<![CDATA[Jalopnik: Las Vegas]]> http://cache.jalopnik.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jalopnik.com.png <![CDATA[Jalopnik: Las Vegas]]> http://jalopnik.com/tag/las vegas http://jalopnik.com/tag/las vegas <![CDATA[Video: Dan Wheldon's deadly Las Vegas crash]]> I missed the multi-camera replay from yesterday's horrific IndyCar race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway where Dan Wheldon died. After watching it this morning I can't help but think just how lucky it was that only one driver lost their life. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5850401&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Ferrari owner punches cab driver, makes him cry]]> The driver of this yellow cab apparently crashed into the back of this Ferrari F430 Spider in a Las Vegas parking lot over the weekend. The cabbie caused no serious damage to the Ferrari, but the Ferrari owner caused serious damage to him. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5813466&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Beer, Girls And Go-Karts In Vegas]]> Las Vegas is the city of sin and of some wicked cars. We hit The Strip, enjoyed the sights and ended up doing battle at a local go-kart track. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5714946&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Clueless Casino Thinks MINI Test Car Is A Bomb]]> Security gaurds at the Luxor Las Vegas casino mistook a lightly camouflaged Mini Countryman prototype for a car bomb Saturday night, shutting down the garage and disrupting a Playboy model's swan song. Exclusive photos of the sad, booted Mini below. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5602776&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[15 Reasons Why Evel Knievel Is Still Awesome]]> This fall, the world's most infamous daredevil will have been gone for three years. For no reason whatsoever, we've decided to take a look back. This, in a nutshell, is the life of a daredevil. This is Evel Knievel. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5580902&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Chaparrals In Nevada, Toranas In New South Wales: Stardust Grand Prix '66, Bathurst '75!]]> Scroggs just keeps finding us the great vintage racing videos! How about the final race in Can Am's first season, followed by the Hardie-Ferodo 1000 at Bathurst? More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5424835&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Custom ’59 Cadillacamino Costs $27,000, Won’t Fit in a Single Picture]]> They say what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. Well that's not always the case, and today, Nice Price or Crack Pipe has a Vegas-based custom Caddy that's big enough to bring all your sin city transgressions home with you. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5414814&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[What Car Is Hidden Under This Custom Vegas Cruiser?]]> A reader sent us these shots, without context, of what appears to be American metal shaped into a custom Vegas-style cruiser. The question is: what's hidden underneath the custom metal? More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5297198&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Nissan 370Z And Sports Illustrated Swim Suit Models Are A Recipe For Anorexia]]> Nissan took three SI swimsuit models for an O-face-inducing ride down the famous Vegas strip in three 2009 370Zs. That's a whole lot of forced weight loss in one video, ain't it? More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5159495&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Booth Professionals of the 2008 Guangzhou International Auto Show]]> As a result of covering an auto show or two in our time, we've become veritable connoisseurs regarding the mistresses of motors we lovingly refer to as Booth Professionals. We've brought you delightful displays of debutantes from far away locations such as Geneva, Paris, Las Vegas and Detroit. Apologies for the blurry nature of a few of these pictorials, we've got the shakes from a bit of bad Mu Shu pork. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5096295&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Lamborghini Opens Las Vegas Boutique Featuring Italian Models Of All Types]]> We find it absolutely fitting Lamborghini has opened up a new Las Vegas showroom complete with its first Lamborghini fashion boutique right inside. Why? We've been thinking about it, hard, and there may be no car brand and city more made for each other than Lamborghini and Las Vegas. Gaudy, brash, over the top, extravagant; which are we describing? And what fashion boutique opening would be complete without scantily clad models mixing it up with the crowd? It's like playing "Lamborghini Where's Waldo?" — can you spot the Murcielago? More »
