As fellow car fans, you all probably know the alternative meaning of the phrase, “the running of the bulls.”  Some Lamborghini owners recently conducted just such an event going from Houston to Austin, Texas.  They rested their beasts at Esotico Italiano, a car show at The Oasis restaurant on Lake Travis.  There were other Italian […] More »

UPDATE – Round Three Winner: Ferrari Enzo! Ah yes… March. I’ve never been one to pay much attention to March madness, when it comes to college basketball, but I do like the idea of a good tournament. So instead of blathering on-and-on about basketball on a car site, we’re doing our own little battle Royale throughout […] More »

Outrageously powerful cars are almost always cool, but not all of them are interesting. Christian von Koenigsegg’s newest example of rolling hyperbole is both. This car is so over the top, it doesn’t just make 1,341 horsepower.  It generates one megawatt. Maximum torque from the revised twin-turbo 5.0-liter V8 is 1,011 pound-feet.  And that’s without […] More »

We’re a generation of backseat experts. Professional spectators with unlimited access to all manners of media that increasingly allows us to put ourselves into the roles of the very figures we’d love to emulate. I’ll admit, I’ve probably watched every time attack lap performed by the Stig and thought to myself how easy he makes […] More »

It may have taken McLaren around 20 years since the legendary F1 to create its second road car, the 12C, but it’s making up for lost time.  The new 650S splits the difference between the latter car – which came out only a few years ago – and the new, insanely powerful hybrid P1.  Other […] More »

I’m sure there are car nuts out there whose biggest problem with the new McLaren P1 is that it’s not the legendary F1 from the ’90s.  Jalopnik writer Raphael Orlove is not one of those people. He noticed the two British hypercars have the same greenhouse outline.  A carbon fiber “window” panel in the rear […] More »

One of the problems with hit products is that they leave you wanting more.  Another is that they make you wait… and wait… and wait for it. For instance, when I was a teenager, I loved “Die Hard: With a Vengeance.”  I was pumped when I heard the studio was thinking of making another John […] More »