Monthly Archives: November 2013

End of the Road for SLS

2014 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Black Series Feature

According to people inside Mercedes-Benz, they will be debuting a special edition at the LA Auto Show in just over a week prophetically named ”Final Edition.” So it seems that the SLS is going away after just four brief years. Sorry to ruin your day. Perhaps even sadder is that the SLS’ powerplant, the magical […]

Survey Shows 70 Percent of Americans Have Never Driven a Diesel

Honeywell recently completed a survey that showed 70 percent of Americans had yet to drive a vehicle with a diesel engine. Because the Ford F-150 is the best-selling passenger vehicle in the United States, if ...

New Series, New Season, New Car for Flying Lizard Motorsports

Flying Lizard Motorsports has had a long association with Porsche. Since the team’s beginning over a decade ago, they have found great success campaigning Porsches in the ALMS series. Porsche pulled their factory backing at the end of the 2012 ALMS season to focus on their return to Le Mans with a Factory based LMP1 [...]

Caption contest: WEC Corvette Pit Ablaze in Shanghai

This past weekend, while you evaluated precisely which “fat pants” you’d wear for the upcoming Thanksgiving feast, two Corvette teams were racing in the Shanghai round of World Endurance Challenge. The action was pretty hot. Then this happened, captured by the Team Larbre Corvette photographer. The fires were extinguished and no one was hurt too […]

The Big Fat SEMA 2013 Modded FR-S Photo Gallery

There were so many FR-S’ at SEMA this year, I didn’t know what to do with them all. Flooding you all with post after post seemed suspiciously like torture, so I’m cutting straight to the good stuff here. Feast your eyes on the smorgasbord of Scion FR-S from SEMA 2013. There are also a few [...]

This Drag Race is Closer than You’d Think – Automatic C7 Corvette vs. GT500

Chevrolet C7 Corvette Stingray versus Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Drag Race

Most people would expect a 662-horsepower Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 to smoke a 455-horsepower C7 Corvette Stingray in a drag race, especially when the Shelby is a manual and the Chevy is an automatic. Take a look at the video below, however, and you’ll see the slushboxed ‘Vette is actually competitive. Was the Stingray somewhat […]

G-Power BMW M3 Hurricane RS Makes 720 HP

The upcoming 4-Series will replace the outgoing 3 Series in BMW’s stable, but that doesn’t mean tuners have turned their backs on the outgoing E92. The German tuning company, G-Power, have unveiled their Hurricane RS M3, and the stats are something to gawk worthy. The Hurricane (a title reserved for only the fastest G-Power creations) [...]