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Ferruccio Lamborghini – July. 22, 2013

Overview

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Use: Media professionals demanding top-quality automotive content for print/Web.Professional artwork, editing.

What it is: Cars are nothing without the people who create them and those who own, collect and preserve them. Profiles is designed to bring prominent, interesting car people to your readers’ attention. Fun, informative and masterfully designed, like most Wheelbase features, Profiles comes to you as a Quark Xpress/Adobe InDesign module that is completely editable for any space within your print pages or automotive Web site.

Product specifications

Mac and PC page layout with accompanying text and art files for maximum work flexibility.
High-resolution artwork suitable for print.
Includes Photoshop layers file of main art, where applicable.
Multi-platform page layout opens with either Quark Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
Layout is 8×21.5 inches (for newspaper use), with some depth variation from week to week, but can be reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces.
PDF of layout included.
About 850 words: separate text file included.
Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to match your style.

Description

Maybe if Ferruccio Lamborghini had not had that little clutch problem with his Ferrari 250 GT, and maybe if the problem had been solved to his satisfaction, and maybe if a heated Lamborghini had not run face-first into an insulted Enzo Ferrari that day in 1961, then maybe – just maybe – the red bull wouldn’t snort today.
Perhaps it would still plow: the first Lamborghini was a tractor, after all.

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1934 Ford – FineLines July 22, 2013

Overview

Use: Media professionals demanding top-quality automotive content for their print products and/or Web sites. Professional artwork, editing.

What it is: Many of you asked if we could put our expertise to work to create a feature that covers not just classic cars, but those vehicles that have left an indelible mark on car culture. The Fine Lines series examines significant vehicle marques, their backgrounds and their contributions to the history of the automobile. All this, with real artwork.

Product specifications

Mac and PC page layout with accompanying text and
art files for maximum work flexibility.
About 850 words: separate text file included.
Layout is 8×21.5 inches (newspaper), but can be
reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces.
PDF of layout included.
High-resolution artwork suitable for print.
Includes Photoshop layers file of main art.
Multi-platform page layout opens with either Quark
Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with
standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to
match your style.

Description

Imagine heading down to your Ford dealer to pick out a new 2013 Fusion.
On the options sheet, however, you find a check box that will give your grocery-getter the 662-horsepower V8 straight from the Mustang Shelby GT 500.
Now, imagine paying about the same amount for that car as you would for a run-of-the-mill V6 version. Sounds absolutely crazy, right?
Well, back in the early 1930s, that was the public’s reaction when word leaked out that Henry Ford was planning to introduce a V8 engine to his line of low-priced cars and trucks.

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Auto Almanac – July. 22, 2013

Overview

Use: Media professionals demanding non-traditional and interesting automotive content for print/Web.

What it is: A treasure trove of essential automotive quick hits. After designing a highly successful Almanac for one of our daily-newspaper customers, we wondered if we could put together an automotive version. As a result, your new Auto Almanac contains trivia, concept-car spy info, auction notes and even games. All along the way, we invite readers to interact and submit their own ideas.

Product specifications

Mac and PC page layout with accompanying text and art files for maximum work flexibility.
High-resolution artwork suitable for print.
Multi-platform page layout opens with either Quark Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
Layout is the standard one-column newspaper format, but can be reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces and shapes.
PDF of layout included.
About 600 words: NO?separate text file included.
Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to match your style.

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Lexus ES 350: 2007-’12 – July. 22, 2013

Overview

Description

The Lexus ES-series entry-luxury sedan was launched in 1990 as the ES 250, joining the more premium member of Toyota’s upscale division, the LS 400 sedan. The ES 300 replaced the 250 in 1992. A revamped and slightly larger ES 300 followed the original in 1997 and was upgraded for 2002 and for 2007 model years. Physically similar to the Toyota Camry, the ES 350 also shared that car’s optional 268-horsepower 3.5-liter V6 as its sole powerplant. For both versions, power was transmitted to the front wheels via a six-speed automatic transmission. A new and more stylish ES 350 for the 2013 model year maintained the same powertrain.

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AutoCross July 22, 2013

Overview

Description

Use: Media professionals demanding top-quality automotive content for their print products and/or Web sites. Professional artwork, editing.

What it is: For the auto thrill-seeker, this is one of the most unique additions to your publication. The International AutoCross will test the knowledge of your readers with trivia that scours automobile parts bins, dealer showrooms and the history of people and places that have made the automobile what it is today. Retain readers and have them coming back on a regular basis for more. Like Wheelbase’s other features, International AutoCross comes to you formatted and ready to use.

Product specifications

Due to the highly complicated graphic nature of this product, we do not yet offer a version that can be played online. Instead, visitors to your Web site can print out the crossword and play it at their leisure. Vote yes to having a playable online version by clicking here.
High-resolution 300 dpi jpg CMYK file suitable for printand Web. Postscript file also included for even higher resolution and no bitmapping of fonts.

