Recent Posts Tagged With 'exotic cars'

• 2011 BMW 5-Series Officially Revealed To Dozing Audience

  Posted on Monday November 23rd, 2009 at 15:29 in Cars, pictures, design, bmw, auto industry, newsworthy, exotic cars, new cars, fast cars, expensive cars

  Occasionally, a vehicle will debut in the automotive industry and to the unenlightened, it hardly looks worthy of the fanfare it receives. If you are to politely suggest as much, however, you are immediately ostracized for your obvious lack of insig...

• Design Miami/ 2009 Plays Host To Audi’s “Art of Progress,” New A8

  Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 11:48 in Cars, pictures, design, audi, auto industry, auto show, newsworthy, exotic cars, new cars, expensive cars

  It’s a Saturday night, you just had your S4 detailed, and your Bedazzler sits spent in the corner, overheated from a busy afternoon spent jazzing up your new collection of Ed Hardy tees. You’re just dying to strut your stuff in front of ...

• Reasonable RideLust: Slightly Water Damaged Bugatti Veyron

  Posted on Thursday November 12th, 2009 at 08:45 in Cars, videos, supercars, auto industry, bugatti, exotic cars, fast cars, expensive cars, off-roading, reasonable ridelust

  Thanks to a shoestring budget and a disposable income that is disposed of rather quickly, I tend to keep my standards low when it comes to the pursuit of precious performance metals. I’ve been in the market for a new car (read: heavily used bu...

• Dodge Viper To Halt Production In 2010, Successor Due In 2012

  Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 16:03 in Cars, fiat, sports cars, auto industry, dodge, chrysler, newsworthy, exotic cars, new cars, expensive cars

  Contrary to the wash of fantastic, extremely inaccurate reports currently making their way around the web detailing the tragic demise of the iconic Dodge Viper, Chrysler has no intention of killing of the supercharged snake. Heavily revising it beyo...

• McLaren MP4-12C To Be MIA At LA Auto Show, US Dealerships

  Posted on Monday November 2nd, 2009 at 08:42 in Cars, General, McLaren, auto industry, auto show, newsworthy, exotic cars, new cars, fast cars, expensive cars, la auto show

  Despite featuring performance specs that would make a grown man weep for the sheer beauty, the McLaren MP4-12C is having difficulty earning a warm U.S. welcome. Originally, the highly-anticipated Ferrari-fighter was scheduled to make its first U.S. ...

• Lamborghini Launches 2009 Christmas Gift Collection

  Posted on Thursday October 22nd, 2009 at 13:02 in Cars, lamborghini, car accessories, auto industry, newsworthy, exotic cars, fast cars, expensive cars, foreign cars, car branding

  In the event that your billion-dollar corporation was bailed out by the government and as a result your Christmas bonus will be significantly smaller this year, Lamborghini has introduced the perfect gift to supplant that brand new LP560-4 you had p...

• NY Koenigsegg Dealership To Have Position Available Shortly

  Posted on Wednesday October 21st, 2009 at 15:12 in Cars, safety, luxury cars, supercars, newsworthy, koenigsegg, exotic cars, fast cars, expensive cars

  In New York, an exotic car dealer took a customer’s 2008 Koenigsegg CCX for an ill-advised spin, resulting in the unfortunate crash pictured above. Only one of ten to ever touch down on U.S. soil, the total dollar loss on the damaged CCX was c...

• 2010 Lotus Exige Scura Makes Stealthy Tokyo Debut

  Posted on Monday October 19th, 2009 at 14:16 in Cars, pictures, lotus, newsworthy, exotic cars, new cars, fast cars, expensive cars, tokyo motor show

  Despite the bevy of manufacturers that will be MIA at the Tokyo Motor Show this year, those that have elected to participate promise to make it worth our while. Topping our list of the vehicles we’re anxious to see is the the newest murdered o...

