Auto Almanac – Sept 29, 2014

Overview

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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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1970-’73 Camaro – FineLines Sept 29, 2014

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

During the early part of the 1970s, performance cars would be hot, although perhaps not as fast or quick as they were at the peak of the musclecar era in 1970. By the mid-1970s, speed and horsepower would be fond memories.
The second-generation Camaro made its debut early in 1970 (production problems delayed introduction from fall of 1969) with much acclaim from the automotive press. It had a buff new body and an all-new high-performance 1970 1/2 (remember, it was late) Z/28 package.

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2016 Acura NSX
AutoGraph Sept 29, 2014

AutoGraph

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

What it is: Weekly automotive infographics that inform, enlighten and delight readers. Our high-impact infographics add visual appeal and variety to your auto-section pages. Wheelbase’s designers are some of the best in the business with numerous awards for dynamic newsgraphics and page design. AutoGraph will show your readers, with engaging visual style, what they want and need to know about their automobiles as well as today’s trends. These professional, useful and intelligent graphics will help raise the profile of your auto section.

Product specifications

Designed by Wheelbase Media’s editorial staff using Macromedia Freehand (for backward compatibility for most systems) as well as Adobe Photoshop.
Mac or PC use.
Files included in your download: native Freehand file; Freehand EPS file (which is how to edit the AutoGraph with Adobe Illustrator) and a 300 dpi CMYK low-compression jpg file.
Print size: 8 inches wide, 6 inches tall, scalable about 10 percent up or down.
AutoGraph uses typical system fonts for compatibility.

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Overhaulit Part 32
Boost?

Overview

If you are not a member of the media, you can still check out a limited selection of our stories available on our Web site www.theoctanelounge.com

Description

There are more reasons to go with supercharging or turbocharging than just the power. Should you? There’s the power, yes, but for a street engine, adding a supercharger is often a smarter and safer bet than going with a giant, fire-breathing engine that doesn’t have a supercharger. In case you’re wondering, a supercharger is a belt-driven air compressor that forces in extra air and fuel to make more power than the engine could on its own.

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Profiles, Ayrton Senna – Sept 29, 2014

Overview

If you are not a member of the media, but still wish to read this and other feature stories from Wheelbase Media, visit www.shiftweekly.com to subscribe to Auto Shift Weekly newsmag, available for your Apple iPad or for your home PC or laptop in pdf format. 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

“There is no one driver I wanted to be more than Ayrton Senna,” former Formula One champion Michael Schumacher said a decade later, after breaking Senna’s victory total and then breaking down on the podium at the thought of Senna’s death. “When it comes to racing, he will always be the best.”
Teamed with legendary driver Alain Prost, Senna won eight races and his first World Championship in 1988 – just four years into his F-1 career. In 162 races entered, he stood on the podium 80 times.

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Embrace your inner pack rat,
just do it somewhere else
Full Throttle Sept 29, 2014

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

What’s in your trunk?
C’mon, be truthful, this is important. Remember, quality columns such as this offer only the finest, most in-depth quizzes on the newspaper market today; as I’m sure you already know from similar surveys, questions must meet the strictest scientific standards and offer profound psycho-sociological value.
So be honest. We’re watching . . . really.

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2015 Volvo S60 – Sept 29, 2014 AutoPilot

Overview

Description

It’s becoming rarer and rarer to find a vehicle with more than four cylinders under the hood. While it feels like smaller engines are being forced upon us as government fuel-economy regs become tighter and tighter, Volvo is coming at it with a different attitude: it doesn’t matter how many cylinders there are.

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Overhaulit Part 33
Bad wiring

Overview

If you are not a member of the media, you can still check out a limited selection of our stories available on our Web site www.theoctanelounge.com

Description

Why do we think that rechroming bumpers takes priority over the safe and reliable operation of our vehicles? After all, chrome bumpers don’t catch fire, do they. You wouldn’t think that 12 measly volts would cause more than a spark. You’ve stuck your tongue to a nine-volt battery as a kid and no big deal, right? But to think that 12 volts can take down a whole car?

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Overhaulit Part 34
Trans-fusion

Overview

If you are not a member of the media, you can still check out a limited selection of our stories available on our Web site www.theoctanelounge.com

Description

On the road, the “transfusion” made for a completely different car with the overdrive gear, and the low first gear helps the car launch easily without having to slip the clutch all that much. Shifts are crisp and the clutch pedal is smooth-smooth-smooth. But the T5 was designed for a 225-horsepower V8 from 20 years ago. Can it live behind our new 482-horsepower engine?

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Overhaulit Part 35
It’s all in the tank

Overview

If you are not a member of the media, you can still check out a limited selection of our stories available on our Web site www.theoctanelounge.com

Description

Converting to fuel injection costs us double what we think it will. Bolting on new parts usually has a ripple effect. Make that more of a tsunami effect. Buying big brakes means that you might have to go wheel shopping and also install a new master cylinder and parking-brake hardware. Installing headers likely means installing new pipes and mufflers, too.