This one goes out to all the car lovers out there, I guess this is my other side…Gangsta!

p.s. You can AKS me about any slang word or car you don’t get in this song of Luda… you have to check it out on Youtube 2 miles an hour

Yeah.. we gon’ send this one out to e’rybody that put mo’ into they cars than they do they relationship

Let’s ride

Two miles an hour, so everybody sees you

It’s get out, put my pedal to the flo’ and let’s roll! Yesss, 7 cars, 8 cribs and ain’t a damn thing changed, I’m still pumpin 10 kickers, still grippin the grain

Still candy in the paint, still ridin them thangs. And most my folks would say I’m happy but I still feel pain, Until I, jump in my ride, that’s my only escape

Me and my automobile’s got these neighbors screamin, “Gimme a break!”

It’s a pity how we turn our city into obstacle course, Don’t be mad cause I can’t hold my 500 horses: Lamborghinis and Porsches, Ferraris and Vipers

I’ma wipe the seats witcho’ drool then rub the hood with a diaper, Television on the gas tank, the fuel make the ass stank

I MEAN to be rude, my bass tubes are in a glass tank, Go strap your seatbelts on, go put your money up, Go put your life on the line, go put your honey up

Go spread the word, run and tell all the boys, Time to play or better yet it’s time to bring out them toys

We goin Assign your name in the streets (sign your name in the streets)

Yo, one of my ways of releasin tension while I’m releasin some steam, Even if I just put a fresh coat of wax on I’m makin sure the slippers is clean

The 26’s is mean, shut down the block, nigga picture the fiends.My system supreme, you can feel the knock, just picture the scene.The chickens just scream, whole crew ballin they sick of my team, We gettin the cream, I’m through hollerin, I’m livin my dream, I’m black with a scheme, won’t stop until that fat lady sings

And yeah it’s actual and factual what my faculty brings a car show for whatever we slide and wherever we glide

You can keep your rules and regulations man cause we don’t abide, And we lookin alive, Mercedes Benz, 6 or the 5 In a Beamer, Lexus or Ac’, we don’t know how to act when we drive and I fiend for the ride, I lay back and lean to the side Onlookers and turnin heads is all that’s seen through his eyes, I’m breezin on by, and no doubt, it’s easy to fly,But it’s even better when you slow down or ease to the side

and go I’m ridin up in, GTO’s, and fo’-fo’-two’s Grand Prixs, S-S’s cause we so so cool Ridin Regals or the ‘llacs, we in Chevelles and Verts, Skylarks, motorcycles, ATV’s with the works Malibus and Camaros, T-Birds and Novas,Escalades, Navigators, Expeditions and Rovers, H-2’s and Denalis, pickup trucks with the beams, Crown Vics, Monte Carlos, even Cutlass Supremes are goin Assign your name in the streets (sign your name in the streets)

Ludacris.

You do know that cars tend to reflect a certain personality, and eventually you end up buying the personality that replicates your lifestyle, your way of doing things, your ideals, an extension to your dreams, your choice means something.

I have been a fan of cars for more than 30 years, give or take a decade. Ever since I saw or knew what a car was, it was love at first sight. Cars have been on my attention span longer than anything I can remember. They say to be an expert at something you need 7 years, I guess I know a thing or two.

At the age of 17 I was driving a Nissan 280ZX brand new in manual, while I could only drive automatic! A year or so later I was asked by a friend what do you think of a bentley I want to buy one from London? I said buy a Ferrari, he bought the Bentley at age 16. At that young age i knew that people are what they drive.

Driving, watching, even washing cars for a living and reading thousands of reports on all makes and models from the 60’s to this day has given me a kind of 360 degree into the auto field and its progress over the years. It is possible to pick a car from history and say this is the companies next big hit, like the bug for instance at VW, the 350Z at Nissan, the Phantom & Maybach from Rolls Royce & Mercedes Benz respectively.

