Author Archives: Derek Shiekhi

Say It Ain’t So: No CSL Treatment for the new M3 and M4

BMW brass has announced there will not be a lightweight CSL version of the new M3 sedan and M4 coupe. Today is ruined! Wait… That’s because the German company has already made its new M models CSL-lean? Whew! Matt Collins, a BMW product manager, confirms it: “We’ve made them as light as possible – they [...]

Jaguar’s Super Bowl Commercial Makes Being Bad and British Look Cool

Jaguar’s first Super Bowl commercial morphs the old saying “Why do bad things happen to good people?” into “Why do awesome things happen to evil people?” Sir Ben Kingsley, Tom Hiddleston and Mark Strong have done terrible things as film villains. Yet, they get to have all the fun. Kingsley, also known as Don Logan… [...]

The Fast Lane Car Takes the Bentley Continental GTC Speed from 0-60

I’m not going to lie. Given the amount of things in which he’s appeared (TV shows, movies, commercials), I honestly thought Larry the Cable Guy recently made a guest appearance on The Fast Lane Car. He did not. It turned out to be Nathan Adlen, TFLCar.com’s senior editor and presenter. Oops! (I blame the similar [...]

Car Porn: The 2013 “Italian Happening”

Tip: Buy a ticket to Plymouth, Michigan. You’re welcome. You’ve just been given the heads-up on a chance to experience The Italian Happening, a car and motorbike show which was most recently hosted by the Alfa Romeo Owners Club of Detroit. The only scary thing about this happening is how jacked your adrenaline will be [...]

/DRIVE Reviews the Porsche Panamera GTS

Just as Matt Farah did recently, /DRIVE’s Mike Musto got behind the wheel of an (until a few years ago) unusual Porsche – the four-door Panamera GTS. Whereas Farah knocked the Cayenne Diesel for its poor value and preferred two of its competitors, Musto was perfectly content with the Stuttgart company’s humpback human hauler. As [...]

AutoBlog Reviews the CLA45 AMG

Dec. 25 came and went several weeks ago, but, recently, AutoBlog’s Steven J. Ewing probably felt as if it was Christmas morning every time he stepped out his front door and saw a Mercedes-Benz CLA45 AMG waiting for him. No matter the timing, it must have been because he was a good boy last year. […]

Sold! First Production 2014 Camaro Z/28 Drives $650K into a Charity

We recently announced Chevy’s official pricing of the new road-course-carving Camaro Z/28 and a lot of you said $75,000 is WAY too expensive. Even if it does buy a hand-crafted 7.0-liter V8 with 505 horsepower and 481 foot-pounds of twist. Rick Hendrick, however, did not share that sentiment. The automobile dealership mogul and NASCAR team owner plunked [...]