Posts Tagged ‘assortment’
Click above for high-res gallery of Ben's Boss A4If you act now, you can purchase the 2001 Audi A4 Avant in the picture above. If you want the whole car, as is, it will cost you $2,500. If -- for reasons we can't fathom -- you want the car without the front bumper, it will cost you $2,350. If you w......
BMW builds big @$$ ad in Moscow
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
In terms of sheer size, Russia is the largest country in the world. That must have something to do with this gargantuan advertisement found in Russia... According to the caption, the surface area measures more than 1.5 acres (billboard haters should stop complaining right about now, as it appears we......
Speed up your refresh rate with carbon fiber desktop wallpaper
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Carbon fiber, that uber-cool mix of graphite fibers and epoxy that used to be reserved for exotic race cars and fighter jets, is seemingly everywhere these days. Lightweight and space-age, the material is now directly associated with speed and performance. If you are an automaker offering a high-per......
Explosion and fire at Chrysler’s Windsor assembly plant
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
Around 12:30PM EST today, Chrysler's Windsor assembly plant in Canada, which produces an assortment of the automaker's minivans, caught fire after a reported explosion. Eyewitness reports claim that the explosion was followed by large plumes of black smoke emanating from the northwest corner of the ......
Quattro Valvole watch by Meccaniche Veloci
Saturday, October 13th, 2007
Automotive timepieces keep getting closer to the cars they're inspired by in terms of design, mechanics and price. The latest to cross our radar screen is the Quattro Valvole by Italian watchmaker Meccaniche Veloci.
If the model name sounds familiar, you're thinking back to the circa-1984 Ferrari 3......
Subaru STI performance pack released, in Japan
Friday, April 27th, 2007
Click the link above for a gallery of STI goodies.Those intrepid internet scavengers over at Carscoop came across what they originally believed was the next Impreza STI, but instead it turned out to be Subaru's sport parts and accessories. Most of the products are more geared towards visual enhance......
Another great One Lap blog to watch
Sunday, March 18th, 2007
Between our periodic bouts of rage and disappointment for not making it to this year's One Lap, we've been able to keep tabs on the event by checking in with our friends at Winding Road and also with the power-obsessed folks at GSC Motorsports. They've been making consistent posts on their blog, whi......
Forza Motorsports 2 demo now available for free on XBLM
Saturday, March 17th, 2007
The final version of Forza Motorsports 2 for the Xbox 360 has gone gold, which in video game parlance means its ready to be pressed into discs and shipped off to stores. While the release date for the 360's premier driving game is not until May 29th, early this morning at 5AM EST, publishers of the ......
Geneva Motor Show: Rinspeed brings the weird, again - eXasis
Thursday, January 18th, 2007
Click the image above for our gallery.The open-wheeled excess continues -- this time it comes courtesy of the wacky blokes over at Rinspeed. We've already given up most of the details over the past month, but as a reminder, the translucent body gives you a voyeuristic view of all the components tha......
Spring Rally Day 1
Saturday, June 11th, 2005
I'm back from the wilds of Wisconsin where I spent the past two days at a semi-annual rally for Midwest automotive journalists. For two days we took over Road America at Elkhart Lake to test out the latest offerings from manufacturers. On day one we were given access to the track, yes the actual rac......