Over the years a certain consumer and branding sense has evolved into what each car is telling the world. Each car has a story to tell, and when you buy it, you become part of it. And if you dig deeper into what I am saying, you will find out that this is the simple case and idea behind every car.

From the thousands of advertisements and branding campaigns, from all the stuff I have read, from all the programs, magazines, and personal experience and driving quite a few, I give you today a quick and fast analysis of as much cars as possible for this tight space and what each one is saying. The cars should cover as much demographic scale as possible and not all makes are here, but it should give you an idea, and if you mix and match you would get better results.

First: The categories/segments/sizes in the market today are basically the following:

Economy, mid size sedans, full size sedans, SUV’s, sport/coupe, and recently crossovers like the BMW X6 model and the new Cadillac SRX. My breakdown is a bit different, I use my own methodology and naming to make things easier to digest and analyze the drivers behind each wheel.

Blend in: Driver wants or is/has; Quality driven. Check in a pocket. I’m here until I can buy another better expensive car. Wants more for less. Rising star status. Loves change. Cars like: Toyota, Nissan’s,Hyundai & Mazda.

ADC-Americas Dream Club: Driver wants or is/has:Believes in the good old days. Belongs to a large group of free spirit people. Sprit & dream driven. Pushes on through. Outgoing & daring soul.Bang for buck. Cars like the Chevy’s, Cadillac’s, Fords, other GM & Chrysler & Dodge.

I deserve the best: Driver wants or is/has:Success. HIghest engineering standards & quality. Precise & clear. Know what they want. Loves the social status. Competitive spirit. Cars like the German’s, BMW, Mercedes Benz, Audi basically, VW is somewhere else.

Its my life!: Driver wants or is/has: I like me. yes! I’m different & unique. Does not like to taken as just another face. A flair for passion to a certain country. I drive my beliefs & views. Here you find the VW’s, Citroen, Volvo, Renault & Alfa Romeo.

Richie Rich status: Driver wants or is/has: I’m rich and you better know it. Yes my car costs as much as your dream.My other car is a place in Monaco bumper sticker. I love life to the max. Only the best of the best surrounds me. Status king. Man made wonders include Bentley,Jaguar, Aston Martin, Phantom, Maybach.

Exotica: Driver wants or is/has: Exotic kiwi status. Screams Made it!. Important playful person.Look at me little girls & boys love me as well as their envious parents. Loves art. Has a passion for passion itself. Flamboyant personality. Masterpieces include Buggati, Maserati, Ferrari, Porsche, Lamborghini and few more.

Go anywhere anytime: Driver wants or is/has: Move out of my way all over his face. No obstacles stand in my way and where I want to go or do. I am free. Demands to be many people in one body. Hates bullies. The big boys include all your Jeeps, Range Rover’s, Nissan Patrol, Toyota Land Cruisers and Hummers, BMW X6 & Porsche Cayenne, Mercedes lineup and others.

The fast & Furious Young: Driver wants or is/has: Freedom. Energy.Can do attitude. Daring. Does not mind what people think. Expresses oneself in fashion. Fast and lets do it attitude. Very playful. They include:Audi, Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini, BMW and Nissan’s GTR and 350Z, Chevy’s new Retro Camaro, Mustang and a few others from new competition.

Bonus: Some drivers have allies and enemies by default. For instance the Nissan drivers look down on the Toyota ones, only because their machines are made for real drivers, the Toyota drivers are a bit on the shy side of life in this case, they blend in with other cars, nissan do not, the scream in your face design & power.

This will also move into supporting football teams, by the very detailed analysis of several segments of team rivals you find that the segments still stand solid, meaning the Nissan drivers if in a car fan club will by default fall into the same teams supporting! this is a pure personal wild call without any supporting data only personal views and asking hundreds of questions to a vast majority of people.

What would happen if an F-16 or a new Jumbo Jet landed in the time of the Romans, or the Pharoe’s or even before or surprised Jenkis Khan during his domination?What would the look on their faces be when they thought their invention of gun powder was the new might and you nuked them? OK that’s mean, how about I take on a whole army with one machine gun and some grenades?