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]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=333043&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Jalopnik at the D1 Grand Prix, Day Two: Finals]]> [Las Vegas stringer Curtis Walker, who hasn't yet sublimated in the desert heat despite short odds to the contrary, brings us day two of the 2007 D1 Grand Prix.]. Narratively, we're always drawn to both underdogs and classic, rear-drive Japanese cars. So we caught up with John Russakoff to get the lowdown on his 1984 Toyota Corolla, the oldest drift car competing in this year's D1 circuit. The AE86 entry started out as a $200 "piece of shit." Twenty-five thousand bucks and a year- and-a-half later, the car was track worthy. Gone is the original Toyota powerplant, in favor of a 2006 Honda S2000 engine and matching six-speed tranny. Russakoff says he's done all of the work on this 1900-lb., 220 hp slider himself. As for his opinion of the searing heat, he says it more of a problem for the intercooled turbos, as they seem to be losing about 10 percent or more of their power. But it makes for a stickier track, and he's happy to have the extra traction. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=278611&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Jalopnik at the D1 Grand Prix, Day One: Practice]]> [Our Las Vegas stringer Curtis Walker is on scene making with the photos and words — ed.] With temps pegged in the triple digits by Friday afternoon, the air above the Las Vegas Motor Speedway hinted at a firestorm. The Formula D Grand Prix is in town, and that means wafts of tire smoke and smolder hanging over the Mojave for most of the weekend. Last year, D1's inaugural drift event was such a hit with the drift kids that more drivers and cars are here from Japan. With 13 of Nippon's finest and 10 domestic drivers vying for one of the 16 slots in Saturday's main event, something is bound to be set off up in here. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=278490&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Planes, Hydroplanes and, Er, Planes]]> Through the glorious bounty of YouTube, we've dug up this episode of Clarkson's old Extreme Machines series, wherein a more-frotastic, younger Jezza flies around in a P-51, bombs across Lake Mead in a hydroplane and then checks out luxo-pimp options in jet travel. Parts 2 &3 after the jump. – Davey G. Johnson More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=274967&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Evel Fails Caesars]]> It's Evel Knievel's tragic fountain jump at Caesar's Palace. What else to we really need to say about one of the Greatest American Hoon's darkest moments? – Davey G. Johnson More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=273413&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Shocker! Vegas Hummer Dealer Flies Outsized Flag!]]> We often think that if one moves to Las Vegas, one gets what one deserves. We have visted few more wretched hives of scum and villainy. We do not understand why people look forward to visiting it. We always leave more exhausted than when we arrived, the architecture is tacky, the people (both the denizens and the visitors) seem to be in a permanent stupor and the traffic sucks. So it's not shocking that a Las Vegas Hummer dealer is flying a massive flag whose flapping is disturbing the lot's residential neighbors. What is shocking is that the neighbors are complaining. Vegas residents, if you don't like it, there's always Wendover. – Davey G. Johnson More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=263413&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Grand Theft Southwest: Your Car is Leaving Las Vegas]]> Why is that cowboy hitching a ride? Because most likely his car's been stolen. Last year, 22,441 vehicles were stolen in and around Las Vegas. Which makes it the #1 place in the USA for such cruel activity. Which somehow makes Oscar Goodman proud. At first blush you might think, "Well, they're close enough to Los Angeles. Thieves can blast out to the desert, take their pick from over thirty different Bentleys with spinners and they make the Kessel Run back home before sun up." But you'd be (mostly) wrong. For if you look at the next four cities on the list — Stockton CA, Visalia-Porterville CA, Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale AZ and the former, three-time consecutive car-theft champion, Modesto CA — the reason becomes clear. Crystal Meth, and lots of it. We just got off the horn with Bakersfield. They're bummed they didn't make the list, but promise to try harder next year. – Jonny Lieberman More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=255015&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Best Little Car Show In Vegas: Viva Las Vegas 10]]> Our 1960 Ford Fairlane 500 driving Vegas homeboy Curtis Walker snuck away from the Las Vegas Grand Prix long enough to stop by Viva Las Vegas 10 at the Gold Coast Hotel & Casino. It was the latest in a decade's worth of rockabilly/hotrod that's gone, daddy. Check out Curtis's photo gallery and wish your pompadour was tight enough and your chick chick enough to have attended in the flesh. – Mike Spinelli More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=250772&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Audi R8 Spotted In Las Vegas Strip Mall]]> Yes, we're just going to go ahead and assume the massage was highly precise. [Hat tip to Zerin!] – Ray Wert More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=219346&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[SEMA Show: How Can You Sell Tires If You Don't Have Any Booth Babes?]]> As Jalopnik photographer-of-the-star-cars Curtis Walker was want to tell us — there are rules for booth babes at SEMA. Apparently, this stuff doesn't just happen by chance — and here's his explanation of where you'll find the booth babes, what they'll be wearing and why — and all with a helpful reference gallery below:
