Monthly Archives: September 2013

Spied: Alpina B4

Alpina’s B4 has been caught testing ahead of next year’s release and is clearly spotted sporting Alpina’s traditional multi-spoke wheels, blue brake calipers and quad-outlet exhaust system. The body appears to be a production 4-series coupe, but we expect the Alpina B4 to be equipped with the same engine fitted to the B3– a twin-turbo [...]

Black Fridays: Cummins Ram Blows Smoke, Digs Dirt

I cant tell what exactly is going on in this video of a 3rd gen Dodge Ram powered by a Cummins Turbo Diesel but judging by the positioning of the John Deere tractor behind the truck – it seems as though the truck is hooked up to said tractor. After the driver loads up the ...

Crusty Nova Does 400-Foot Power Wheelie On An 8-Second Pass

So the last time I posted a power wheelie video some people thought it only happened off the bounce on the 1-2 shift of the Corvette in the video. Not this time, nope. The Crusty Nova straight power wheelies for 400 feet off the gas! The wicked little Nova has a 370 CI LS block [...]

The 1965 Porsche 912 Powered by a Chevy Small Block

What do you make of this ’65 Porsche 912 with a big ol’ V8 hanging out the back? Is this sacrilege, or righteous? What’s worse: jettisoning the flat-six out of a 911 and dumping a V8 in its place, or scrapping the wimpy 912′s four-banger in favor of a 327-cubic-inch small block? Think that’s an easy [...]

Photo (Fail) of the Week: A BMW 7 Series for Imposters

Everybody knows a BMW roundel adds 100 horsepower to any vehicle on which it is placed. BMW engineers have the easiest jobs in the world when creating automobiles that begin life as BMWs. For example, they do far less work than other companies’ engineers when creating powerful engines. Whereas other car companies spend hundreds of [...]

Mercedes-Benz Achieves a First with Autonomous Driving

Mercedes-Benz S-Class INTELLIGENT DRIVE Featured

To commemorate the 125th anniversary of Bertha Benz’s famous 100-kilometer drive to promote the automobile’s usefulness, Mercedes-Benz has become “the first motor manufacturer to demonstrate the feasibility of autonomous driving on both interurban and urban routes,” according to the voluminous press release below. We quote that passage because other automakers like Audi have demonstrated autonomous […]

Mercedes’ CLA 45 AMG Racing Is Awesome

As much as I love girls in American flag bikinis (a lot), that’s not why I care about the CLA. Mercedes might be turning to sorta-clothed women and hip advertising to make it appeal to my millenial self, but all they had to do was show me this: I don’t really know what racing series—if […]