..the cars are beautiful.
More cars, less yammering celebrity comedians, please.
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again
•July 13, 2012 • 2 CommentsAn empty dirt or gravel lot just begs for some old fashioned hooning.
Oh, and as much as we adore the Mk1 Golf GTI, here we bet the 1600 owner had more fun 😉
Hat tip to (recurring contributor) Amaury Laparra and Clément Daventure!
(Image credits: Clément Daventure)
The latest Gymkhana is more of the same, albeit in a totally awesome location
•July 12, 2012 • 6 CommentsOkay, the Gymkhana shtick – however impressive – is tired. We wouldn’t exactly be sad if we never saw another one. But the filming location in the latest one is epic. We thought our Bay Area readers might get a kick out of this in particular. Did anyone happen to catch this live?
The city of San Francisco is seriously awesome for signing off on this.
Hat tip to Automobiliac!
What the heck?
•July 11, 2012 • 7 CommentsAston Martin Lagonda Series 1, where have you been all this time? You look incredible!
If there was ever a way of making a Rapide owner instantly feel inadequate, this would be it.
About the car:
1974-1976 ASTON MARTIN Lagonda
Overview
In 1974, the elegant William Towns styled DBS was given 4 doors and a slightly longer wheelbase, creating the Aston Martin Lagonda. Another difference was the far-from-attractive Lagonda style grille. This was the first car since the 1961 Rapide to wear the Lagonda badge, but it was not a success. This can be blamed on the 1974 oil crisis, which seriously limited the appeal of any V8 powered super saloon, let alone one that would rarely see MPG in the double figures. During the two years of production, only seven were sold.
Production: 7
Price at launch: £14,040
Performance
0-60mph: 6.2secs
Top speed: 149mph
Power: 280bhp
Torque: 301lb/ft
Engine
Configuration: V8
Aspiration: normal
Fuel: petrol
Fuel delivery: carburettor
Chassis
Suspension Front: Independent, coil springs
Suspension Rear: De Dion, coil springs
Drivetrain: front-engine RWD
Steering: rack and pinion
Bodyframe: metal monocoque
Transmission: Five-speed manual/Automatic
Dimensions
Length: 4928mm
Wheelbase: 2910mm
Width: 1829mm
Height: 1323mm
Weight: 2000kgs
(source)
Hat tip to Yan!
We’re seeing a cool car renaissance in advertisements and commercials
•July 4, 2012 • 2 CommentsThe result of an uptick in art directors with discerning taste in cars? Perhaps.
Even much-loathed AT&T is getting in on the action. Worth a click— if only just to catch a glimpse of a sweet 60-series Land Cruiser in motion and nothing else (in fact, you are encouraged to watch with the sound off):
900-mile road trip to the interior of the United States in a 1978 Lotus Esprit
•July 3, 2012 • 4 CommentsWill the car make it? Watch to find out 🙂
Hat tip to BaT! (where – you guessed it – the car is on offer)
Reader contribution
•June 29, 2012 • 3 CommentsReader Rob sent in these beautiful images (of beautiful cars) from Gary Emory’s 2012 Parts Obsolete Campout. Thanks Rob!
Oh my.
Death..
..and rebirth. Gotta love it.
Gary Emory (the man behind the annual campout) is synonymous with “Outlaw” Porsches. An (entertaining) excerpt from a bio found on his website:
If there are two poles that define the continuum of Porsche pursuit, one would be labeled Concours and the other Consume.
On the one hand, you have the concours police, vigorously patrolling the Porsche kingdom in Targa cruisers marked “To Preserve and Polish.” This force, invested with sacred edicts from the factory, determines transgressions against originality and metes out appropriate punishment in the form of Black Forest demerits. To these purist custodians, simply driving a Porsche is an unpardonable sin.
At the other extreme, you can find an equally demented group of Porsche perverts who actually believe their cars were built to be driven daily on real roads. This clan remains steadfastly insensitive to the mandates of the concours polizei, instead concerning themselves with pressing issues like tire inflation and shock valving. The driving brigade rates itself on a sliding scale based on nanoseconds of tardiness. Always pressed for time this sect issues Space Saver demerits to the lap-time impaired.
Gary Emory’s friends call him “the Outlaw.” Guess which end of the spectrum you can find him on.
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