Last week we made the joke that there was never a dollar of corporate marketing that George Lucas didn’t like, and now that he’s soldout the Star Wars franchise to Disney it seems the vapid, utterly unnecessary marketing collaborations will only continue to avalanche down the slippery slope of corporate retardedness. Witness the latest: a […]

Don’t ever really like to get too crazy with the pie-in-the-sky concepts, unless it’s really something truly exceptional. Such is the case with this menacing vaporware concept by Circassian designer Kasim Tlibekov. It helps that he’s chosen to put his talents on the Pontiac Firebird, one of America’s muscle cars of the highest order — […]

Anthrax acolyte, resident New York hooligan and Official Editor of All Things Metal, the nefarious Matt Hanrahan gives us the low down on Van Halen’s other exiled singer’s bio… As anyone who knows me knows, I am a die-hard fan of the Mighty Van Halen. I have seen the band live with Roth and Hagar […]

The latest project from Spank Rock emcee Naeem called Mobroder. A clear ode to electronic pioneer Giorgio Moroder, the video for “Rush” — the Nile Delta Remix — was directed by Francisco Soriano and Antoine Wagner for the Scion Audio/Visual project. Ya can’t possibly hate on any video featuring a gold 6.6L 1979 Pontiac Transam… […]

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 […]

In what is surely the automotive shock of the year, GM has completely dropped the ball on their most promising car of the future. Instead of the aggressively lined, low-slung beast above as the design for their heavily hyped Volt, the boys behind some of the ugliest cars in the world instead have opted with […]