How do you show off the power of a 563 hp, 6.3-liter V8 supercar with 479 lb-ft of torque? Well if you’re Mercedes Benz and you want to show off your new 2011 SLS AMG you hire Michael Schumacher to drive it through a tunnel…upside down. Why not? The Gullwing SLS AMG sprints from 0 […]

You know how I just got done ranting yesterday about the insidiousness of advertising, and how it’s a black festering sore on the soul of humanity? Well, here comes Nike with a well-timed rebuttal emphasizing the potential that advertising, and commercials, can reach. This Exploit Yourself ad is pretty rad, even if it does just […]

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 […]

Take a long look at the above photo. It’s GM’s booth at the 2009 NAIAS in Detroit, the most important car show in America. And no, it’s not after-hours. This is mid-show. Yowzers. I haven’t such emptiness since that Heidi Montag wedding (Zing!). Obviously, a very slow year for Detroit. A consultant who used to […]

The new Mercedes Benz McLaren SLR Stirling Moss will be the last of the acclaimed McLaren SLR line. What a shame — these SLRs are bad ass. Supposedly, this is the production version and will come out with neither windows nor roof. No roof? As this supercar launches you down the road with 650 horses, […]

For reasons unknown, Nissan had the lack of foresight to invite us to the launch of their fabled new GT-R. You know, the newest chapter in Nissan’s fire-breathing Skyline GT-R lineage (tho they dropped the Skyline part). And oooooh, what a a car… Hit the Jump to continue reading Charlie Meadow’s review of the Nissan GT-R… […]