT @burnoutradio: I uploaded a YouTube video –Ford Fiesta Review Teaser 2 http://bit.ly/1VA8uo #
• Jimmy Fallon tonight: VW debuted it's new electric car, the E-Up. Don't confuse it with Chrysler's new car F-Up #
• RT @TeamHallnNass: Our latest #Dustball Rally 1500 recap – Chapter 12 – Snake Charmed is now live on http://teamhallnnass.wordpress.com #
• Clarkson proves w/ the Corvette ZR-1 that GM has what it takes to be world-class again. http://bit.ly/3VjpLt #
• for the DFW tweeps: RT @infinitinews: @trentor_drive Sept 24th it will be on display at the Hotel ZaZa, stop by and see us and the Essence #
• RT @shiitake: New Blogpost – Farstar – Want ad for a keyboard/synth chick http://tinyurl.com/rd8l37 #
• Finally! It's about time! RT @shane_76: @TeamHallnNass there. just for you. even though, um, i've never met you. #
• I love these! or my company thinks I do. RT @shiitake: no-motion – 1. A promotion without a raise or bonus. http://bit.ly/jP19b #
• Horrible idea. VWs are about to get ugly! RT @nytimeswheels: VW Will Design for America, Says Chief Designer http://bit.ly/4oE61v #
• Hear hear! RT @bgluckman: @michaelbanovsky @bentoboxx Saying you dislike the G37S is saying you dislike pizza and sex. #carchat #
• after seeing LaCross, pretty accurate. RT @michaelbanovsky: Maybe it should be… Buick: "Something to believe in" #carchat #
• I like @burnoutradio 's idea: Buick needs to take the Kappa platform from Solstice, re-body it as Buick. #carchat #
• what are you guys using instead of tweetgrid? it sucks tonight #carchat #
• I almost bought an S4 instead of the G35 sedan. S4's in my range were a bit higher mileage than I wanted though. #carchat #
• my G35 sedan w/ intake & borla exhaust sounds like heaven @joelfeder But boy do I love the exhaust note out of that VQ #carchat #
• yeah, good cond should be closer to 30k @mikejuergens E46 M3 for under $20k?? Must be beat to hell and have lots o' miles #carchat #
• the 1-series is a completely pointless car. a blast to drive, but pointless. #carchat #
• so for how long is @michaelbanovsky banned? #carchat #
• Now obviously if one doesn't fit comfortably in a car, it's not going to be very highly regarded. understandable. #carchat #
• Greatness. RT @AutoBlogNews: Funny Car Commercial of the Day: Fiat versus the bicycle http://bit.ly/4NYNa #
• JACKPOT! RT @TeamHallnNass: RARE Hamthrax reverse attack! :@)~ RT @SpeedSportLife Speeding Ticket Karma http://bit.ly/15rKXS #
• RT @TeamHallnNass: Our latest #Dustball Rally 1500 recap – Chapter 13 – We Really Are Hall & Nass! http://teamhallnnass.wordpress.com #
• New article online at http://www.ReflectionsOfTheDrive.com – Happy Hour with the new Buick Lacrosse #
• Great read for all photogs! RT @SpeedSportLife: RT @JThawley: pre Petit Le Mans photo zen http://bit.ly/WiXhw flash wankers need not a pply #
• about to take wife & munchkin to Addison Oktoberfest for beer and pics of German car show. hmm, that could be interpreted wrong #
• RT @breakingauto: 370Z is first all-new Nissan design since HQ relocation to Tennessee, which explains why it looks "catfish-like" #
• Automotive photography #ff – @drivingimages @JThawley @willroegge #
• 5yrs? depressing @AsianMartin Txt from my friend Jonny in NYC: "…haven't driven my G35 in 5yrs, just sits in the carpark, does gas rot?" #
• ha! Is that @Autoline's John McElroy narrating? @michaelbanovsky: I wonder if this works on people…ON THEIR FACE! http://bit.ly/VkKHQ #
• Ack! Dont scare me like that! Poor 350z! RT @shane_76: @trentor_drive just for you. http://twitpic.com/i7y6b #
• 7th inning stretch! http://twitpic.com/i8yzn #
• me want. RT @AutoBlogNews: More fodder for the Cadillac CTS-V Sportwagon rumormill http://bit.ly/3tzh2J #
• RT @TexasDPS_PIO: Arrr mateys! If ye plan to drink some grog in honorrr of Talk Like a Pirate Day, be sure to designate yer soberrr driv … #
• New article on http://www.ReflectionsOfTheDrive.com/ -Follow the Nation of Go! @NationOfGo #
• I need to stop doing Twitter searches for G35. I'm becoming embarrassed to own one. #Infiniti #
• A good night. Watching Survivorman w/ a beer & son on verge of crawling & pulling up to stand http://twitpic.com/idift #
• Some movies are harder to watch after you have kids…like Transporter 2. Still great though #
• 1st rule when entering a man's car: Respect a man's car. A man respects you." #
• 2nd rule when entering a man's car: "Greet the man." 3rd Rule: Seatbelt #
• Bumper sticker of the day: Sure Marines are a dept. of the Navy. We're the men's dept. #
• Just got around to watching Community from Thurs night. Hilarious! #
• DirecTV install scheduled tomorrow. So long & good riddance to #TWC, you giant, steaming pile of crap. I hope you go bankrupt. #
• Headed to a nighttime photography workshop. Hoping it's more than basics. Should be cool area at least #

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