Posts Tagged ‘billionaire’
Click above to view Iron Man official trailerWe get very fidgetity if there's not an auto-related movie, TV show or spoken word poetry slam album to talk about here on Autoblog. So while the upcoming superhero flick Iron Man does not have a plot that revolves around our four-wheeled friends, it cer......
Fashion Plate: UAE license #1 goes for $14.5m
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Some records stay in place for a while, and some are shattered regularly. Records set for obscene spending on frivolity never seem to stay put for very long, however, as there's always someone with more cash to blow on something ridiculous. And so it transpires that after tuning magnate Afzal Kahn p......
Iron Man’s garage contains more than just an R8
Saturday, November 24th, 2007
Click image to enlargeThe next television spot for Jon Favreau's Iron Man will debut this weekend during (what else) the Super Bowl. Quint at Ain't It Cool News posted a screen capture released by the studio that shows our billionaire industrialist hero, Tony Stark, working in his garage on the armo......
VIDEO: Bill Gates drives a Ford Focus Coupe
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
click above image to view videoBill Gates gave his final keynote address yesterday at the CES Show in Las Vegas, at which he announced a new version of SYNC that adds OnStar-esque capabilities like calling 911 after an accident and recording diagnostic information. Being that Bill will soon leave t......
TVR once again ready to get back on track
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
Earlier this year we reported that TVR had been sold to a pair of Floridian businessmen. In actuality, the sale was never consummated, and the company remains in the hands of Russian billionaire Nikolai Smolenski. Although it is still finding its way out of the woods, the company has laid out a reco......
Spyker F1 team sold
Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
Spyker's well-publicized tumult continues on its way to some sort of conclusion with news that the F1 team has been sold. The buying consortium includes Michiel Mol, until recently the head of Spyker Cars, his son Jan Mol, and Indian billionaire Vijay Mallya. The F1 team has always operated under fi......
GAZ unveils the Siber sedan, son of Sebring
Sunday, June 24th, 2007
Click image for photo gallery of media pics and live shots from Auto.lenta.ruWell, it looks like somebody is going to be buying the Chrysler Sebring. We just got a tip that GAZ has bought the rights to build a modified version of the last-gen car for sale in Europe. Along with manufacturing help fro......
From Russia, With Love: Owner of GAZ buys 5% of GM
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007
Okay, so maybe GAZ wasn't really interested in buying Land Rover and Jaguar from Ford, but that hasn't stopped Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska from buying a big chunk of another U.S. automaker. Deripaska is the owner of GAZ and he just bought 5% of General Motors on the open market. Said to be wo......
No surprise: GAZ has no interest in buying Jaguar/Land Rover
Sunday, May 27th, 2007
Contrary to the reports that surfaced yesterday asserting that Russian automaker GAZ was interested in purchasing Land Rover and Jaguar, a spokesman for the company has officially denied the rumors. Reuters quoted Oleg Deripaska, the billionaire behind Russian Machines, the umbrella corporation that......
Iron Man will drive an Audi R8
Thursday, May 24th, 2007
Don't tell Toyota, but Iron Man drives an Audi - at least in the movies. Not to be confused with longtime Toyota off-road truck racer Ivan "Iron Man" Stewart, we're talking about Tony "Iron Man" Stark here. Word from Variety is that the newest big screen superhero will be piloting Audi's latest supe......