No matter how much lush green grass and pretty flowers you put over them, it’s hard to completely hide your roots. Maybe you’ve moved to a big city in the north, but can’t twist your tongue out of a southern drawl. Or perhaps you still occasionally satisfy a childhood love of fried pies and macaroni […] More »
By: Derek Shiekhi | February 14, 2014
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 »
By: Derek Shiekhi | February 12, 2014
Usually, a score of one to one is boring. Nobody’s winning. In Swedish, when spoken by Koenigsegg Automotive AB, it translates to “one horsepower per one kilogram of weight.” And not just dry weight, either. Christian von Koenigsegg, the founder of the eponymous firm, said his upcoming gut punch to competitors in the hypercar realm […] More »
By: Derek Shiekhi | February 10, 2014
/DRIVE’s Mike Musto has it rough. Recently, his grueling job made him go out to the Chuckwalla Valley Raceway in sunny Southern California to zip around in the 2014 Ford Fiesta ST. Poor guy. A Fiesta? Aren’t those the cars that pizza delivery guys used to drive in the ’90s? Perhaps, but they’ve come a […] More »
By: Derek Shiekhi | February 7, 2014
I’ve always thought of the jaguar as a regal cat of the wild. These days, the English car company of the same name is bringing out the feral, aggressive side of the creature. Not only is the automaker breeding beasts with 550 horsepower, such as the F-TYPE R Coupe and the XKR-S, it’s gnashing its […] More »
By: Derek Shiekhi | February 5, 2014
If you ever get the chance to wring out the 1,140-horsepower Koenigsegg Agera R, be sure you take some downers before you strap in. The driver in the video below must have been on some horse tranqs in order to drive like that and not need new underwear afterward. superspeedersRob seems to be a Bugatti […] More »
By: Derek Shiekhi | February 4, 2014
Jaguar’s first Super Bowl commercial morphs the old saying “Why do bad things happen to good people?” into “Why do awesome things happen to evil people?” Sir Ben Kingsley, Tom Hiddleston and Mark Strong have done terrible things as film villains. Yet, they get to have all the fun. Kingsley, also known as Don Logan… […] More »
By: Derek Shiekhi | January 30, 2014