What if I showed them a trick or two with my little toy planes and laser pointers, or stunned them with a Hummer truck, ran them over with a 1940 Panza Tank during one of the stupid wars to take more ground? How about introducing a TV with a DVD player with real people playing a sport which will only be known after another 1000 or so years?

What if I take a photo of them and show them what they look like, how about I introduce the mirror and then shortly after that introduce creams and cosmetics, the Hair brush and comb, the scissors, the electric shaver, the perfume… now you would have to start think marketing here, would it actually be too early for manhood? maybe they liked their stink, they loved their hairy bodies, the ugly nose was fashionable, and so forth.

Now lets dive deeper, if your an average human, you know the house fly, that little pest that comes in and sits on your favorite food or warms itself with your coffee in a cold room, well imagine the technical one made by humans. Now take that and take it only 100 years back to 1910 what do you think will happen to the guys behind the innovations you enjoy today?

What about the small and big creatures we keep finding on our planet? the ones that cant see but have headlights to lure smaller creatures for survival? we still don’t know, but insist on knowing more and more, it never ends, and if it does then you just started to get the big  picture. They say innovate, don’t imitate, irrelevant yet so powerful in its deep meanings.

How about the satellite this and the satellite that? remember back in the 80’s the large formats of videos and arcade games? well how would you like to walk around back then as a teenager with a mobile phone that has it all and so. so much more stuff? What would the fancy cameras and KODAK do when you slap them with a digital photo? And how about that famous TV producer and Hollywood gang do when you dig out of your purse a video camcorder the size of a pack of cigarettes? what would MP3 do to the music industry in the 70’s 80’s and 90’s forget mozart and the other bunch of amazing musicians.

Now when we hold our breath and dive a bit more, i want you to capitalize on this day & ages technological breakthrough’s in medicine and saving people. What would the grandaddy of modern day science Leonardo Da Vinci do with all his breakthroughs, I guess he would be a happy man knowing that he led us so far with so little, great man.

Now lets take a thing we only say WOW! when we see a new model and move on with our day. Back in the early 1900’s or even in the wild wild west days, or take it back a bit to the days of the glorious warriors who rode horses as a mean of fast travel, and you guessed right, drive by them in a Range Rover sport or even a speed bike, forget that maybe just cruise by in a laid back Harley. Would they drop dead in fear?

From telling the time to travel, from our modern day science labs to this computer I type on, from the communication tools we complain about to the small italian espresso machine in my living room, from the iphone to the invention of sushi, take a leap of faith into the future and whatever you have today will be tomorrows joke.

We should be thankful for the wishful thinking of our ancestors and everyone in between, we should thank the thinkers, the believers, the funders, the users, the complainers who made things better, we should thank the pessimists and the optimists, the eager beavers and the thrill seekers, the people who swam against the rising tide, the brave boys that took the lead into the unknown should be recognized not only in text books but in daily newspapers to remind the new generation of what it takes to move on in this mysterious world, we should embed the spirit of evolution in every thing we do, we should ask on a continuos basis: what next?” were do we go from here? were are we headed? and keep moving.

Never underestimate the power of questioning, there is no such thing as stupid questions and ideas, they all mean something, in the end.

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out. Max Plank

Back in the days when we liked a song and never knew the name of the artist or song had serious problems, especially when your a teen and want to impress your peers! We used to go to the music shop and try and make the seller who never spoke a word of english in his life try and know what the hell we are talking about.

We would make stupid sounds to try and get the guy to familiarize himself with the song, it worked at a rate of 30% ( do not ask me how I came up with that percentage), he would then start to figure it out and we would walk away looking like retards.

Today, my friends we have something so fascinating that i thought i would love to share with you, for those who know excuse my late response and finding, for those who don’t… you will love me! SHAZAM is a software that actually listens to the song on that radio station, TV or ipod and hook up to the net, search for the song and tell you everything about it, where to buy it and how to download it! all on your phone.