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]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=212694&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Hook 'Em When They're Young: GM's Hooking Up College Journalists With Trips To Vegas, Baby, Vegas]]> The General's West Coast PR maven Diedra Wylie, in an e-mail to reporters and editors of a number of university newspapers, offered a free trip to Vegas this past weekend — with ten Universities reportedly accepting the trip. The program reportedly focused "on car customization culture which is relevant to young adults" and billed as a "great learning opportunity for young journalists." Yes, we'd agree — it's a great opportunity in how to take a free trip and meals from one of the world's largest corporations. And like the tobacco industry, it's important to get in there when they're young and impressionable, despite Wylie's "...hope [the students'] opinion wouldn't be swayed by a free trip." But considering the nature of the event, we'd understand why it's be difficult for young'ins to understand. Here's a way to get through to the journo students. Just explain it's the equivalent of hitting the hay with a local sorostitute — it may seem like a smart idea at the time, but it all changes once the itching and burning begins. Full text of the e-mail after the jump. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=199647&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Koenigsegg CCX to Go On Sale in Vegas]]> Famous for being the only car ever to attempt to kill the Stig on camera, the Koeniggsegg CCX will launch in the US in Las Vegas on Saturday, August 27th in Las Vegas. To be sold by Exotic Cars at Caesar's Palace (because Roman chintz and mirrored ceilings are the perfect compliment to a 260mph supercar), they're throwing a VIP party on August 27th followed by two days of track time at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The 4.7L, twin-turbo supercharged mill pumps out 806hp, and the whole car weighs in at a sprightly 2,200 ton lbs, allowing it to run a 9-second quarter mile at 146. It's sort of obscene that the thing is even road legal. What we wanna know is, who's gonna be the first to have an Enzo Moment in one? More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=193703&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[We Love the Smell of Recovered Vehicles in the Morning: Robert Duvall Busts Auto Theft Ring in Vegas]]> There are at least three guys who won't be going surfing for a while due to the efforts of Lt. Robert Duvall of the LVPD. The Sin City cop and his cohorts busted an auto theft ring and recovered 1.9 million bucks worth of stolen vehicles. The thieves are implicated in at least eight carjackings, plus a number of threats carried out by less-violent means. We just wanna know if they thundered in to the crime scene with sirens wailing and "Ride of the Valkyries" blaring over the PA system. That'd be hot. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=193246&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Bullrun Update: Ditka Would've Taken the Lot of 'Em]]> As the teams first pulled into Chicago, there were conflicting reports as to whether the Magnaflow RS4 driven by Stefan Johannson and Prince Malik came in first or the RENNTech CL600 of Team Reicke came in in the lead position. The Reicke boys, Jay Reicke and Byron Burkhardt, were the confirmed first-placers, rolling in around 7pm, with the RS4 in second. 3rd was the Team Darkcyde support Navigator driven by Jason Garber, beating the team's Lotus. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=189287&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Toshiki Yoshioka Wins Vegas D1GP Event]]> We love Toshiki Yoshioka. When other guys are out on the pro drifting circuit making anywhere from 300-500hp, Yoshioka still kicks it old-school Initial D-style in an AE86 literally held together with tape, zip-ties and Bondo. Coming out of Irwindale's bank during last winter's D1GP event, his wee car sounded like an angst-ridden, steroidal wasp. But hot damn can that boy drive. Yoshioka and Kobushige Kumakubo (another favorite of ours in his badass rear-drive WRX) placed 1-2 at the inaugural D1GP event in Vegas. Now that's a battle we would've loved to have seen. Results after the jump. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=188203&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Ferrari 599 GTB Commercial Video Est Arrive!]]