Is Apple's iCar in a German auto magazine? Probably not.

Sure, we've heard rumors about a possible iCar before, but it's not every day that a German auto magazine (Autobild, in this case) throws some wacky VW concept with an iPod touch floating above it on its cover. We know that the two companies have collaborated in the past, with old Jobsy and Volkswagen head Martin Winterkorn supposedly sipping brandy and regaling each other with tales of their salad days, but up until now the closest we've seen to an actual product was that Space Up! blue concept interior from back in November of last year. Will you finally have the perfect set of wheels to dock your iPhone on the go? Doubtful... but feel free to dream.

[Via Autoblog]

[Neebs @ Jun 14th 2008 12:01AM]

Ah! It's Jason!

[solu @ Jun 14th 2008 12:25AM]

Friday the 13th...

[Neebs @ Jun 14th 2008 12:30AM]

I see, but it scared the hell of out me.

[Neebs @ Jun 14th 2008 12:33AM]

Best not create a spamchain for posting some random crap there. I still get some fool posting in this thread: http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/25/the-second-gen-iphone-3g-gps-only-slightly-thicker/

[Neebs @ Jun 14th 2008 1:14AM]

Ok, not even I dislike the Engadget-Apple love that much that I have to bitch about it in some poor bugger's comment thread.

[happy_penguin @ Jun 14th 2008 1:15AM]

Oh that bastard Ryan has been holding out on us... light the torches! Off with his head!!

[Tom @ Jun 14th 2008 1:19AM]

MarkD:
There's a "Contact Us" link on the right panel. Use it if you want certain news covered that isn't on Engadget. Posting irrelevant info under the first poster is unnecessary and annoying.

[ghotik @ Jun 14th 2008 1:54AM]

I'm just glad I'm not the only one seeing him!

[Brad @ Jun 14th 2008 2:23AM]

Awesome. Now I can get a $30,000 iPod accessory. Just what I always wanted.

[Hamidxa @ Jun 14th 2008 11:15AM]

MarkD,

Thanks again for the link, delivering news on what Engadget fails to mention due to an intrinsic Apple bias.

Nice to see Apple getting stomped by everyone and their cousins in the Laptop sector.

Only 4.6% of the laptop market, pathetic. :D

[Jon @ Jun 14th 2008 12:03AM]

The Jason crap is freaking me out

[Max Savin @ Jun 14th 2008 11:12AM]

oo Hai Jason!

[Matt @ Jun 14th 2008 2:12AM]

Heh, I didn't even notice it. I though he was an alien at first >_>. Nicely done, Engadget.

[Garst @ Jun 14th 2008 11:23PM]

Well done? He posted the post 3 minutes before midnight, so anyone east of pacific time wouldn't really get the link to the day.

[Jon @ Jun 14th 2008 12:04AM]

Your crap Comment is worst then any post , TooL

[Daniel Cheung @ Jun 14th 2008 12:05AM]

I noticed Jason on a few of the other Autoblog posts as well. Hacked perhaps?

[Jon @ Jun 14th 2008 12:11AM]

Friday the 13th .. Get it

[MeatPop @ Jun 14th 2008 12:11AM]

No it's deliberate, it's Friday the 13th, and well I think they've taken it a bit too far...

[Boodie @ Jun 14th 2008 12:12AM]

Check the date :)

[Striker @ Jun 14th 2008 12:46AM]

It's amazing that it is Friday the 13th, because everything has gone right today. I rescued a Husky, and essentially was handed two thousand dollars "to spend on anything that will benefit my education" in front of a few hundred people. Usually, the 13th drags on FOREVAR.

[Tom @ Jun 14th 2008 1:22AM]

My e-peen simply cannot compete with Striker's! Not worthy!

[Ghen @ Jun 14th 2008 12:08PM]

I ate a sandwich at lunch, it was pretty good. Well made.

[Jason Randazza @ Jun 14th 2008 12:09AM]

I've always wanted rear-facing fluorescent illuminated seats for my car.

[Haikibutsu @ Jun 14th 2008 12:11AM]

I actually had a dream Apple made cars.

They came in white or Black, they looked like 2003 infiniti G35s, but a bit more rounded.

[giantenemycrab @ Jun 14th 2008 12:12AM]

Ahh, the iCar. It costs $40k, gets 20 MPG, only goes up to 55 MPH(because no one needs to go faster, really), and only comes in white, or RED for $10k more.

[giantenemycrab @ Jun 14th 2008 12:18AM]

Oh, I forgot. You can't work on the car, you have to send it in to Apple if something goes wrong and it is locked onto only one gas station. If you go to another gas station you get penalized.

