The Audi R8 Spyder is not to be taken lightly. As it hits North America this summer of 2010; It will have a range of amenities to be reckoned with. With a choice of two different variations of engines coupled with eleven different paint schemes and six different interior color choices. It’s enough send you’re [...]
As many Americans may come to realize, there are just a certain number of cars that aren’t available stateside. We just have to resort to drooling over the internet pondering to ourselves why don’t manufactures just bring it over to the American market. Well there are many reasons but we’ll get to that later. But [...]
The Smart ForTwo gets accused of a lot of things. People call it slow, lumbering, and inefficient for its size. It’s the chubby little brother of more successful, efficient, and competent small cars like the MINI, the FIAT 500, the Honda Fit, and even the Toyota Yaris (all of which get better [...]
olkswagen’s 1.8-liter turbo represented a huge step for tuners and enthusiasts alike. The G60 before it had given enthusiasts a taste of the potential of forced induction. The US market only saw it in the Corrado, while the rest of the world could enjoy Golfs and even Passats powered by the little blown four. Sadly [...]
f the idea of banging fenders on the race track in a $285,000 Italian exotic makes you feel a bit queasy, imagine 30 of them trading paint and swapping blows. In an effort to get some racing street-cred, and also keep pace with Porsche and Ferrari, Lamborghini has been running the Super Trofeo series at [...]
his may be difficult to write, because of drool on the keyboard, but here goes… the 2010 Porsche 911 Turbo has been revealed.
It features a new 3.8-liter flat six engine with direct fuel injection and variable turbine geometry (VTG) for its twin blowers, the combination being a Porsche first. Oh, and it has the same [...]
fter 40 years of service with a single company, most employees look forward to receiving a cheap watch in an expensive box as a reward. Lamborghini isn’t your typical company and Valentino Balboni isn’t your typical employee.
In 1967 Balboni was hired by Ferrucio Lamborghini himself who immediately recognized his talents for testing and developing cars. To [...]
o sooner has Maranello’s girlie car, the California, made it into an Entourage scene (a series that puts the Ari into Ferrari), when the mid-engined 430 replacement breaks cover. This is the Ferrari 458 Italia, sporting a 562-hp 4.5-liter. After doing a little math, that works out to something close to 125 [...]
icture this, your at a rave , or a concert or in Italy for instance, your taking all these photos of buildings ,the lively environment , your friends , but when you get home and look at the photos you wished you [...]
Tornados are unstoppable forces of nature while freight trains are unstoppable forces of man. So it’s natural that you would wonder which would win in a no holds barred, cage match. For decades and usually while sipping beer at the local bar, men have deliberated the merits and demerits of just this sort of pointless [...]
