The A-Team was a pop culture phenomenon of the Eighties on par with Knight Rider and The Dukes of Hazard. And since Hannibal, B.A., Face and Murdoch hold a special place in the hearts and minds of Gen-Xers, it was only a matter of time before the super-fake action show hit the silver screen. After [...]
It’s no secret that how you drive influences a vehicle’s efficiency. Case in point: This week’s Global Green Challenge in Australia where Simon Hackett shipped his 2008 Tesla Roadster down under and proceeded to set a new world record for a production battery-powered vehicle. Hackett and co-driver Emilis Prelgauskas managed to squeeze 313 miles out [...]
This is an official sketch of Mitsubishi’s new compact crossover model that will go on sale first in Japan in February 2010 with Europe and other markets following in the summer of the same year. It is derived from the Concept-cX show car that was revealed at the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show in Germany and [...]
There are good rally videos, bad rally videos and ugly rally videos. There are even other totally unsafe for work Irish rally videos. But then there’s this video. Now, we love swearing. It’s like a form of meditation. Dirty yoga let’s call it. Speaking of Eastern philosophies, there’s an old Taoist saying, “When the student [...]
The first concept version was unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show in 2005, and more concept unveiled in 2007 and 2008. But we are lucky that at the Tokyo Motorshow 2009 was the production model and anyone can start buying it at the price of BND$525,000 and rumors told us that 3 out of 500 [...]
When we think about off-road prowess, brands like Land Rover, Jeep and Hummer come to mind. We’ve never once considered putting BMW on that list, though the Ultimate Driving Machine gets its kudos for its on-pavement athletic talent. That predisposition could change after watching a rough-and-ready BMW X5 go all “monster truck” on a pair [...]
What you see pictured here is a conceptual vision for a 2+2 sports coupe with reverse opening rear doors designed to replace the current Mazda RX-8. The so-called Mazda RX-Z was conceived by Romanian design student, Adrian Ciprian who took a different -but not necessarily better- styling approach ditching most typical new-generation Mazda design cues [...]
The BMW Group is no stranger to ‘artsy’ vehicles. From the renowned BMW Art Cars to the provocative MINI creations, the German company is more than willing to turn its cars into a canvas for artists to work on. This particular MINI was crafted by KRINK creator and graffiti influencer, Craig “KR” Costello.
The NY artist [...]
The crew from Japan’s BestCar magazine have apparently taken the initial pics of the Toyota FT-86 concept and grafted a unique nose, rear fascia and wheels onto ToMoCo’s new sports coupe, and while the result is less-than-fetching, the accompanying report offers a pseudo-confirmation of what’s been suspected all along.
According to BestCar’s (notoriously unnamed) sources, the [...]
Last Sunday 25th October 2009, Ford Fest returns with Off road rally to Ulu Tutong and It started off at the Ford showroom Beribi. Its a very big opportunity for all of their Ford 4×4 customers to participate and to test their vehicle limits on the terrain available. We were amazed with technical difficult existed [...]
You know the famous soccer announcer (football to you internationals), Andrés Cantor, who screams “Goooooaaaallllll” after a score? A bit of performance genius has had some Japanese drift announcers overcome in similar ecstasy. When M. Kawabata launched his Nissan S13 (a 240 SX to us Yanks) into the corner, he threw the car around so [...]
While the idea of a performance-tuned hybrid may have seemed nonsensical only a couple of years ago, as the earth-friendly vehicles become more mainstream, the sub-segment will undoubtedly grow to attract a fair share of our attention. Case in point: reports from overseas indicate that Mugen is seriously toying with the idea of creating a [...]
