Filed under: Aftermarket, Sedan, Performance, Mercedes-Benz, Luxury You can’t even buy the 2014 Mercedes-Benz S-Class yet, but Brabus is ready to help you prepare for it. The German tuning house has engineered a suite of upgrades for the sedan that does just about everything but provide a button for its Read more
I know we feature the Ferrari 458 a lot here on Weekend Wallpaper, but there’s just one problem. No matter what angle you look at it from, no matter what the context or the lighting, it just looks so damn good. Read more…
Filed under: Volkswagen, Humor, Skoda Skoda, oh Skoda. You’re just so cool. Maybe it’s the fact that it’s a brand that we don’t get in these United States, but Skoda’s rebadged Volkswagens, in particular the new Octavia vRS shown here, are just different enough from the hum-drum VWs on our Read more
Filed under: Europe, Government/Legal, Safety, Mercedes-Benz The brief alphanumerics R134a and R1234yf are codes for a growing battle between carmakers, states and the EU. The air-conditioning refrigerant R134a has been banned by the EU for being too damaging to the environment, with R1234yf mandated as its replacement. Daimler and Volkswagen Read more
Welcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we’ve got reports from MotoringConBrio, Hooniverse, and PistonHeads. Read more…
New Roadkill! Mini bikes and a hot rod ’74 Chevy shortbed stepside. Holy crapola do I want that truck. (Hat tip to Sparf!) Read more…
Filed under: Etc., Safety, Videos, Motorcycle Nick O’Leary, grandson of golf legend Jack Nicklaus and starting tight end for the Florida State Seminoles, received a rather brutal lesson in the laws of physics. An inattentive Lexus driver pulled out in front of the FSU player while he was traveling along Read more
Filed under: Spy Photos, Coupe, Performance, Luxury, McLaren Seems the McLaren MP4-12C Spider recently seen at the Nürburgring wearing slight camo on its front end wasn’t hiding a facelift for the current car, but rather technology for its coming entry-level model known as P13. You’ll see that our spies have Read more
Jaguar did an awful lot of things very, very right with the new Jaguar F-Type. It looks fantastic, it sounds like the devil’s own V8-powered sexbot, and is both surprisingly easy and rewarding to drive. My only complaints about the car come from a perverse desire to see something with Read more
BrownDogWelding does to metal what Horacio Pagani does to sheets of carbon fiber: he merges them in the most artistic fashion. Read more…