The New York Police Department will be modifying 58 of their 35 mpg Nissan Altima hybrid vehicles. The reason behind this is because officers are complaining that when they get out of their seat, their gun handles press “painfully into their hips”.

The move will be costing around $1,100 USD of tax payer’s money per vehicle to make the change, according to Albert Becker, a deputy inspector and executive officer of the department’s support services,bringing the total to a whopping $63,800 USD.

“There have been no documented instances, no emergency situations, in which they [officers] got stuck,” said Inspector Becker.

via New York Times

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Pictured above is the fender of Rolls-Royce’s forthcoming Phantom Hybrid. But wait, Rolls-Royce hasn’t said anything about a Phantom Hybrid, have they? Nope, that’s because what you see above probably isn’t a Phantom Hybrid.

Does the hybrid badge in the picture look familiar? It should, because its the same exact badge GM currently slaps on their hybrid vehicles. According to Autoblog the driver apparantly calims the car was given to a VIP by Rolls-Royce for testing.

Is that the truth? Probably not, it seems a lot more likely that the driver just felt like playing a joke on the unsuspecting public, pryed the hybrid logo (or pruchased) off an existing automobile and had it put onto their Phantom. Then again, I could be wrong, but until Rolls-Royce says anything of a hybrid, this should be viewed as nothing more than a joke.

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Tesla is pround to announce that their NYC debut store will officially open this Friday, July 17th at 511 W. 25th Street.

AutoBlogGreen reports that the store will showcase Tesla’s all-new 2010 Roadster along with the Roadster Sport. What’s more, Bank of America has announced that they will be providing Tesla with financing that will be sure to provide some security for potential buyers.

This is great news for Tesla as they begin to open stores all over the world. Any bets on where a Tesla store will pop up next?

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Now here is an unforunate and ironic story — Apparantly a NY resident by the name of George Morales died in his minivan while parked under the Brookly-Queens Expressway. His death expectedly took place in the beginning of May as the man’s daughter, Jennifer Morales, reported him missing around that time.

Now, this is sad and all but the ironic part is despite housing a dead man, NYPD officers wrote him parking tickets until he was found when the car was going to be towed.

Unless this man was laying down in the back, how could an NYPD officer have not seen a dead body sitting in the drivers seat? The world may never know.

Read (Jalopnik)

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Despite the recession, car manufacturing giant Chrysler was recently included in the list of the 2009 list of 25 noteworthy companies. This annual list is comprised of companies the magazine’s editors believe “are rising diversity-management leaders and are close to earning spots on The DiversityInc Top 50 companies list and have strong potential to be named to the Top 50 list next year.”

This is the fourth consecutive year Chrysler has been included on either of these two distinguished leadership lists.

Both the DiversityInc Top 50 list and the 25 Noteworthy Companies list were announced March 12 in New York City. Selections for the lists are based on empirical data submitted in The 2008 DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity survey.

(Source) Press

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