> The product of that video shoot late last year that was reported to show a Ferrari 599GTB Fiorano ripping through canyons of the western US has hit the online. Despite (enhanced by?) lovely French narration by Audrey Tautou (in our mind), the video shows heli-shots of a red 599 being flogged on a road near where the someone from the Donner Party inevitably shouted, "We're almost there!" (actually, it was reportedly shot near Vegas). The video shows no sign of the Ferrari F50 F40 seen in amateur-shot footage of the shoot (see it after the jump). More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=179572&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA['06 SEMA Show Marquee Sponsors: Ford, Chrysler, GM]]> Every year, the SEMA show features a title marque. In the years we've been attending, it's always been one of the Big Three, with the exception of Honda's debut last year. This year, GM, Ford and Chrysler are sharing the ber-sponsorship as a celebration of the American muscle car. We can't decide whether this is a good thing or not; is it a desperate plea for market share, or is it a veneration of the cars that helped make SEMA what it is today? More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=168067&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[New Pics of GM's The Drive in Las Vegas]]> Five, count 'em (actually, don't count 'em; those Vegas casino security officers are scary), five days until GM opens its new "autotainment" amusement park off the Strip in Las Vegas. The Drive will offer two test-drive courses for performance and off-road driving experiences to the public when it opens on April 10, 2006 at the Sahara Hotel & Casino. The company released new promo pics of the park, which unfortunately does not allow betting on the premises. Around the corner, however, they're giving 3:5 on a GM bankruptcy. Just saying. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=165276&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Vegas Pinball Machine King to GM: Your Cars Suck]]> We'd say General Motors most definitely has a perception problem when even the pinball machine king of Las Vegas drops its name as a example of "bumblefucking."
"We're constantly looking at this split between whether we want to go uptown and do this right or do we want to keep bumblefucking along and just worry about the games. We keep saying, 'It's the games, stupid!' I feel like screaming at GM: 'It's the cars, stupid! It's not your corporate structure, it's not your cost structure. Your automobiles suck!'"
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]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=163809&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[GM to Open Las Vegas Test-Drive Courses Later This Year]]> Whatever happens in Vegas, whether it stays there or not, GM hopes it'll lead to more sales of its cars and trucks. The company is building an "autotainment" amusement park featuring two test-drive courses near the Las Vegas strip, on which conventioneer and high roller alike can test drive GM's cars on two separate courses. One, an off-road adventure (pictured), features a loop over dirt terrain and obstacles including inclines, ditches, moguls and water troughs, where visitors can flog a Hummer H2 and H3, Chevy Silverado Diesel, Chevy Tahoe, GMC Yukon Denali, Cadillac Escalade and Chevy Suburban. The second is a "high-performance loop," a paved "route" (don't you dare call it a "track"; you want the boys from legal on our asses?) with "jogs and turns complete with chicanes" on which drivers can sample the Chevy Corvette, Pontiac GTO and Solstice, Cadillac CTS-V and STS-V and Saab 9-3 convertible. GM hopes to attract prospective buyers to the center, which isn't a dealership and guest won't be under pressure to buy — though the company does of course hope to arrange a few marriages. [Thanks to Zerin for the tip.] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=150670&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Champ Car Bails on Vegas, Heads Back to Road America]]> Champ Car bids a tearful adieu to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, saying, "We will continue to research other opportunities for future events in the Las Vegas market that hopefully are a better fit for our business model expectations." But screw all that, because they're replacing the event by coming back Road America! We've never actually driven the famed course at Elkhart Lake, WI, but we did do some funky simulator thingy at SEMA years ago that took you around the track, and well, compared to a 1.5-mile oval, it's kind of a no-brainer, really. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=139966&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Jalopnik Gets Cold, Old, Misses Drags on The Strip]]> We intended to check out the Yahoo! Custom Autos/NOPI heads-up race in front of the venerable Frontier on the Las Vegas Strip the second-to-last night of the SEMA Show. We really did. We sauntered over from the Stardust, met a group of friends over outside Gilley's, attended the poolside outdoor pre-party, consumed a fair amount of industrial-strength Folgers-esque brew and and waited for the 3am kickoff of the drags. Alas, one by one, our friends buggered off for sleep. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=136013&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Real Cool Cliche to Happen in Las Vegas in October]]> Okay, let's get this straight right off the bat: we love traditional hot rods and customs. We love Carl Perkins. We love the Blasters. And we think girls in sexy outfits "inspired" by the fashions of the '50s are really freakin' hot. But we're entirely sick of this whole rockabilly badass lifestyle. Case in point, we were once threatened with a beat-down for admitting we thought electronic fuel injection was a good idea. Seriously. More »
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