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#formulaone
Kimi Räikkönen Gets Used To Bad Rally Weather
Soaking up an Italian downpour in his McLaren MP4-17 is the Citroën Junior Team’s new rally driver Kimi Räikkönen, returning to the pits during free practice at the 2002 San Marino Grand Prix. More » -
#newcars
How Not To Introduce Your Ugly Supercar
This video is the 627 HP, BMW M5 V10-powered Tirrito Vajon's embarrassing coming out party. The car will also appear at the 2010 Top Marques Monaco, hopefully without Evanescence. [Tirrito Cars] -
#autobrandslapfight
Audi Vs. BMW: quattro, FTW!
If this picture from yesterday's YDIW gallery looks like a snowy driveway to you, you're not an Audi fan-boy. If you were, you'd know it represents the ultimate wet dream of you and every BMW-hating Audi owner the world over. More » -
#tunercars
World's Fastest Street-Legal SUV: Brabus GLK V12 Hits 200 MPH!
Insane German tuner Brabus stuffed their 750 HP 6.3-liter Biturbo V12 into a GLK and raced it around the Nardo high-speed track. The result? At 200.3 MP Brabus GLK V12, making it the fastest street-legal SUV in the world.
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#celebrities
Why Is Julia Allison In A Furry-Filled Exotic Car Rental Commercial?
Your guess is as good as ours for why Midway Car Rental used made-into-a-star-by-Gawker Julia Allison as their headliner in their quick flick commercial featuring an Audi R8 and a Ferrari California. Furries, Ferraris and Fameballers, oh my! More » -
#customcars
Ferrari P540 Superfast Aperta: The Golden 599
Inspired by a Luigi Chinetti-owned 330 LM used in an obscure Fellini film, the Ferrari P540 Superfast Aperta is a 599 GTB Fiorano-based one-off Pinfinarina designed for the son of the creator of cable TV. Pictures of the gold beauty below. More » -
#carporn
Racing In Super Slow Motion Makes Even Crashes Look Sexy
Taking the concept of car porn literally, this video opens with a big, round set of wheels bathed in soap, then quickly moves on to panning through the voluptuous curves of a Renault F1 car. Now where's that kleenex? More » -
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#carculture
Google Trains Quantum Supercomputer Search Engine With Car Pictures
Google's fooling around with quantum supercomputers for faster, next-gen searches and starting off by training one to hunt through huge galleries to automagically identify pictures with cars in them. Might make hunting for that perfect MGA much easier. [NewScientist] -
#lolcars
And Now, For A Moment Of Bumper Car Zen
A Buddhist monk wears a conflicted look as he takes some time on the bumper cars. [Asset.Soup] -
#celebrities
Tiger Woods Wife Outrun: What's Your High Score?
Making its way around the Jalopnik HQ today is the link to Break.com's game Tiger Woods Wife Outrun where you help Tiger escape a very angry-looking Ellin by guiding his Escalade through the obstacles. What's your top score?
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#tunercars
Second Bertone Mantide Sold To Dubai For $1.95 Million
People realize the Bertone Mantide is based on the $103,300 Corvette ZR1, right? I mean, we agree the interior is awful, but it's not the kind of problem it should take an extra $1.82 million to fix. More » -
#toycars
Japanese Wall-Climbing Laser-Controlled Cars All We Want For Christmas
Takara Tomy already had our interest with Aero Spider cars, capable of racing up walls with the use of reverse suction fans. Now they blast into awesome with "laser" control. Thank Gamera there's video of these wall-climbing machines in action. More » -
#lolcars
Is Your Toilet Saying "Zuul?"
If you're going to operate a plumbing business, might as well have some fun with the advertising. This was spotted on the back of a Mercedes Sprinter. We're assuming the Sewage Engineering Consultant thought of it. [Fueltopia] -
#carnames
Ten Most Optimistic Car Names Of All Time
There are laws preventing automakers from making outrageous and false promises about their vehicles — but these laws don't apply to car names. With the help of our readers we've identified the ten most optimistic car names of all time. More » -
#questionoftheday
What's The Worst Car Of The Decade?
