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 […]

The ironic thing about the Audi RS7 concept by Austrian designer Adriano Mudri is that as wild as it looks aesthetically, its Frankenstein-esque conflation of different marques being mixed and matched is not far from the truth — and is a vision of things to come. As car companies get merged and absorbed into larger […]

We already saw what Alfa Romeo could do with one premier Italian design house, so why not give some shine to their collaboration with another legendary Italian design house — this time Bertone. While Pininfarina’s 2uettottanta Concept has the curvaceous elegance of a 50s pinup, this Pandion Concept is an angular, futuristic, razorblade-fitted assassin. Its […]

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 […]

If you want to discuss the depressing state of the auto industry, you need venture no further than this year’s LA Auto Show to see just how low the industry has sunk. Nevermind that halo lines like Ferrari, Maserati and Lamborghini didn’t even bother showing up, the lines that did had very little exciting newness […]

Jalopnik has a great image gallery of the new Marussia B2 supercar, the fruits of recent Russian mobster tactic illegal weapons dealings oil wealth. Revealed at the Frankfurt Motor Show now underway, there aren’t many details to share at this time (other than it was penned by Nikolai Fomenko, of Top Gear Russia fame), but […]

“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 […]