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Shift! July 15, 2013

Overview

Use: Media professionals demanding automotive content on technology and vehicles designed to reduce pollution and save readers money.

What it is: The first “green” feature. One of our most popular new weekly features takes a look at the auto world from the unique perspective of fuel efficiency and technology as it relates to the environment, from hydrogen, hybrids, electric power and other alternative methods of propulsion. “Shift” is exactly that: a shift in thinking. What will the vehicle of tomorrow look like? Your readers can find out today in Shift. This predesigned module can be used as-is or reconfigured to fit just about any space.

Product specifications

Mac and PC page layout with accompanying text and art files for maximum work flexibility.
High-resolution artwork suitable for print.
Includes Photoshop layers file of main “Shift” art.
Multi-platform page layout opens with either Quark Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
Layout is 8″x13″, but can be reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces.
PDF of layout included.
About 900 words: separate text file included.
Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to match your style.

Topics Covered

VW XL1 wows London, Goodwood: The world’s most fuel-efficient production hybrid car, Volkswagen’s futuristic XL1, took to the streets of London, England, recently, while a second model made its way to the famed Goodwood Festival of Speed to take pride of place on the Volkswagen stand, and to run in the event’s famous hill climb. The two-seat diesel-electric hybrid apparently achieves 313 mpg and emits just 33.6 grams of carbon dioxide per mile. The ultra-frugal and super-aerodynamic XL1, now in limited production, is made largely of carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer, while its drivetrain melds a two-cylinder 0.8-liter diesel engine with an electric motor. To boost aerodynamics, it forgoes exterior mirrors in favor of small cameras that transmit exterior images to interior displays.

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Rental Pony – The Octane Lounge – July 8, 2013

Overview

Description

Follow the automotive business long enough and everything that’s old becomes new again.
Since the reintroduction of the Chevrolet Camaro SS as a 2010 model, the old Ford-versus-Chevy “pony-car” wars have escalated to insane proportions, with the 2013 Chevrolet ZL1 and Ford’s Mustang-based Shelby GT500 leading the way. And for 2014 there will be an road-race-ready Camaro Z28 and an all-new 2015 Mustang is in the works.

Indeed, for muscle-car lovers, these are the good-old days and they just keep on getting better, or so it seems.

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Drowsy driving? Java is no substitute for sleep – Full Throttle, July 8, 2013

Overview

Use: Media professionals looking to diversify their automotive readership with women authors who provide their views on a wide variety of topics.

What it is: Courtney Hansen, America’s favorite Garage Girl and the former host of The Learning Channel’s Overhaulin’ auto makeover show, a new-book author and the host of Spike TV’s weekend “Power Block,” has teamed up with Wheelbase Communications for this exclusive column. If you’re looking to build more regular readership and to bring more women into the pages of your print publication and Web pages with the help of a friendly and outgoing automotive celebrity, this bi-weekly column that alternates with our own Rhonda Wheeler is a must.

Product specifications

About 800-900 words; Word text file plus high-resolution art files for print and Web use.
Mac and PC layout with accompanying text and art files for maximum work flexibility.
High-resolution artwork suitable for print.
Coming soon! Multi-platform page layout that opens with either Quark Xpress or Adobe Indesign.

Description

Hands up if you have ever driven home exhausted. Or anywhere exhausted.
We’re all spending more time working — and playing — harder and it’s time usually deducted from what should be spent sleeping. Trading in those 40 winks has turned us into a society of (cue intro dramatic music here) Drowsssssy Driverrrrrrrrs.

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550 Spyder – Legends, July 15, 2013

Overview

Description

The Porsche 550 Spyder established the German automaker as a legitimate constructor of performance street cars. After years of converting the cute little 356 model (above) for racing duty, Ferdinand Porsche set out to construct a purpose-built competition car, one that eventually found its way to the street and into infamy at the hands of movie star James Dean (right).

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The Auto Sleuth – July 8 , 2013

Overview

Use: Voted the best automotive news column available: you need it.

What it is: If you could have only one automotive feature, this should be it. At Wheelbase Communications, we’ve chosen to stay away from providing an automotive-news column until we could do it in a non-traditional way. And here it is: the Auto Sleuth. Our worldly gumshoe has his ear to the ground, digging up the latest news on everything from product launches and updates to names in the news. The column is solely driven by reader interest. No boring statistics or auto-company pap here, just the straight goods peppered with the Auto Sleuth’s commentary and speculative, gossipy-style.

Product specifications

Mac and PC print layout with separate text and art files for maximum work flexibility.
High-resolution artwork suitable for print.
Multi-platform layout opens with either Quark Xpress or Adobe Indesign.
Layout is 8×16 inches (newspaper), but can be reconfigured by your designer to fit most spaces.
PDF of layout included.
About 850 words: separate text file included.
Fonts are not included, but we attempt to stay with standard system fonts. If not, just change the fonts to match your style.