Author Archives: Yoav Gilad

End of the Road for SLS

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According to people inside Mercedes-Benz, they will be debuting a special edition at the LA Auto Show in just over a week prophetically named  ”Final Edition.” So it seems that the SLS is going away after just four brief years. Sorry to ruin your day. Perhaps even sadder is that the SLS’ powerplant, the magical […]

Caption contest: WEC Corvette Pit Ablaze in Shanghai

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This past weekend, while you evaluated precisely which “fat pants” you’d wear for the upcoming Thanksgiving feast, two Corvette teams were racing in the Shanghai round of World Endurance Challenge. The action was pretty hot. Then this happened, captured by the Team Larbre Corvette photographer. The fires were extinguished and no one was hurt too […]

HRE Targets 3-Series, Americans

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HRE Wheels used their SEMA booth to promote their beautiful forged wheels and try to expand their market. While HRE has been big with BMW enthusiasts for a long time, the cars they brought to SEMA shows that they’re eager to capture the upper end of the domestic market as well. There was a BMW [...]

HREs at SEMA

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Every year, the Las Vegas Convention Center’s South Hall hosts, among other things, many of the wheel and tire displays at SEMA. And it is in these booths that some of the best and much of the worst the automotive world has to offer is shown. We already shared some of the worst (if not […]