Walter De Silva designed a Lamborghini Egoista as a fiftieth anniversary special to the Lambo-obsessed. I’ll let you decide how you feel about it:
Lamborghini Egoista, designed by Walter de Silva
It looks amazing from the side, bizarre from head-on. And the name, well, it fits. . .
If I may offer you a little tip in your dealings with aviators, be careful with listening to their reasoning when something goes wrong. I particularly like what Ray Siebring had to say after a wee mishap: It seemed there was an anomaly on our approach to landing. I probably should give you the title of the article where this gem was found: Flying car crashes near school in Vernon, B.C. That was some anomaly, Ray. . .
Considering Ex Bootneck’s post below on Sir Winston, it is my duty to inform you that Sabri and Saliha Cakar are selling a car used by the great man:
Experts believe the vintage Daimler DB 18 Drophead Coupe is the only one of its kind left.
Germany-based seller Sabri Cakar says the U.K. prime minister used the car between 1944 and 1949.
Bids in the auction, which ends Monday shortly after 7 p.m. (1700 GMT), already top 470,000 euros ($616,000).
Cakar said original registration documents confirm the authenticity of the silver and black coupe.
The authenticity of the car was previously checked by British auction house Historics at Brooklands, which tried but failed to sell the vehicle earlier.
Company auction director, Edward Bridger-Stille, said it was “unusual” to sell such a car to the general public on eBay.
Sabri Carkan and his wife Saliha stand behind a Daimler DB 18 Drophead Coupe in their showroom in Enger, Germany.
Utterly beautiful car, but out of my price range. . .
Hey, you got an extra quarter? How about buying a Ferrari F430 Spider?
FERRARI F430 SPIDER – JPY25
Honestly, I am not sure if this is a scam or not. (Accch, nevermind. It is a MLM scam.)
Although I am not a NASCAR junkie, I’ve been told Jeff Gordon is not cool. I honestly thought the very opposite once I saw his Pepsi MAX video at a car dealership. An undercover Jeff Gordon takes a test-drive in a Camaro. (I don’t even care if it is real or fake.) Oh yeah. . .
Volvo is building radar into their cars that can scan for cyclists and pedestrians. An additional fact I learned from the article, Volvo is a Swedish-Chinese automaker. And from a link off the article, ladies who work at car shows as models are called booth professionals.
What are the chances of this, that Lamborghini and Ferrari release their newest and fastest cars within days of each other? The Lambo Veneno:
Lamborghini Veneno
LaFerrari
LaFerrari? Is that sort of like Kip’s (Napoleon Dynamite) girlfriend Lafawnduh?
When have you heard of a vehicle described as: angrier or lumpier? Or that it looks like a grimacing Decepticon or that it has a polarizing face?
2014 Jeep Cherokee
Sure, the below 2014 Chevrolet SS packs a big 415 hp, but could not the car designers have added a little styling to the Chevy Lumina-like dud:
2014 Chevrolet SS performance sedan is Chevrolet’s first rear wheel drive performance sedan in 17 years. The SS will also be the Chevrolet muscle car entry in the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup series.
The only thing visible that looks to be an upgrade from older Chevys are the LED lights.
The VL Destino took a highly tuned Corvette engine and plunked it into the Fisker Karma body. Eco-greenies are probably not too pleased, but at least the VL Destino will not catch on fire like the hybrid Fisker did:
VL Destino = Corvette engine and Fisker Karma body
I still like the tech of the K-MAX better though. . .
Blackadder, Rowan Atkinson
I was tempted to think that this was a joke, that Mr. Bean, ol’ Rowan Atkinson, tricked his insurance company into paying $1.4 million to fix a car he paid a warm 1 mill for in 1997.
His maroon McLaren F1 was severely damaged after Edmund Blackadder hit a slippery patch. He is lucky that the car is highly collectable. I just saw one in the television show Person of Interest, as the car of a billionaire techie.
Still, I will not be investing in one. I have to think of gas mileage on my long commute.
There is a retired Navy Warrant Officer who owns a BMW M5. I know, cuz I’ve sat in it when a certain female buddy of his, also a naval officer, has winged it around curves, dragged straightaways, taken off-ramps on a maximum of three tires. All the while you’d find me gently cooing to myself, alternating between Keep it together, man and Papa like, papa really like. . .
However monstrous that BMW M5 was, it pales in comparison to the new BMW M5:
2013 BMW M5
Here is a list of syllables I’ve uttered while checking the speedometer in the Bavarian company’s new 560-horsepower, 190-miles-per-hour supersedan: J’aah! Gawwwwwddd. Nooo! Like its rivals in the factory-tuner sedan wars—the Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG S-Model, the Audi RS6, the Cadillac CTS-V, the Jaguar XFR-S—the M5 is a breathtaking, world-blurring outrage, a fast car for real nutters, people whose egos generate their own weather. . .
et me hit you with some numbers, courtesy of our friends at Car and Driver: 0-60 mph in 3.7 seconds; quarter-mile in 12 flat; 0-150 mph in 18.3 seconds. I’m pretty sure this $90,000-plus, 4,387-pound, five-seat executive saloon is quicker, and would be faster in one lap around your average road course, than a Ferrari F430. I’m no theologian, but somebody has got to go to Hell for this.
Now we gotta talk the Warrant into upgrading. . .
The Middle East is infamous for not producing anything other than oil, hummus, and pop-songs with habibi in them. Chalk up the Lykan Hypersport, from Lebanese entrepreneur and designer Ralph Debbas’ W Motors, as the first supercar from the region:
Lykan Hypersport, from Dubai-based startup W Motors
Supercars are a common sight in some parts of the Middle East, but until now, that region of the world has gone without an exotic of its own. Enter the Lykan Hypersport, an ultra-exclusive ride from Dubai-based startup W Motors. The upcoming car is said to accelerate from 0-62 mph in 2.8 seconds and offer Lamborghini-rivaling style for $3.4 million, according to WardsAuto.
The Lykan Hypersport is the brainchild of Lebanese entrepreneur and designer Ralph Debbas, who began thinking up the supercar when he was an automotive design student. The wild, angular seven-figure exotic will be officially revealed to the public at the Qatar auto show, where W Motors will display a full-scale model made of carbon fiber and other lightweight materials, and built with help from specialty coachbuilder Magna Steyr Torino. The model currently lacks an interior and drivetrain, but will be powered by a midship flat-six engine from RUF, the company famous for custom Porsches.
Hey habibi, this sled is you!
In French, the word for lemon is citron. And oddly, one of the main car companies in France is Citroën. Not sure the genius who came up with that brand. The good news: Peugeot Citroën says its “Hybrid Air” engine system, which runs on gas and compressed air — rather than on gas and electricity, like most current hybrid vehicles — should be ready for the road by 2016. I eagerly await any breakthroughs in this sort of tech. Life gives you citrons, you make limonade. . .
We might as well end our little Corvette extravaganza with news of another Corvette, a 1958 Chevrolet Corvette owned by General Motors CEO Dan Akerson. There you go, no more Corvies, promise. (In other vehicle news, you might want to check out George W. Bush’s truck. It sold for 300,000!)
Since we did the new Corvette Stingray earlier in the week, I feel compelled to give you a shot of the 2014 Corvette Convertible. This photo was supposedly leaked after the Stingray popped up at the 2013 Detroit Auto Show:
2014 Corvette Convertible, leaked by Cheverolet?
That should be the last Corvette picture for some time. I need to post some Lambos to even things out. And maybe a Shelby GT. Or a Kawasaki Ninja of some sort. And…