Italian automobile company Vygor has officially debuted the Opera, a hybrid of a Gran Turismo with an SUV. The Vygor allegedly combines the thrill of driving a GT with the practicality and safety associated with a raised four-wheel drive. Along with the use of a new tubular chassis made of high-strength steel, double-triangle individual wheel suspension […]
Born just four years ago, French carmaker Genty is re-igniting France’s supercar dreams with its highly limited edition Akylone. Sure Bugatti is technically French, but we all know ze Germans are the real puppetmasters over at Molsheim. Built around a carbon fiber and aluminum chassis, the Genty Akylone will be powered by an alleged 1,000 […]
Now that Ferrari unveiled the Spider version of its exceptional 458 Italia at Frankfurt Auto Show last month, the gentlemen from Turin don’t want you to forget all about the original. So Ferrari invited Charlie Meadows to fly to the car’s birthplace in Modena and testdrive the car named after the country from which it […]
The year 2008 was a great one for Robert Downey, Jr. The same year he played Tony Stark in Iron Man he also played Kirk Lazarus, the black faced “method actor” in Tropic Thunder. Both were big hits, but it was Iron Man that had legions of acne-pocked fanboys clamoring for more of the villainous […]
Dunhill ups the ante on portable solar chargers with this extremely sharp gadget. Engineered from lightweight and durable aerospace grade aluminium, the Dunhill Solar Charger will provide up to 30 hours of charging for you device, be it mobile phone, iPad, iPod, etc, and can then be fully recharged simply by being left out in […]
Visually borrowing more than just a little from Confederate, the Lito Sora Electric Motorcycle doesn’t have much else similar to is gas burning kin. Two years in development, the Sora could be the bike that legitimizes electrics to the diehard motorcycle crowd. With groundbreaking features like on-board GPS, LCD touch screen, regenerative braking system, an […]
Quite a day for Italian supercars, altho for as much of a marketing ploy as the cosmetically altered Lamborghini Bicolore was, Pagani’s new Huayra is the polar opposite — it’s a brand new ultra supercar, a 7-years-in-the-making racing machine worthy of the torrential drool already spilled at Autoblog and Jalopnik this morning. The esteemed Italian […]
UPDATE: Koenigsegg just released a video of the Agera on the track, hit the Jump to see the supercar in action The fist time I actually saw a Koenigsegg was when running the Gumball Rally in 2003, and it took off out of the San Francisco starting gate in such a torrent of rubber and […]