McLaren P1 Possibly Slated For LEGO
The McLaren P1 – along with a few other supercars such as the Ferrari 458 Italia and Porsche 918 Spyder – are supposedly scheduled to be part of a LEGO Speed Champions set in 2015…
September 2014
Speed Racer Steven Is Happy Idiot
First, you can’t go wrong with a “Speed Racer” element in your music video – but musical TV on the Radio went one [or maybe two] better – by not only making a “Speed Racer” reference in their “Happy Idiot” music video that will make you pine for the fjords of 1980s MTV music video […]
Johnnie Walker Offers Jenson Button Master-Class
To promote their whisky, Johnnie Walker will be offering a driving master-class – alas, only in the UK at the moment – with former Formula One world champion and current McLaren driver, Jenson Button…
Max Verstappen Will Run Friday Practice At Suzuka
In what is essentially a trial run before his 2015 debut as a full-time driver for the Toro Rosso team, soon-to-be 17-year-old teenager Max Verstappen will replace Jean-Eric Vergne as the practice driver for Toro Rosso for the Friday session prior to the 2104 Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka. Verstappen’s practice run will officially make […]
An Animated History Of The Van
An animated history of the van as brought to you by the fine folks at Mercedes-Benz…
Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee Returns For Season Five in November
After months of “Single Shots”, Jerry Seinfeld is nearly ready to unveil Season Five of his popular web series “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee”. The new six-episode season will begin in November and will feature late-night talk show host Jimmy Fallon, actor-comedian Kevin Hart, actor-comedian Fred Armisen, actress-comedian Ali Wentworth and straight comedians Bill Burr, […]
Asphalt Overdrive Launch Trailer
The launch trailer has arrived and launched for the mobile video racing game “Asphalt Overdrive”, which is available to both Android and iOs platforms…
Thanks To Hoff, Beebs Is New Voice of KITT
Thanks to David Hasselhoff, star of the original “Knight Rider” television series, Justin Bieber will be the new voice of KITT [the 1982 talking black Pontiac Firebird Trans Am] in an upcoming movie entitled “Killing Hasselhoff”. The Hoff took a liking to Beebs when he first met him five years ago and now has bestowed […]
Team Brabham Unveils Project Brabham With LeMans Target
David Brabham, the son of former Formula 1 world champion Jack Brabham, is unveiling a crowdfunding campaign to create the first phase of his new Brabham racing team program which is aiming to compete in the LMP2 category at the 2015 24 Hours of LeMans race and, ultimately, at Formula 1 in the future…
Valet Parking At The Casino San Remo
New Casino San Remo valet, Ambrogio Adani, came to his first day of work at the Italian casino and everything was going according to plan as various swanky cars arrived for parking until….the new Volvo startled him…
Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee Single Shot: Pee Pee Time
It’s time for another Single Shot episode of Jerry Seinfeld’s “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” and the topic – as it sometimes needs to be with cars and coffee – is urination…
Lotus Will Not Pull Evora From USA Market…Except For 2015
Just when it appeared iconic British automaker Lotus was throwing in the towel on the USA street-legal market, they got a second wind – or at least decided they would put smart airbags into their Evora. Lotus was looking at leaving the lucrative USA market after their 12-month exemption to install federally-mandated smart airbags on […]
Top Gear Has Arrived In Argentina
Top Gear has arrived in Argentina, where they will be filming their annual Christmas Special that caps off every season and from the looks of the pictures from Autoblog Argentina that have emerged from their arrival – they will be employing a cheap car challenge of sorts with a Porsche 928 [probably May], Lotus Esprit […]
Caddy Movin’ On Up – To The East Side – To A Deluxe Apt. In The Sky
Cadillac is abandoning Detroit and moving its global headquarters to New York City where it will be a “multi-purpose brand and event space in conjunction with modern loft offices”. The technical product development branches of the organization, however, will remain in Detroit. Cadillac is planning to launch a new flagship sedan in 2015 to coincide […]
A Morgan Three-Wheeler LEGO Version
You can make virtually any car out of LEGOs these days – but whether or not you can is nearly always subservient to how well you can make it look [translation: will it look even marginally close to the original real-life version?]. In the case of Ryan Borlik and his Morgan Three-Wheeler, the answer to […]
Lotus Will Pull Evora From USA Market
The troubles for Lotus just got more troubling as the iconic British automaker will likely be pulling their latest street-legal model – the Evora – from the USA market after their 12-month exemption to install federally-mandated smart airbags officially expired and the company’s engineers who might have been employed to install said airbags will be […]
Mercedes Wins Again At Singapore Grand Prix
It was the same old, same old in Formula One racing this weekend at Marina Bay as Mercedes won yet another race – the only difference this time was that only one of their cars made it to the finish line unscathed – as Mercedes retained their dominance on the circuit with a convincing victory […]
Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee Single Shot: Leno And Letterman On Each Other
The latest “Single Shot” episode of Jerry Seinfeld’s popular web series “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” has late night talk show host legends David Letterman and Jay Leno comparing notes on a variety of subjects such as Richard Pryor, comedy clubs and each other…
The Toyota FT-1 GT Makes Its Gran Turismo 6 Debut
Racing video game Gran Turismo 6 revealed the GT version of its Toyota FT-1 from its Vision series…
The Crew Takes You On A Social Driving Scenic Route
A new trailer for the upcoming video game “The Crew” provides you with a tutorial of situations you may encounter in the game…