Filed under: Trends, Etc.
Click above for an extensive photo gallery of the work in progress…
Polyurethane, the wonder-polymer used in everything from appliances and textiles to electronics and footwear, is apparently the car building material-of-choice for this “sculptor” in Lithuania. You’d recognize his particular mixture of the foam as the same type of messy stuff we […]
Filed under: Motorsports, Coupes, Sports/GTs, Dodge, Honda
We’ve driven the Honda Civic Si, and have found it to be an entertaining vehicle to attack some twisties. A drag racer, though, it is most assuredly not. Sure, offering just shy of two-hundred horsepower from such a small engine is impressive, but the distinct lack of torque and […]
Filed under: Motorsports, Trucks/Pickups, HUMMER
The famous Baja 500 begins today in Ensenada, CA, and one of the more interesting dirt racers discovered by our friend Mike Levine at Pickuptrucks.com is the Tundra D-Cab PreRunner from TForce Motorsports. It looks good, has ridiculously huge King off-road racing shocks, and it’s owned by former Indy 500 […]
Filed under: Aftermarket, Tuners, Coupes, Sports/GTs, Videos, BMW
Click above to view the shoot-out between the BMW M3 and the Dinan 335i.
This is a head-to-head battle we’ve been waiting to see: BMW’s new M3 versus a Dinan-tuned 335i coupe. But we’re only going to talk numbers and let the video tell the tale.
The BMW 335i has […]
Filed under: Motorsports, Porsche, Celebrities
Lewis Hamilton caught a plane headed west after dominating in Monaco, and when you’re a rising F1 star in Los Angeles, you’re certainly not going to hit up Avis to rent a Ford Focus - you want your vents to be functional. So Claus Ettensberger, owner of the So. Cal. tuning […]
Filed under: Plants/Manufacturing, Crossovers/CUVs, BMW
BMW announced today that it would begin building its entry-level CUV at the automaker’s Leipzig plant, alongside the 1- and 3-series. The news confirms rumors that the X1, which has yet to be revealed publicly, will indeed be built on the 3-series platform, lending some amount of sporting cred to the […]
Filed under: Auction Action, Mercedes Benz, Celebrities
Some movie critics said that Harrison Ford was too old to star in another Indiana Jones film, but the entertaining movie grossed $125m in its first weekend. With cars, well conditioned collectibles can fetch big dollars too. The 1937 Mercedes 300c from Raiders of the Lost Ark is up […]
Filed under: Marketing/Advertising, Honda
Click above to view commercial after the jump
We told you earlier in the week that this particular commercial would be the successor to Honda’s famous “Cog” commercial. Dozens of world-class sky divers have been practicing for the commercial in California, and yesterday they pulled of a portion of it live on camera […]
Filed under: Euro, Hatchbacks, Ford
Click above for high-res gallery of the production Ford Fiesta
In a press release today officially announcing that the new Fiesta will be built at its Cuautitlán Assembly Plant in Mexico starting in 2010, Ford confirmed what we all expected: in addition to the Fiesta Sedan, it’s going to build the Fiesta […]
Filed under: Sports/GTs, Tech, Audi
Click above for high-res gallery of the Audi R8
The innovative R8 supercar from Audi is now available for the first time with full LED headlamps. In addition to the standard Audi-signature 24-LED running lamps it’s always had, this extremely expensive option (£3,590 converts to $7,100 USD) adds LED high and low […]