Hennessey Corvette ZR1: World's Quickest Blue Devil

Everyone's favorite Viper tuner Hennessey has reached out, left its shell, and made a few new friends. One of those new friends is the Corvette ZR1, and the results are spectacular. More »

2009 Caparo T1 Launches At Salon Privé

The latest version of everyone's favorite beastie-of-a-hypercar that tried to kill Jeremy Clarkson, the 2009 Caparo T1, is due to make an appearance today at London's favourite motoring party, Salon Privé. Gag. More »

This 1963 Corvette Is The Fastest Street-Legal Car Ever

Rod Saboury's twin-turbocharged small block '63 Corvette exemplifies sick with a side of fries by laying down a 6.95 quarter-mile just after some drive-thru Micky Ding's. Here's how. More »

Fast And Furious 4 Super Bowl Trailer: Hot Girl-On-Girl, Car-On-Car Action

What’s better than two girls making out? How about a Super Bowl ad that combines hot lesbians with car crashes? We give you the trailer for Fast And Furious 4. More »

Vin Diesel's Chevelle Pops A Fast, Furious WheelStand In New Movie

This here is some leaked video from the set of the fourth installment of the rice-sploitation The Fast And The Furious movie franchise. Remember that famous scene at the end of the first film, where Vin Diesel's blown Dodge Charger pops a massive WheelStand (by the way, we never remember if it's two words or if the "S" is capitalized — but we like how this looks)? Well it looks like the pacifier is at it again, this time in a Chevelle. Lined up against the Chevy looks to be a BMW M5, Nissan Silvia, and Skyline GT-R. Now if you're not a FatF fanboy, this raw footage is still enjoyable, seeing as it's lacking any of the mind-numbing dialogue and ridiculous story line the upcoming movie will likely have. More »

Mach Freunden Mit Dein Schnell: A Post to Pacify Wert

We're not sure if TeeVee Wert really wanted to go on the Bullrun, as he made some namby-pamby excuse about being stuck at some Ferrari party because he needed to impress some girl and dragged Austin with him, thus leaving the fully-awesome Skiny without Jalopnik pals to hang out with in Detroit (note to people in general — you're missing out on radness if you don't hang with Skiny, he's probably nicer than you, we're willing to bet he's faster than you and he's undoubtedly cooler than you). More »

Breaking! Volkswagen Represents Deutschland, Double 2nd Quarter Profits

VW, the "Fast" automaker and maker of all things un-pimped, saw second quarter profit more than double, primarily due to a one-time gain from the sale of its EuropCar rental unit, shed earlier this year. The German automaker earned 859 million ($1.08 billion) in the second quarter of 2006, up from the 333 million euros from the last year-to-year quarter. That blew away estimates of 824 million ($1.04 billion). But all those profits weren't just a one-time thing. VDub also saw a sales jump of 8% during the same period. Not bad for a car company selling a vehicle called a "rabbit." More »

Volkswagen Beats Out Adidas For Major Advertising Silliness

We normally wouldn't be covering this at all — but gosh darn it, if it involves VW's "Fast" we're on it like white on rice...unless the rice is brown...then...well, you get the point. Anyway — Volkswagen just snagged some major award-age with a win over Adidas (and 620 other opponents) for the "Sales Promotion Grand Prix" at the Cannes Lions International Ad Festival. Apparently the Promo Lions ad thing is new this year — but from what we hear — it's pretty cool an American company won — and even cooler that it was automotive-related. Well, if it's highly implausible for a win by the US team in the World Cup — at least we'll always have Cannes. U-S-A! U-S-A! More »

Make Friends With Your Fast On MySpace

You know, it totally seemed like MySpace was getting a bit Faster this month. It must have been that wascally wabbit, VW's turbo-charged speed demon itself, the Fast. VW's GTI MKV spokes-bunny has been spotted recently on MySpace — obviously looking for some fluff-bunnies to help him pet his own Fast. Sorry crazy bunny-demon, but despite one of us professing his love for ya — he's already taken. Shoulda made him your MySpace friend Faster. (hat tip to mattias) More »

Your Fast Is Teh Suck

God bless you, Jalopnik readers. The Jalopnik B-team can't afford to buy magazines (yet), so when we need to find out about a good print ad, you're there to send it to us. Or maybe you just make up fake print ads, we don't know. But either a Subaru or a big Subaru fan is sick of the VW Fast ads, and here is the response. Ray still loves his fast, he was all like "What's a Subaru anyway, something that gets [bleeped in the bleep] by Toyota?" A full size photo, and more, after the jump: More »

What's Up Doc? VW Goes Back To The Future With The Wascally Rabbit!

Our mom's had a number of cars over the years, and every time she pops the wrapper on a new one, she gets herself a personalized plate to smack on the back. Her latest is "MOMS BMW," but her first was "MOMS VW" and it was for her little VDub Rabbit. Well Mom, if yer interested in some nostalgia, it looks as though Volkswagen is re-branding the Golf as the Rabbit. Excellent. Yet somehow we doubt Mom's gonna be tradin' in her Beemer for a VDub, no matter what her Fast tells her. Come to think of it...our Fast DOES look like a rabbit. Why didn't we call this sooner? More »

Our Fast is Only a Little Gassy

We often hear voices inside of our heads. Our little VDub gremlin is already well known for the following nuggets of wisdom: More »