Orion's Colorado Gets A Makeover!

You might remember this Colorado from its debut two years ago at SEMA.... It sported the first (as far as we know) rotating subwoofer enclosure. Since it was making it's debut at the SEMA show in Vegas, the rotating woofers were meant to resemble a slot machine. It was an insane idea, and it slammed like crazy. Now the guys have decided to give the truck somewhat of a rebirth, sending it down to have world-class installer Calvin Thomas a shot at the beast. He loaded the Colo full of HCCA woofers, amps, and speakers in a very clean, very loud custom install. Follow the jump to check out our gallery and audio system list!

Orion Cobalt Yukon Flexes A Little Muscle

My buddy over at Orion just sent me a few pics of their newest demo, a pimped GMC Yukon, to celebrate and show-off the all-new Cobalt line and serve as a mobile demo for HD Radio. The new Cobalt line was first introduced during CES 2008 back in January, and features great look and sound for not a lot of dough. The Yukon's install features a pretty elaborate box and amp rack in the rear hatch, and can pound out the lows! Keep your eyes open as this truck should start making rounds through the show scene and stereo shops soon. If you've never had an opportunity to experience the CD sound quality of HD radio on a killer sounding audio system, then keep an eye out for this Yukon!

Check out a small gallery of the Yukon and the install after the jump!

Video: Ian "The Iceman" Pinder Hair Trick Demo

Our buddy Adam Raynard of the UK car audio site Talk Audio covered the Modified Nationals 2008 show across the pond and had a chance to shoot video of some girls getting a demo of Ian's crazy Vauxhall Astra van we showed you a few weeks ago  (you know, the one with six 15" HCCAs, 20 HCCA amps, 48 woofers, 48 tweeters....). According to Adam:

"Ian spent a large portion of his day allowing girls to experience the hair trick and we videoed a few. I reckon they are intense as any I’ve seen anywhere else. Check out me saying “No REALLY Put Your Fingers In Your Ears Girls!” and they do – a split instant before all hell breaks loose and their hair goes out two feet sideways and all over!"

Follow the jump to check out the video!

Contest: $10,000 Orion Give-Away!

I found out that Orion is running a pretty killer contest on their website. Hop on over to OrionCarAudio.com and sign up to enter a professionally-installed $10,000 Orion car audio system! Not a bad deal for a few minutes worth of work. You can deck your car out in all of the finest HCCA gear and get a pretty killer install for $10,000.... If you won, what would put in your car?

in the forums!

MINI to the Max!

This MINI Cooper was absolutely stuffed with gear from Sirius and Orion! An Alpine IDAX-001 handles multimedia with an NVE-N872A, and a Sirius Nav Traffic system was added to provide navigation and real-time traffic updates. An Orion Cobalt 800.1 sends power to a pair of Orion Cobalt 1245 subs, while a Cobalt 600.4 sends sound to multiple sets of Cobalt CO 650 components. Sirius also added a slew of satellite radio tuners for demo-ing the wares to gawkers, even mounting a few in the rear hatch! Props to Jason Schreyer of Directed for stuffing all this gear into this most compact of compacts! More pics after the jump!