Posts Tagged ‘mom’

Spy Shots: Next-gen BMW 7-Series showing almost everything

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
BMW's current E65/66 7-Series has been roundly bashed since its introduction in 2002, and it's creeping up on retirement. Whether it was deserving of all the uproar or not is down to taste, but following up the classically styled E38 while also making a turn toward a new ethos is a 1-2 punch of cont......

VIDEO: New Speed Racer trailer a visual feast

Saturday, March 15th, 2008
It's very tempting to dismiss the Wachowski brothers' live-action Speed Racer film as a hopeless exercise in ridiculousness. But the problem is that both trailers released show a movie that's utterly drenched with style, as the auteur siblings appear to have held nothing back in trying to bring the ......

Get your Flux Capacitors right here!

Sunday, September 30th, 2007
Okay, let's get this straight. Back to the Future movies: cool. Making your DeLorean into a replica of the movie car: incredibly lame. Halfway between would be a reproduction flux capacitor. If you did buy this thing, you could certainly attain full lameness by installing in in your non-DeLorean.The......

Look Mom, No Arms! Armless Tennessee man learns to drive

Saturday, July 21st, 2007
From the Feel Good Files: Roger Rice was born with no arms, but that hasn't stopped him from learning to write, type, dial a phone, and raise a family. He also runs a non-profit called Look Mom, No Arms, that is working to build a center for assistive technology to benefit others like him.Nor has hi......

Ferrari’s latest Vertu phone features gated shifter

Friday, July 20th, 2007
No, you read that right. A gated shifter. On a mobile phone. Not only that, but the box holding the high-priced handset even includes a valve from a Ferrari Formula One car. This is certainly the phone for the Ferrari fan with the problem spending money on the overpriced, outdated electronics.As far......

Minivans: not just for Soccer-Moms

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
My uncle's motoring choice has always had me a little puzzled. He's got a garage full of Mercedes, Range Rovers, Hummers and a Magnum PI-style Ferrari 308 GTS that he never drives. What does he drive instead? A Chrysler minivan. Chances are you know somebody like that, too. Over at the Kicking Tires......

What should you know about before importing a car/bike Part-1

Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Overview:Thanks to Indian growth story, Cult bike maker Harley Davidson is likely to make its Indian foray soon. While dhoom 1 and Dhoom 2 have given a definite dimension to India’s premium bike market, Rolls Royce and Maybach are already getting decent numbers in their order book. Many youngsters......

The How-To guide on buying your mom a car for Mother’s Day

Friday, March 16th, 2007
Think about everything your mom has bought you in your lifetime. Who paid for those car magazines before you were gainfully employed? Who gave you gas money to get back to campus after a quick visit home? And who was there with bail money when you really needed it? That's right, Mom.Can any pure b......

VIDEO: Demolition Derby, Soccer-Mom Style

Friday, December 8th, 2006
"Hell knows no wrath like a woman scorned" goes the old proverb. What about a woman with her car scratched up? This video is a surprisingly entertaining clip from the Fox sitcom "Malcolm in the Middle", where a simple tap of the door, fueled by downright bitchiness, devolves into a full on demoliti......

Whaaaa? BMW 770Li W12

Sunday, July 30th, 2006
A keen observer in the UK, sent the blokes over at PistonHeads the above pic of a BMW 7-Series with '770Li' badging and, even weirder, a 'W12' logo brandishing itself on the left corner of its pseudo-Bangled trunk lid.If this is authentic, and we're pretty damn sure that it's not, would BMW really t......