Excuse me but if that ain’t cool what is?

In the old days it was hard, today it is getting cooler and cooler, imagine having to smell those perfumes online? get that cash on your pc? never leave home unless you really want to?

WOW!

Abracadabra I wanna reach out & grab ya!

Excuse me while I make my fast exit today, a great game on TV and its a WEEKEND here!

mamdooh.alradadi

me@mamdoohalradadi.com

Have you ever wondered why there used to be two keys for each car sold in the world? Well have we come a long way since. If you owned a car the thing called “peace of mind” was an option. You would have to fiddle around and try several keys before you find the one that opens the trunk or the front glove compartment!

Why not make keys that dissolve after a year? Well I guess it was too early for me to complain then, the first cars had no keys, they cranked them from the front.

• Cadillac used to try and be unique and give you 2 gold plated keys, woo cool, still two!
• Then I guess came the germans proved their point with a one key car, Voila.
• The world was amazed and suddenly thought! Hey the Germans must be onto something? let’s all make one key cars.
• Suddenly car keys had little lights that could show you where to place the key, instead of scratch the paint around it.
• Then someone said “ will you look at that!, Why not put lights under the door handles? and the light key was history.
• Along came the key that could do many things. This Key could open the compartment inside the car, the other one could pop the trunk.
• Man made great strides forward when the multi function key came out later in the century, long after Henry Ford said Black was the only color available, but you can still have any other color( When we make them). This key could unlock the car, pop the trunk, lock the doors, show a little light to show you more just under the door mirrors, some could even honk your horn to scare off the little brats and cats.
• As man made cars became more competitive, someone decided to give you a key, but let you get in the car with keyless entry! wow! you get close to the car and it opens up as if it knows you, well it does. Inside these cars you push a button and your off.
• The keys were BIg now they are smaller, then they made them BIG again.
• Some are square with no key apparent, you press a button and out comes the key!
• Then came the thumb print entry.
• The world is suddenly introduced to eye recognition entry.
• Fast forward and the car automatically comes to you when you think car, in your after sales brain implanted key.

Do you think soon we will get cars with DNA recognition starting capabilities?Why was the key invented? Don’t they leave their cars open in movies? Ok so people do actually steal our cars, so we lock them. Did you see the amount of technology that goes into keys today, remember that scene in gone in 60 seconds, the one about the mercedes keys, far out!.

So keys do evolve, like many other things in life. As we demand more, the smart makers make the move. In some cases they exceed our expectations, those are the leaders of today in any given industry.

Remember how it was an option to have cup holders in cars?

Mamdooh Al-Radadi

me@mamdoohalradadi.com

OK so the Saudi Football team ain’t that great and they kind of remain a mystery to many countries around the globe. Yes they did do well in some distant leagues and made it to the world cup back then and are still suffering, who cares when you’re playing PS3?

Honestly we all choose the best teams from countries and leagues to kick the other guys ass and eventually call it my team.Now what’s really funny and all the people that do play the game have come across is the names they give our team, I have attached a picture of the screen showing our players names and tried to figure out if they are african?asian?or just plain aliens? they managed to combine names from different countries and said…you know what no one will care.Check them out and give me an idea of what went wrong? did they actually take a moment to look up the teams names or ask our sport authorities about it and our guys just said forget them they are a bunch of kids with a video game? or was it done intentionally to piss us off?

My favorite names from our players in order:

Oslo Hamet, Agi Pakarani, Argo… I mean how do you come up with such magical comical names?

Should we consult with our people to talk to their people? or would we be considered wasting time? I don’t know but football is our #1 sport and our youth make up some 60% of the population and we have never heard of those people that make up for the Saudi Team.

I can imagine me walking around town with a number 7 football t-shirt with ARGO on the back….I am sure it would raise some eyebrows, you know what I think I will do that, and when asked I would reply ” what do you know? go check the name on playstation dummy!”