• Lee Noble Plans New Supercar in 2010, Gets Genenerous With The Details

  Posted on Friday October 16th, 2009 at 10:00 in Cars, design, supercars, auto industry, custom, noble, newsworthy, exotic cars, new cars, fast cars, expensive cars

  Lee Noble, who has not been affiliated with his brainchild, Noble Automotive, since 2006, has announced that he will be be launching a solo project. The name and the date are still very much up for debate, but sources feel surprisingly confident tha...

• 2012 Audi e-tron To Begin Production Wearing R4 Badge

  Posted on Thursday October 15th, 2009 at 16:24 in Cars, pictures, concept cars, audi, electric cars, electric vehicles, luxury cars, auto industry, newsworthy, exotic cars, new cars, fast cars

  Last week, we broke the news that the very thinly disguised “concept” known as the Audi e-tron was approved for production, but there was a catch. Contrary to what all exterior cues would suggest, the Audi e-tron would not be a plug-in ve...

• Maserati Celebrates Italian Innovation in 69th Annual Columbus Day Parade

  Posted on Monday October 12th, 2009 at 08:57 in history, classic, luxury cars, auto industry, maserati, newsworthy, exotic cars, fast cars, expensive cars, celebrity cars, collector cars, foreign cars

  Celebrating over 500 years since a slightly confused Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in search of native peoples to disenfranchise, in a few hours a group of legendary Maserati’s will lead the 65th annual Columbus Day Parade up Fift...

• DeLorean Announces Intent To Save The Pontiac Solstice

  Posted on Friday October 9th, 2009 at 12:51 in Cars, design, history, gm, auto industry, pontiac, custom, newsworthy, exotic cars, car buying, favorite cars, new cars

  In perhaps one of the strangest pieces of news to come across our desks this week, DeLorean Motor Company is purportedly seriously interested in rescuing the ill-fated Pontiac Solstice from the scrap heap. The announcement comes on the heels of news ...

• Nissan GT-R Replacement Drops in 2013

  Posted on Monday October 5th, 2009 at 12:53 in nissan, sports cars, supercars, auto industry, newsworthy, exotic cars, favorite cars, new cars, fast cars, expensive cars, nissan gt-r, car tech

  For fans of working-class superhero sportscars like the all-conquering Nissan GT-R, you can rest assured that Nissan isn’t going to rest on its laurels or let the current recession kill their plans to replace the current R35 model. They’re alread...

• Audi e-tron Headed For Production, Almost Qualifies As “Not News”

  Posted on Monday October 5th, 2009 at 12:50 in Cars, concept cars, audi, electric cars, electric vehicles, luxury cars, auto show, newsworthy, exotic cars, new cars, fast cars, expensive cars

  Today, proving our assumptions right and themselves totally incapable of convincingly playing coy, Audi has finally dispensed with the subterfuge and officially confirmed that the Audi e-tron concept is slated for production. Initially unveiled last...

• Ferrari P4/5 Competizione to Revive NART Team?

  Posted on Thursday October 1st, 2009 at 19:52 in racing, ferrari, concept cars, sports cars, custom, newsworthy, exotic cars, favorite cars, fast cars, pininfarina, expensive cars, celebrity cars

  If James Glickenhaus gets his way, NART, Ferrari’s North American Racing Team, might be making a comeback. If you don’t know the name, you probably know about his custom Ferrari P4/5, a rebodied Ferrari Enzo one-off that he commissioned from Pin...

• Mansory Bentley Vitesse Rosé Challenges Our Faith In Humanity

  Posted on Thursday September 17th, 2009 at 09:54 in Cars, pictures, design, luxury cars, bentley, custom, auto show, exotic cars, new cars, fast cars, frankfurt motor show, expensive cars

  Well, the good news is that production will be limited to just three cars. According to an inexplicably proud Mansory, Vitesse is the French word for “velocity” and although they did not admit as much, Rosé is apparently the French word ...

• Lamborghini Reventón Roadster Pics Reveal Dangerous Bodywork

  Posted on Friday September 11th, 2009 at 09:52 in Cars, pictures, General, lamborghini, supercars, roadster, exotic cars, new cars, fast cars, expensive cars, car photography

  Lamborghini originally denied the development of a Reventón roadster, but these pics surfaced online to prove otherwise. The exterior is crazy, with edges sharp enough to keep away from a depressed emo hipster. Inside, magnates will find loads of ...

