Lamborghini’s elder statesmen and test driver, Valentino Balboni, retired last year due to Italian bureaucratic red tape. Lambo wanted to honor him by building a signature model, the only problem was Balboni demanded that any car that bore his name must be rear-wheel drive only (as opposed to their now standard All Wheel Drive). The […]

We at LIAS are super stoked to announce we’ll be picking up a Lamborghini Balboni — aka Lamborghini Gallardo LP 550-2 Valentino Balboni edition — next week for an extended test drive. We greet this news with both obvious glee and yet great apprehension, as the limited edition Balboni has one qualitative difference from its […]

Last year Lambo announced the SuperVeloce version of its halo supercar, the Murciélago. Since, rumors have circulated of a SuperVeloce version of the Baby Lambo, the Gallardo. Well now some images have surfaced giving much heft to the possibility. You know Lambo’s not done with the Gallardo body style yet (how many years does it […]

“Police frequently hide here,” chimed my iPhone repeatedly as I hummed in my bloodnail red Audi R8 5.2 along the 101, just minutes before crossing south over the Golden Gate Bridge into San Francisco. I’d just downloaded an app called Trapster that informs habitual speeders like myself of speed traps, red light cameras, radar and […]

Today concludes the 11th annual Gumball 3000, an epic rally raging from Los Angeles to Miami via stops in Vegas, Sedona, Santa Fe, Dallas, New Orleans, and Orlando. And what a rally it was! We loaded up the Lost In a Supermarket Special Edition Cadillac CTS-V and hit the road, racing and celebrating in massive […]

Audi has announced 2 new evolutions of its R8 beast: the GT3 production (above) and the soon-to-be-unveiled R10 (below). After winning almost every Car of the Year award in 2007, the new R8s are sure to be dinosaur-burning bangers. I had one for a week last year, and the car was without a doubt the […]

The regular fervor of the LA Auto Show was lost this year due to the impending doom of what will forever be known as the “Big 3 Bailout“. Auto execs of Ford, GM and Chrysler left their stations unmanned while they flew private jets to Washington to grovel at the feet of the Senate Congressional […]

Damn. October’s been a great month for cops, and a crappy one for my license. This new Lambo Gallardo LP 560-4, specially modified for the Italian Polizia, begs the question: Why did Robocop have to die so young? He missed out on this and the ridiculous Carbon Motors E7. What a gyp. The Polizia Gallardo […]