Author Archives: Tim Wu

Fake LS Swapped Prius Listed in Seattle

Stories like this boil my blood. Actually, a lot of scammy things on Craigslist boil my blood, but I do admit the often-entertaining (and perhaps horrifying) bits tend to balance it out. Originally they were publicly shamed by the good people at Jalopnik, but the story goes like this: A seller in Seattle listed a [...]

Meet the Reaper, Chevy’s Raptor Killer

Performance truck fans rejoice, we’ve an arms race on our hands. With an eerily similar, but (imo) ever more menacing name to the highly acclaimed Ford Raptor, the special edition Chevrolet Silverado Reaper storms in as the brainchild of Lingenfelter & Southern Comfort Automotive. How are Reapers born? First, start with a 2014 Chevrolet Silverado [...]

Porsche LeMans Pit Video: A Thing of Beauty

In this delicately crafted video showcasing Porsche’s long-awaited return to the LeMans circuit, we get a beautifully close and slow-motion enhanced look into the moving parts that make up a crack pit stop team’s work. Who says pit stops can’t be art? To me, they’re infinitely more interesting than… I dunno, say a synchronized swimming [...]

AMG Wants to Sell You Bags with Burnout Marks on Them

Probably one of the more bizarre offerings from car related high end luxuries that I’ve seen. Here’s a novel idea from the marketing department at the AMG’s Driving Performance team, in which public reaction has so far been a hilarious and (almost) unanimous: “NO.” Best reaction so far: “Okay, someone at Mercedes came up with […]

The McLaren P1: Extreme Testing (Ice Episode)

“Holy crap” the first two words uttered while watching this video. McLaren’s known to offer up epically shot video montages of their coveted P1, including its fabled and secretive run with the Nürburgring. Here we have an official look at some of the extreme testing that McLaren’s engineers thought necessary to put the P1 through. The [...]

Mercedes Reveals the New V-Class Minivan

Remember, this won’t quite be for the US market, but here’s something interesting from the press desk of Mercedes-Benz. I’ll be honest, the headline itself had me wincing. As I clicked TopGear’s coverage, I expected to hate the ever-loving hell out of this thing, but truth be told, I quite like it. It’s hard to discuss European […]

What a Lamborghini Veneno Delivery Looks Like

We know the Lamborghini Veneno is one of the (if not the absolute) rarest and most exclusive car in the world. Considering the ultra-limited production cycle of a whopping THREE cars (wrap your mind around this – in the entire course of human history, there’s been 12 humans to have ever walked on the moon), it’s [...]