The saddest aspect of GM’s burying the Pontiac badge last year was surely the end of the proud Firebird lineage. After all its predecessor, the GTO, was the first muscle car ever made — the brainchild of Pontiac chief engineer John DeLorean when he had the epiphany of stuffing a Pontiac Bonneville’s V8 engine into […]
12
Aug
A Pontiac born from a Camaro body
29
Mar
Texas modifiers ramp up the Viper to 1200 hps
Hennessey Performance Engineering unveiled their new Hennessey Venom GT today, just to make sure Italy, Germany and Japan didn’t have an exclusive stranglehold on all things bad ass. Not fulfilled with simply supercharging Cadillacs, the Hennessey Venom GT is based on a Lotus Elise chassis and powered by General Motors’ mammoth 6.2 L LS9 supercharged […]
5
Mar
Swedish supercar makers return with their latest volley
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 […]
7
Dec
Two super enthusiastic Japanese kids just sold me the S1000pj camera
If you haven’t already seen this, here is a pretty awesome video to promote the launch of the Nikon Coolpix S1000pj camera. It all went down at Yomiuri Land, a super popular Japanese amusement park near Tokyo. The idea comes from GT Tokyo, an ad/creative agency. I’d say they did a pretty fantastic job… I […]
16
Nov
Art and life collide
The Jesus Club isn’t what it sounds like. It’s a club in Berlin that opened November 4th and it reads like a pretty amazing night out. The idea is to stir up a daring mix of “music, dance, performance, visual arts and food into a socially engaging atmospherical miracle.” Love it. The reason why the […]
