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For decades the McLaren name has been synonymous with Formula One racing and stratospherically-priced super cars. Today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe ASC McLaren Mustang proves that wasn't always the case, but at nearly eleven grand is its price synonymous... with Crack? More »
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While it's Nissan Week here at Nice Price or Crack Pipe, that doesn't mean we'd kick crazy aunt Infiniti to the curb, so today we're going to give her a spin, and see if she'll drop her top for us. More »
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Big Dodge Viper Fan? Have $295,000 burning a hole in your pocket? Always wanted to own one of the fastest, rarest Vipers ever made? Well we've got the car for you. More »
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One of the most tired cliches in all of autojournodom is "Darth Vader's Ride." You've read it one million times, I've used the phrase several hundred dozen times and we think of it every time a pitch-black Corvette Z06 passes by. It's old, it's worn and until further notice, the Maybach Excelero owns that appellation forever. Nonetheless, we're old enough to remember the first time an all-black coupe was mentioned in the same sentence as the Dark Lord of the Sith. Twenty years ago, it was good old Car & Driver that (as we recall) created the trope when they subtitled a piece on the special-edition Buick GNX, "Darth Vader, Your Car Is Ready." For a 12-year-old car nut with Empire Strikes Back bedsheets and two or three shoe boxes filled with Star Wars trading cards, that was enough to peg the GNX as the coolest car ever. Even better, my father's childhood friend Joe Silverman showed up to my Bar Mitzvah in a pitch-black GNX and took me on a joyride. Obviously, that was the highlight of my passage into manhood. Two decades later, very little has changed. More »
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According to the folks so in love with Mopar, they're Allpar, the 2008 Jeep Liberty spy shots from the other day that I positively orgasmed over were missing a shot from a very key direction — up top. Here's why, according to spy shot mistress, Brenda Priddy: More »
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Although specialty builder and supplier ASC Incorporated unveiled its Helios concept, a lattice-structured ragtop based on a 300C four-door sedan, at the Detroit show last year, word on the street is the German-American hybrid's rejected the ASC design due to cost considerations and feasability studies. Instead, Motor Trend is reporting the 'merican side of the cross-Atlantic merger of equals has contracted with another cross-Atlantic merger of equals, the Austrian/Canadian killer combo of Magna-Steyr to build a Karmann-style retractable folding steel roof for the next design iteration of the big gangsta sedan. Of course, they've been mulling over this idea forever — so who knows whether this is real or Memorex. More »
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Specialty car and coachwork supplier American Specialty Cars (ASC) — builder of the convertible Chrysler 300C "Helios" — will bring two open-top concepts to warm and sunny downtown Detroit next week for the NAIAS show. The Cosmos is a Hummer H3 equipped with a new fabric-top system that can open the truck's entire cabin to the elements, or cover the passenger or cargo areas exclusively; the second, yet to be announced, will sport a panoramic sunroof that employs panels made from Lexan, which is some kind of mutant plastic. No word on production of the "Sunvertibles," but ASC will likely offer them as part of an aftermarket conversion package sometime in the near future. More »
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