• 2010 Mercedes SLS AMG “Gullwing” Unmasked and Angry

  Posted on Wednesday September 9th, 2009 at 11:56 in pictures, sports cars, supercars, mercedes benz, newsworthy, amg, exotic cars, favorite cars, new cars, fast cars, expensive cars

  Apparently it’s supercar Wednesday, with the new McLaren MP4-12C and this, the brand-spankin’ new 2010 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Gullwing coming out to play. The Gullwing has been running around in a mask (not unlike the chap we mentioned yes...

• McLaren MP4-12C, McLaren F1 Successor, Hits the Internet

  Posted on Wednesday September 9th, 2009 at 11:33 in pictures, design, McLaren, horsepower, sports cars, supercars, press release, newsworthy, exotic cars, new cars, fast cars, expensive cars

  How do you follow up after producing possibly the world’s single greatest sportscar of all time, the McLaren F1? Apparently, you design and produce this, the new McLaren MP4-12C. (Gesundheit.) It has all the go-fast bits you’ve seen on co...

• 2010 Lotus Exige Cup 260 Tops Itself…Again

  Posted on Tuesday September 1st, 2009 at 00:02 in Cars, racing, sports cars, lotus, exotic cars, favorite cars, new cars, fast cars, expensive cars

  We won’t even pretend to think that Lotus won’t tweak, snip or otherwise improve upon the 2010 Exige Cup 260. Each time we conclude they have taken the current model of their street-legal race car to the highest levels of performance, (a...

• The 600HP ABT Sportsline Audi R8 5.2 FSI Is A Demon In Carbon Fiber Jeans

  Posted on Saturday August 29th, 2009 at 16:54 in audi, horsepower, luxury cars, press release, exotic cars, favorite cars, fast cars, gas guzzlers, expensive cars, car modifications, conversion kits

  Ascribing poetic hyperbole and terms of endearment to Audi’s R8 is pure cliche at this point. We know it’s good. The only thing that wasn’t just as spectacular as everything else about the car was the engine, a 4.2 liter V8 packing ...

• Ford Shelby GR-1 Makes Ford GT Look Ugly

  Posted on Friday August 28th, 2009 at 12:10 in Cars, design, General, ford, supercars, auto show, ford gt, exotic cars, fast cars, expensive cars, shelby supercars

  It has been a few years now since the Ford GT arrived, lived its short life in production and then passed through the gates into supercar Valhalla. But as awesome as the GT was, it may not have even been the best performance model Ford had in its ars...

• Ferarri 458 Italia’s Cockpit Giving Us Voltron Flashbacks

  Posted on Thursday August 27th, 2009 at 17:58 in design, ferrari, pop culture, exotic cars, favorite cars, new cars, fast cars, expensive cars, car tech

  Surely you remember Voltron? Five giant kickass lions forming up to create a big metallic samurai space warrior fighting giant space mutants created by the evil witch Hagar? How the kids who piloted the thing always remembered just at the last second...

• Maserati GranCabrio Revealed Ahead of Frankfurt

  Posted on Monday August 24th, 2009 at 11:05 in Cars, pictures, maserati, auto show, newsworthy, exotic cars, new cars, frankfurt motor show, expensive cars, foreign cars

  Today, mere weeks ahead of its scheduled unveiling at the Frankfurt Auto Show, Maserati tore the cover off the brand new Maserati GranCabrio. Although it follows a rich line of convertibles, including the Girogetto Giugiaro 2001 Spyder that spearhead...

• Gumpert Apollo Sets Nürburgring Record, Completely Forgets About Radical

  Posted on Friday August 21st, 2009 at 23:00 in Cars, racing, General, supercars, exotic cars, fast cars, expensive cars

  I love the Nürburgring pissing contest. I won’t be satisfied until some rocket-powered insanity kills a dozen heroes in the quest for a five-minute lap time. Gumpert, the brand which sounds slow in the head, is clearly quite fast on the trac...