Customizing Corvettes, the Uncle Sam way!
If the thing moves and has an engine that moves it, the Americans simply can’t resist fiddling around. Custom began in America and continues to thrive there like nowhere else and the Yankees, well simply love their customs, be it cars or coffee makers. The legendary Chevrolet Corvette, the very epitome of the American muscle car can now be hand built by you, it’s owner. In a unique initiative, Chevrolet will let you assemble the LS7 or LS9 high performance engine, if you’re planning to drive home a Corvette Z06 or the ZR1. Read more
From Football to CarBall, the Hyundai way!
Hyundai Car Football
The world cup football fever which was on was on for more than a month now has culminated with the Spaniards as the deserving winners. Hyundai Motors which was a big time ad spender at the 2010 football world cup has gotten into the action in it’s own way, by pitting it’s very own cars against each other. So, here they are, the Hyundai i10, i20 and i30 gunning for the football in a very interesting country versus country format. Watch a bunch of country vs country videos after the jump. Read more
Video: Bugatti Veyron Super Sport in the flesh
Bugatti Veyron SuperSport 16-4
Too bad we still don’t have high quality videos of the Bugatti Veyron SuperSport in action. Till then, you’d have to content with this walk around video which Bugatti has just released. Coming to the video, the Veyron SuperSport looks menacingly fast, even while standing very still. Watch the high quality Veyron video just after the jump. Read more
Agent Lynch strips for the 2011 Honda CR-Z, literally!
Agent Lynch in the 2011 Honda CR-Z Striptease Campaign
Honda being Japanese is known to play safe most times and go with it’s traditional approach of warmth and fizz to make folks look up and take note. But that is Honda in Japan. The French, on the other hand are a liberated bunch who take their art very seriously. Form be damned, art is art for the French.
So, Honda France shed all inhibitions and got Agent Lynch to strip for the 2011 Honda CR-Z, yeah, literally. That’s some pretty gutsy stuff from Honda. Coming back to the striptease, if you’re a prude, go get a life. For the rest of us, here’s the tastefully done, very artsy video, in all it’s naked glory. Read more
Italian Wheel Wars: Lamborghini LP570-4 Superleggera vs Aprilia RSV-4 SBK
Lamborghini LP570 4 Superleggera vs Aprilia RSV4 SBK
The Italians love both their supercars and superbikes alike. But when they’re asked to choose between two and four wheels, here’s how they like to settle things and we love what we see. Don’t miss the HD Video of the Lambo going head to head with the Aprilia coming straight at you after the jump. Read more
M Power: 2011 BMW 1 Series M Coupe Teaser
2011 BMW 1 Series M Coupe
BMW has quietly released a teaser video of the 1 Series M Coupe, the pocket rocket M Series car that every enthusiast worth his donuts would love to own as a daily drive. The BMW 1 Series M Coupe which will see a launch sometime in mid 2011 features 335 bhp from the twin turbo inline six. Nope, that’s not the same motor that comes in the F10 BMW 5 Series 535i that was launched recently in India. Read more
American Muscle at it’s very zenith: Dyno tuned 1,000+ Bhp Hennessey Chevrolet Camaro
Hennessey Chevrolet Camaro HPE1000
Nobody does muscle cars like the Americans do, not even the Germans. See, the point of a powerful car is simply that it should scare you and make the hair on the nape of your neck bristle, not with anger but fear, fear of the immense power that the monster under you has and fear of what can happen if you floor the throttle too early while you exit that long sweeper. Read more
The Fiat 500 becomes the first Fiat to get the brand new Fiat MultiAir engine
2011 Fiat 500 MultiAir
Fiat SPA has just pulled the wraps off the revolutionary Multi Air twin cylinder engine that has been the point of great talk over the past few months. The first Multi Air engines has just debuted on the Fiat 500 Supermini, customer deliveries of which are set to begin in September this year. The car isn’t anything new, so let’s talk about the engine that is making all the waves. Read more
Made In India: World’s smallest Electric Pocket Bike
Pocket bikes are massive in many parts of the world and in India too, racing pocket bikes for fun at parking lots and go kart tracks is getting bigger by the day. We got a heartwarming email from one of our readers, Santosh from Mysore, who wanted us to see one of his latest miniature creations.
This crafty chap has put together the world’s smallest Electric Pocket Bike, all by himself. While we see people designing some brilliant software the world runs on, we’re way behind the scene when it comes to actually building innovative things like these. We’re proud of you Santosh.
Top gear spoof – A Hyundai production!
Top gear lovers are obviously rejoicing that their favourite trio and the masked Stig will be making a comeback soon. But how would you like to see them re-incarnated as animals? Sounds Ridiculous eh? Many a time we have seen Hyundai cars being brushed off as pacific rim rubbish on the program. Well, Hyundai Motor Company in the U.S has spoofed Top Gear and is using it as an advert for their newly launched ix35/Tuscon SUV.
In the ad, Clarkson is portrayed as a Bison like creature, Hammond as a Hamster obviously and James May or Captain Slow as a Turtle! In another ad, The Stig is The Stag and the program is Top Deer. Even though I am a huge Top Gear Fan myself, I must say these ads are quite amusing. Schoolboy Mad ads amusing, maybe but not too bad at all. Â Why dont you guys watch them and decide for yourself. The real question is, how will Top Gear respond to this jibe?
Isle of Man TT ’10 Highlights Video
Here’s why the Isle of Man Tourist Trophy is rated so very high. An absolute must watch.
Video Courtesy: Motoroids Mag via Ferni
Video: Mitsubishi EVO X at Kari Motor speedway Coimbatore
There have been a bunch of speculations and spy pics floating in the auto blogosphere currently of this legendary car, the Mitsubishi Lancer Evo-X.
To end all of this, Mitsubishi gave one of its red beasts to the folks at Overdrive to play around with it around the Coimbatore track. And here is a preview of what promises to be a cracker of an episode this weekend.
Watch the video after the jump.
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25 Years of Brilliant Performance: The BMW M3
E92 BMW M3
Talk performance and talk about a car that can ferry you to both board meetings and the local race track with equal grace, poise, elan and more importantly brute power, the BMW M3 immediately rings a bell, the loudest one as yet. 25 years have elapsed and the BMW M3 has only gone from strength to strength with the latest 2010 version going even faster with a 4.0-liter, V8, 414-horsepower engine. Now that’s power and more importantly power that you can revel in every single day without feeling guilty about. To commemorate the 25 glorious years that the BMW M3 has been in production, giving as BMW themselves call it, the Joy of BMW, we have gathered three BMW videos that shows the M3 in action, right from the very first E30 M3 to the latest 2010 M3. We wouldn’t miss it for the moon. Read more
Exclusive: Nissan Micra TV Commercials with Ranbir Kapoor
Ranbir Kapoor Micra commercial
Hours after announcing Ranbir Kapoor as their brand ambassador, Nissan India has released two new commercials of their hot hatch Micra ahead of its television premier. Nissan is heavily marketing its product and leaving no stone unturned to make it a big success in the country especially after bitter experience with their Logan model.
The two commercials highlights car’s unique to its segment features. Jump over to see them yourself.
Motorcycle God Valentino Rossi out for 4 months; We weep, and pray for his recovery!
Courtesy: Visordown
The god of MotoGP, Valentino Rossi, had a earthling moment at Saturday practice before race day at Mugello, and this moment turned out to pretty bad for MotoGP and the world as a whole. Reason: Rossi had a terrible crash on his Yamaha M1, on a downhill chicane at the Mugello MotoGP track and this time, the crash was serious enough to break his leg. Read more