[Dave D @ Jun 14th 2008 12:24AM]

wow. I love apple, but that is freaking hysterical. nice one.

[Carl Vitullo @ Jun 14th 2008 12:26AM]

mcbunt, do us all a favor

kill yourself


then press your capslock key once.

[Hamidxa @ Jun 14th 2008 12:27AM]

Sounds about right, now watch the iFools line up to buy one.

[Haikibutsu @ Jun 14th 2008 2:59AM]

HIghest ranked is back!

[Michael LaFramboise @ Jun 14th 2008 3:07AM]

Old but still valid...

If Microsoft Made Cars...

1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.

2. Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.

3. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull over to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.

4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.

5. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive, but would run on only five percent of the roads.

6. The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single "This Car Has Performed An Illegal Operation" warning light.

7. The airbag system would ask "Are you sure?" before deploying.

8. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.

9. Every time a new car was introduced, car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again, because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.

10. Oh yeah, and last but not least . . . you'd have to press the "Start" button to turn the engine off!

[andres @ Jun 14th 2008 3:14PM]

dont forget about the icar shuffle. it has no windows and takes you to a random destination on its route list.

[Jon @ Jun 14th 2008 12:17AM]

Ok .. Your starting drama on Engadget by looking up old post.. Wow .. i am at a loss for words .. you my friend are amazing .. All bow down to the great McBUNT !

[Carl Vitullo @ Jun 14th 2008 12:24AM]

I GREATLY ENJOY THE USE OF THE CAPSLOCK KEY

[The Dude @ Jun 14th 2008 12:30AM]

Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill Nye The Science Guy.

NO WAI, I LUV TEH CAPS LOCK TOO DAWG.

[Carl Vitullo @ Jun 14th 2008 12:27AM]

WHOA

like, 5 comments were just deleted, including, but not limited to, every single post made by McBUNT.

therefore making all of my comments look dumb and out of place

[Ryan Block @ Jun 14th 2008 12:28AM]

Sorry man! I'd still prefer them gone.

[The Dude @ Jun 14th 2008 12:32AM]

I was wondering who McBUNT was. Did he miss the "L"? Because McBLUNT would've been a dank-ass name. I hereby claim it as an alias.

[happy_penguin @ Jun 14th 2008 1:33AM]

Hehehee... I wish I had seen what that clown said. :D

[Carl Vitullo @ Jun 14th 2008 11:10AM]

yeah, i don't really mind, he was being an idiot, it's just that all of my comments here relied on his stupidity...

[Striker @ Jun 14th 2008 12:33AM]

Is it just me, or did the Motorola article about half of R&D Division being cut disappear? When I go back to it from my iPod touch's history, it shows no article but a list of relevant articles. I really think that this censorship is getting to be too much, it is okay for that McBunt guy, but deleting whole articles without explanation is unacceptable.

[happy_penguin @ Jun 14th 2008 1:40AM]

Don't confuse self censorship with constitutional right. The editors here have the right to cut whatever they want whether or not you, I or anyone else likes it. This blog belongs to them.

[Striker @ Jun 14th 2008 1:50AM]

I'm just curious as to what happened to the article, that's all. I'm playing nice Chuck, because, after all I could just stare it out of them.

[David @ Jun 14th 2008 2:45AM]

maybe there was a caps overload

[Jon @ Jun 14th 2008 12:34AM]

Sorry Ryan for that outburst at McBUNT .. I will probably lose my job one day because i read Engadget for 7.5 hrs out of my 8 hr work day .. And i hate when someone attacks a post .. any post is a good post in my eyes

[Steffen Jobbs @ Jun 14th 2008 1:02AM]

I hear that they're making this Apple vehicle twice as fast for half the price. It's going to be called the iCar 3G. The only problem is that you have to take it an Apple store in order to have it activated. This car will be released in over 70 countries and will probably end up as the best selling smartcar of all times. The only problem now is that every other car company is going to copy it and then arrogantly call the copies iCar killers.

Whether iPhone killers or iCar killers, they'll never succeed, so they might as well quit while they're ahead.

Apple iCar = MEGAWIN

[happy_penguin @ Jun 14th 2008 1:44AM]

It's not a smartcar because it can't copy/paste!!


Microsoft made something similar which is bigger but it has FIVE GODDAMN PROJECTORS!!

(...and I still don't know why either of these points matter)

[roman.kim @ Jun 14th 2008 1:20AM]

The auto industry is already crowded with many big players, I think they should go ahead with that iRack instead.

[Tom @ Jun 14th 2008 1:27AM]

I dunno... the iRack looks like something we shouldn't be involved with.

[vgm106 @ Jun 14th 2008 1:50AM]

Steve Jobs drinks brandy?....That's spooky! (not Jason)