Welcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we’ve got reports from Wired:Autopia, Vanity Fair, and The Truth About Cars. Read more…
In order to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Porsche 911, several of them showed up to parade around England’s Silverstone Circuit this weekend. And by several, I mean a record-breaking 1,208 of them. Read more…
Filed under: Videos, Mercedes-Benz Worker anthems are always dicey (Exhibit A: the Hyundai Steel song), focused as they are on ideologies and products that usually don’t register beyond the bounds of the factory floor and burdened with dirge-like tunes and queerly reverential lyrics. Mercedes-Benz created a peppy tribute to its Read more
Top Gear! It’s on TV tonight. Or, if you’re not a Brit, on your computer screens thanks to the power of the Internet. Read more…
Filed under: Videos, Motorcycle, Design/Style This motorcycle embraces two very different dynamics. On the one hand, it’s quite possibly the most expensive motorcycle ever built, with some experts speculating that the frame alone is worth $1 million. On the other hand, it looks old and beaten up, like a steampunk Read more
Filed under: Classics, Marketing/Advertising, Videos, TV/Movies The conductor and orchestra – and the chap who’s tap-dancing on the rear fender – are life sized. The Studebaker they’re having a ball in and on, however, is ginormous; it’s a massive wooden prop for a promo film from 1930 called Wild Flowers, Read more
Phil Fish is the creator of a very popular and much loved video game called Fez. He’s also the target of a lot of internet hatred. The latest hate burst has been so intense that he’s calling it quits, canceling the second part of his original masterwork. Read more…
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