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The Single Most Badass Thing I Have Ever Seen

France, most of the vehicles you have produced over the years have been mediocre and uninspiring, but this makes up for all of it. I would like to thank the French for inventing the ACMA Troupes Aeról Portées Mle. 56. Operating on the principal that a small platform with an inordinate amount of firepower increases badassery (Think Arnold [...]

Patented Doodles: Ferrari’s AWD Hybrid

The boys over at AutoblogGreen have done all the dirty work for us. Presumably, they’ve dug through thousands of patent filing documents to come up with this bit of news. And the world is a better place for it.  Not wanting to leave Lamborghini with a monopoly on AWD Italian supercars, Ferrari is now working [...]

Living With A Sports Car – Nissan 350Z Part V

Refresher: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV. Finally. Finally, the new tires are on. No more listening to separating sidewalls drowning out my music. No more fearing an imminent elastic hydrocarbon polymer explosion that would send me sideways into a concrete barrier. Victory! At a cost of $189 to install and $1260 to purchase. Not [...]

Picture of the Day: Baroque Beetle

If the Romanovs had stuck around long enough for Volkswagen to build them a custom beetle, I guarantee it would have looked like this. I’d hate to see the drag coefficient though.

Why Am I Attracted To The Nissan Quest?

Being 22 and legally single certainly doesn’t qualify me to chop my balls off and end my life buy a minivan. And yet, I’ve always thought that, of all the minivans out there, the Nissan Quest was the most interesting. But why?

Da Streetz: 2009 Chevy HHR SS Panel

Today is Da Streetz: Collector’s Edition. And instead of finding this vehicle on the streets, it was in a showroom. Close enough, I say. There are rare cars and then there are seriously rare cars. Paganis fall into the latter category, but there are some surprising cars that fall into the former category. Some are [...]

Review: Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG

My freshman year of college, my good friend Cole and I were hungry and wandering about campus somewhat aimlessly. We tried to go to the food court, put it had closed at 9:30, since apparently Midwesterners never eat after the sun goes down. We then went to the inconvenience store, which was closed, as always. In fact, the only time I ever saw it open was when I was going in between classes. Neither of us had a car (terrifying, I know), so we decided to walk down to 38th st. for some wings. This began as a joke, but somehow it turned into our plan for the night.

We set out on our 9.2 kilometer journey, not really thinking about how it would mostly be on the highway. While walking down the should, or sometimes the median, or sometimes along a steep slope just off the road was ridiculous, and more than a bit stupid, we did it anyway. We even made it through a one kilometer stretch where the shoulder had been taken over by bushes and trees just off the highway. In order to keep moving forward, we hatched a plan that only two 18 year old college students in need of some hot wings would come up with. We waited in the bushes until we couldn’t see any headlights coming our way, and then jumped out into the right lane and ran like hell. When we saw the road start to lighten, we jumped back into the bushes.

Eventually, we made it to the dodgy part of town, and had some wings. This is when I suggested that we could have simply ordered a pizza, like normal people. Anyway, I promise I’ll start talking about cars after the jump.

Video: First Review of Aston Martin V12 Vantage

Those lucky punks at Drivers Republic have done it again. Not a week after publishing a review pitting the Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano against the Merc SL65 AMG Black Series and the Porsche GT2, they’ve posted a review of the new Aston Martin V12 Vantage. For those unfamiliar with the V12 Vantage, it takes the [...]

Smart: Yeah, Our Transmission Does Suck

You may or may not remember that I reviewed a Smart Fortwo a while back. It was an, um, interesting car to say the least. One of my admittedly many gripes was with the transmission. It was the slowest, jerkiest automatic transmission I had ever experienced in a car and as a result I compared [...]

Baconman Would Drive The Baconmobile

Gasoline, especially the racing variety, smells sweet as it pours out an exhaust pipe. If you pound hard enough on an electric car, we’re told they smell like ozone, just like a carnival bumper car. Diesel fuel is rather nasty but can conjure up nostalgic memories of youth and Volkswagens, assuming you’re that kind of [...]