The end of the decade only comes once every, umm... every eight years or something. To better appreciate an era of serious highs and lows we wanna know: what's the worst car of the decade? More » -
#engineporn
The Calendar For Your Heavy Equipment Hard-On
Marcus Mumbach, of German website Bauforum24, "Das Portal fur Bau und Baumaschinen," ("Bau" means construction — you can probably figure out the rest), has helped complete the site's first Heavy Equipment Calendar for 2010. It's pure machine porn. More » -
#toycars
Toy Cars On Toy Tokyo Streets In Epic Stop-Motion Action Movie
This stop-motion movie's plot is harder to figure out than a Michael Bay flick, but luckily the toy-car-on-toy-car action is even more epic. Who knew toy soldiers were such good drivers? More » -
#downonthestreetbonusedition
First-Gen Honda Civic Stalks GM's DC Office, Taunts Staff By Running For 30-Plus Years
Quick announcement: Will the owner of the rust-on-white first-gen Honda Civic parked outside GM's Washington DC office please stop stalking the office staff and remove your vehicle from out front. You're sort of freaking them out. More » -
#detroitautoshow
MINI Off-Road "Moke" Concept Coming To Detroit
MotoringFile's reporting we'll see MINI's next concept car, a more-butch-than-the-crossover-concept R60-based "Moke" concept that may foreshadow a coming production version, unveiled at next month's Detroit Auto Show. More » -
#lolcars
Chris Harris Hits 100 MPH In 7.9 Seconds While Drinking Coke
The 2010 Porsche 911 Turbo can hit 100 MPH in under eight seconds yet is apparently so boring you can drink coke while doing so. We miss Porsches that would kill you as soon as look at you. More » -
#nicepriceorcrackpipe
The Spirit of Dodge’s Past Tries to Haunt Up $3,100!
Cheerleaders have spirit, yes they do, they have spirit, how ‘bout you? Today, Nice Price or Crack Pipe is shaking our pom-poms for a Dodge Spirit, to see if it's anything to cheer about. More » - Yesterday - December 10, 2009
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#racinggames
Chest-Mounted Projector Makes Need for Speed Amazing Everywhere
This is an ad for Epson projectors and running it means we're promoting their "viral marketing" effort. We don't care. Playing Need for Speed everywhere you go by shooting HD video from your chest is heroically awesome. -
#google
Musician Finds Minor Fame by Stalking Google Street View Car
When Nate Heagy heard that the Google Street View team was coming to his town, he quickly hatched a plan to promote his band: He would stalk out the Street View van until he managed to get his picture taken. [Gizmodo] -
#carporn
Now That's How You Cool Your Brakes
The multi-piped brake cooling on the absolutely epic FIA GT GT1-Spec Nissan GT-R is absolutely epic. [via GTRBlog] -
#newcars
Good news! The 2011 Mazda MX-5 will get the Sky-G engine and be lighter [Edmunds]
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#lolcars
BMW Buried In Snow: Reason #544 To Avoid Canada
This week's storm tracked far enough north to give Canada over six feet of snow this weekend, still, the friendly nation suffers enough petty crime for this E90 3-series' window to get broken before it was buried. More snow-denfreude below.
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#carporn
Fantasy Garage Wall Art: Japanese Bullitt Poster
We love Bullitt the film, the car and the iconic leaning-McQueen film poster. What's it missing? Jacqueline Bisset right in the middle. Thanks, Japan. [CinemaIsDope.com via @HemmingsNews] -
#advertisement
Your Wish for a Ridiculously Large Television Granted Today
Save $330 on an LG 32" Full HD LCD HDTV at CompUSA.com, thanks to AMEX Daily Wish. Sale starts today and only 100 are available, so snap one up now! -
#doingitwrong
You're Doing It Wrong 7.0: Ho-Ho-Horrible Edition
It's the holiday season and we don't care if you've been naughty or nice because we've got a big bag full of automotive FAIL waiting for you underneath our Doing It Wrong Hanukkah bush. More » -
#hoonoftheday
Police Chase Ends With Epic 20-Foot High Jump
A Florida police chase ended abruptly when the alleged criminal went off-road, into a drainage ditch, hit a hill, then launched himself 20 feet in the air and into a tree. He's in the hospital now. We're betting jail next. More » -
#supercars
SL73 AMG: The Pagani Zonda's Evil Sire
7.3-liter V12’s don’t grow in peach orchards. Before AMG gave Pagani the monster engine to propel the Zonda, they built it for one of their own cars: the ferocious SL73. More » -
#futuretransportation
Your Future Automotive Awesomeness: Fiction vs. Reality
The car's come a long way since Ford started mass production 100 years ago, but science fiction takes transportation even further. Here are six scenarios for the future of driving, and the real-life developments that could make them happen. [io9]
