You can’t be totally prepared for the Gumball 3000. The full-frontal assault of ferocious supercars, exotic locales and block-rocking parties is enough to turn the brains of most mortals into an exhaust-rattled, octane-spiked blob of tapioca pudding.

The ladies of AnastasiaDate are running the legendary Gumball 3000. And in a radiant illustration of what it’s better to be lucky than smart, I’ll be tagging along to document the insanity. Live coverage starts June 4th!

I imagine that an exotic car can be a real velvet prison. You have to gingerly enter driveways that aren’t completely flat, not take it out in the rain and park it miles away from other vehicles to avoid having it dinged by wind-blown doors. Driver Damon Fryer refuses to be an inmate in a […] More »

The raging bull company is grazing in very green pastures these days.  For three years in a row, it’s increased its sales.  In 2013, Lamborghini enjoyed an eight-percent increase in revenue for a total of over $704 million. Its Aventador had a lot to with that.  Just over 1,000 of them found their ways into […] More »

No offense, but Autoblog’s recent visit to the Lamborghini Museum at the company’s headquarters in Sant’Agata Bolognese make me wonder if they’re, “Working hard or hardly working?”  (Can’t you just feel the elbow in the ribs from a middle-management type?) Even though the crew was in Italy for a Lamborghini Huracan press conference, photographing two […] More »

Don’t get me wrong.  I like the new Lamborghini Huracan.  It’s dashing and sexy.  I enjoy reading about it, especially information straight from the source. One fact that stood out from Máté Petrány’s write-up of his time discussing the new V10 baby bull with company brass jumped out at me. That’s saying a lot because […] More »

Audi’s next R8, set to come out in 2015, will have a lot in common with the new, V10-powered Lamborghini Huracan.  Both cars will put 5.2-liters of 10-cylinder power to the road through 7-speed dual-clutch gearboxes and all-wheel-drive.  That should come as no surprise.  After all, the current 4-ringer shares a lot of its DNA […] More »