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Two years ago on Lifehacker, you learned how to install software without screwing up your computer in a virtual layer, set up your personal Wikipedia, and learned how to deal with internet meanies.

If filling out a web page form is just too much, now you can comment on Lifehacker posts via email. When you’re not logged in, an @ button appears next to each comment, as well as a “Comment on this post via email” link. Click it to dash off a message with your thoughts on the post. Like all first comments submitted to Lifehacker, your message is subject to approval before it shows up in the thread. If it is, you’ll get a randomly assigned user name for each comment-by-email after that. Of course, we won’t publish your address on site. Non-logged in readers, give it a try, and let us know what you think.

Two years ago on Lifehacker, you learned how to install software without screwing up your computer in a virtual layer, set up your personal Wikipedia, and learned how to deal with internet meanies.

If filling out a web page form is just too much, now you can comment on Lifehacker posts via email. When you’re not logged in, an @ button appears next to each comment, as well as a “Comment on this post via email” link. Click it to dash off a message with your thoughts on the post. Like all first comments submitted to Lifehacker, your message is subject to approval before it shows up in the thread. If it is, you’ll get a randomly assigned user name for each comment-by-email after that. Of course, we won’t publish your address on site. Non-logged in readers, give it a try, and let us know what you think.

Two years ago on Lifehacker, you learned how to install software without screwing up your computer in a virtual layer, set up your personal Wikipedia, and learned how to deal with internet meanies.

Filed under: Chicago Auto Show, Concept Cars, Podcasts, Spy Photos, Coupes, Sports/GTs, Trucks/Pickups, Audi, Chrysler, Dodge, HUMMER, Suzuki

Episode #86 of the Autoblog Podcast is well-caffeineated. We spend a good bit of time talking about the excitement that’s filled the Autoblog garage lately. Damon used a handily available Audi R8 as a chase car when we went to drive the Tesla Roadster, and Alex has been sampling the Subaru Tribeca and STI, as well as a rogue Volvo S80. John has been having a blissful month rocking the 1999 Oldsmobile Alero Coupe, too.

There’s lots of good car talk, and we take a detour into cupholder minutiae before getting to actual news. A few embargoes fell in front of the upcoming Chicago Auto Show. Car and Driver’s blatant cover poll opened the door for Challenger images. Subterfuge aside, the Challenger’s a knockout, despite its interior that’s granted refugee status to the Sebring’s trappings. Trucks will make some news at the Chicago show, and Truck Trend showed us the Hummer H3T and Suzuki Equator, and compact pickups are where we leave it. Until next time, thanks for listening!

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Filed under: Concept Cars, New York Auto Show, Suzuki

Click image for hi-res gallery of the Suzuki Kizashi

Hyundai is quickly proving with its Genesis luxury sedan that a lower-end Asian automaker can play in the V8-powered big leagues, and if the reports are to be believed, Suzuki wants in. The Japanese carmaker’s Kizashi concepts, unveiled in Frankfurt and Tokyo last year, proved popular enough for Suzuki to move ahead with production plans and target a late 2009 roll-out. But before it settles on what form the production version will take, Suzuki is reportedly preparing a third iteration to show at the New York Auto Show in March, and this one will be powered by a V8 driving all four wheels, compared to its turbodiesel and V6 predecessors. Whether there’s any truth to the reports will become evident as we weave through Manhattan traffic towards the Javits Center, so stay tuned.

[Source: AutoTelegraaf via Motor Authority]

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Filed under: Chicago Auto Show, Trucks/Pickups, Suzuki

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After this rendering of the Suzuki Equator pickup was published a bit early in the March/April issue of Truck Trend magazine and then scanned and published all over the internet, Suzuki decided it might as well let the public have a good luck at the truck instead of staring at a crappy scan. Thus, it has released the official rendering of the Equator we showed you yesterday. Based on the Frontier and to be built at the same factor, the Equator will likely cost a little less that its sibling from Nissan when it goes on sale in the U.S. We’ll have to wait until next week when we’re reporting from the 2008 Chicago Auto Show to bring you more details. But for now, click the pic above to enlarge.

[Source: Pickuptruck.com]

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Filed under: Chicago Auto Show, Trucks/Pickups, Suzuki

Truck Trend is quickly becoming a thorn in the side of a couple automakers, first by spilling the beans about the 2009 HUMMER H3T in its March/April issue, and now by revealing details about the new Suzuki Equator in the same issue. The rebadged Nissan Frontier is set to make its official debut next week at the Chicago Auto Show, and the illustration provided by Truck Trend is apparently a dead-ringer for the production model. We’ll have to wait until next week for all the details, but Jalopnik was kind enough to post a scan of the yet-to-be-released pickup. You’re looking at it.

[Source: Truck Trends via Jalopnik]

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