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Goodbye Bonbons (sorry, ladies), hello “Dibs.”

To promote their new frozen ice cream snack, Dreyer’s/Edy’s created “The World’s Littlest Ice Cream Truck” – actually, a specially-shaped Mini Cooper S. But more important to MacVroom readers is that this “ride” has been taken to the next level and Mac’d out!

Ron Canyon of Canyon Motors Shop in Culver City, California customized the car. To …

UPDATE: Unfortunately, it looks like Apple has cancelled this promo

Now is the time to get a Mac mini and do your own car install!

Apple recently announced that you can try a Mac mini for 30 days. If you don’t love it, you can always send it back! Hurry – the test drive ends on October 31, 2005.

What will you get?
Your Mac mini includes more than a dozen full-featured applications for emailing, instant messaging, browsing and more. …

Here’s the latest on our install…

We completely replaced the audio system in our Toyota MR2 project car, pulling out the 10-year-old Sony CD player (which was on its last leg) and the six factory speakers.

To keep the upgrade as simple and trouble-free as possible, we ordered all of our new components from Crutchfield. For those of you that don’t know the benefits of buying through Crutchfield, here are a few…

• Free expert advice to help select the

The September 2005 issue of MacWorld magazine includes a “Hot Mods” article on Mac mini auto installs and also mentions MacVroom.com. The article highlights a couple of the excellent Mac’d Rides that we have reported on here – Mike Feidler’s Mac mini Mini Cooper and Matt Turner’s VW GTI. If you subscribe to MacWorld magazine or are near a newsstand, check out the article. It is titled “Hot Mods” and is located in the “Mobile Mac” section on page …

Matthew Muelver sent us details on his Mac’d out Honda Ridgeline RTL. This cool looking truck starts with a 1.42GHz Mac mini with SuperDrive, 80GB hard drive, 512MB of RAM, AirPort Extreme and Bluetooth. A 7″ fully-motorized Xenarc 700M in-dash touch-screen is used as the systems display. Input is handled via a Bluetake BT500 Bluetooth mouse and a Think Outside Stowaway Bluetooth keyboard. Internet access is available via Bluetooth through his Palm Treo 650 cell phone.

Matthew is using the …