Watch the Internet’s favorite hoonigan shredding tires around Los Angeles in a 845hp 4WD Mustang. This is the seventh installment of the rubber-obilterating YouTube series that all began with Gymkhana Practice six years ago this month. And, as you'll see, things have been cranked up a notch since jovially drifting a...
Automotive industry leaders are divided on the feasibility of having self-driving on the roads today. Some think self-driving cars will be perfectly feasible by the 2020s; others feel sure there will always need to be a driver ready to take back the controls in an emergency. Is it a fantasy? Or is the self-driving car...
Trunk-or-Treat? Yep, it’s not a typo. It’s a spooky new Halloween car decoration craze that brings trick-or-treating to parking lots and local streets. Instead of ringing the doorbells of unknown homes, kids go from car to car collecting candy and playing games – all under their parent’s careful watch....
When you put BMW Manufacturing and Clemson University’s International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR), the nation’s only automotive engineering graduate department, on the same project, crossovers are configured into awesome transforming pickups. Introducing Deep Orange 4, a BMW X3 turned X4 look-alike with...
Photo source: legos.com Legos have been used to create impressive model vehicles in the past, but Dave Slater, aka brickdater, has created a remarkable 1969 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. Dave has been infatuated with the ’69 C3 Corvette Stingray for as long as he can remember, and rather than forking over the money...
A brief ceremony brought together Dale Earnhardt Jr. and the grand prize winner of eBay’s Garage for Good sweepstakes, Eric Thor, to the Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevrolet dealership in Tallahassee, Florida. NASCAR’s most popular driver presented the key to a 2015 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 and afterwards took Eric for a test ride....
What are the odds of someone who has never won anything, suddenly wins a car worth 6 figures? That is essentially what happened to Scott Tougas after he listed an item on eBay during our Summer Sell-ebration Week (June 18 – 24, 2014). Now he has a 2011 Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet parked in his driveway as proof that...
“Honey, remember that 1990 Range Rover I was looking at on eBay? Guess who had the winning bid?” That is basically how Shannon Davis broke the the news to his beautiful wife, Angie, after learning he was the highest bidder of a fully restored 1990 Range Rover Great Divide Expedition replica that was built by a special...
In the world of supercars, rarer is better. In certain parts of the world where supercars are commoner than taxis, just knowing it’s unlikely you’ll see a car like yours down at the local shops is more important than Nürburgring lap times. So when a Porsche 918 or McLaren P1 is just a little too common for comfort,...
It shouldn’t be a secret that Dale Earnhardt Jr. is a bona-fide eBay fanatic. We sit down with NASCAR’s most popular driver and have a little chat about his rabid interest with eBay. Stay with us and learn what Dale Jr. likes to buy AND sell on eBay.
BidBet.bid is a new mobile-friendly social game, much like fantasy football for auctions. Built by iPropGames, their pilot has gone live just in time for the bidding frenzy known as #MontereyCarWeek that occurs the second week of August every year in Pebble Beach and Monterey, California. Starting Thursday morning,...
Spanning several months, a 1990 Range Rover was restored and built to spec matching the original Great Divide Expedition vehicles that were used for the now landmark adventure that criss-crossed the monumental Continental Divide several times on a 12-day, 1,200 mile adventure that traveled nearly 1,000 miles on...
In honor of the original 1,200 mile Great Divide Expedition that traveled up and over the Continental Divide, and was mostly driven on unpaved roads and 4×4 trails, Land Rover has recreated one of the special 1990 Range Rovers that was prepped for the Great Divide Expedition and never sold to the public. The historic...
Automotive brands are going mad for Pinterest at the moment. Despite the perceptions, Pinterest is not just pretty wedding cakes and travel photos. Hell no! It is also full of beautiful automotive imagery that would melt any car enthusiasts’ heart. No wonder it is becoming the fastest growing social network in the...
Ron Pratte aggressively collected classic cars and trucks over the past few years. His cars were stored in Chandler, Arizona but never were on public display. In a previous column, we reported that he would be selling ALL his vehicles in Arizona during the January, 2015 auctions. While it is not yet certain which...
The 2015 Subaru WRX STI Launch Edition is a limited production model of which only 1,000 units will be built this year. Based on the completely redesigned WRX STI, the Launch Edition gets the iconic WR Blue Pearl paint and gold-painted 18-inch BBS alloy wheels wrapped in 245/40R18 summer performance tires. It also...
Photo credit: Lucas Gilman In 1989 Range Rover had only officially been in the North American market for a couple of years and it’s reputation hadn’t been established here the way it had been in Australia and Europe. So for the launch of that year’s model, with its upgraded, 3.9-liter V8, Land Rover North America...
Photo credit: Steve Fecht for Chevrolet On February 12th, 2014, the earth opened up and swallowed eight rare Corvettes. Ever since that day (“Vette-steria”?), the automotive world has been hanging on every bit of information we can get about the cars and process of rebuilding. As the world watched in horror as...
The WRX STI draws motorsports technology directly from Subaru expertise in World Rally Championship (WRC) competition and is designed to appeal to the most serious driving enthusiasts. STI stands for Subaru Tecnica International, the high-performance and motorsports subsidiary of Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. Following...
Land Rover has commissioned a special, one-off build of a Range Rover that will have the same specifications as the original eight Great Divide Expedition vehicles used to cross the Continental Divide 25 years ago – a special edition Range Rover that was never sold to the public. This unique 1990 Range Rover Great...
