In the Golden State, Italian exotics continue to struggle against classic elements. Last month, an Aventador burned during a test drive, and this weekend, a prospective Ferrari California owner dumped one into Richardson Bay. Air? Earth? You’re up next. Pics after the jump.

To keep the center of gravity low, F1 drivers are basically lying down. Here, F1 driver Nico Rosberg explains why he sometimes strains to see over the wheel of his Mercedes AMG Petronas car. Visibility issues, anyone? And just look how his legs are crammed in there!

First, a 135i is hardly competition for a 997 Turbo. That said, this game of high-speed cat and mouse on the autobahn still makes for great video. What are you more jealous of? The fact that there are no speed limits? Or that people on the right yield to faster drivers?

Ferrari just passed the 8,000,000 followers mark on Facebook. To celebrate, the company posted this video of a 458 drifting and doing donuts. And it could have been brilliant—but it isn’t. So while it might seem silly to critique a video showing one of the world’s finest sports cars being flogged like a winter beater, I’m going to do it anyway.

Porsche’s GT 3 RS sets the bar when it comes to bringing the rawness of a racecar to the road. In fact, Chris Harris even owns one himself. That hasn’t stopped their neighborhood rivals from bringing the heat with the Mercedes’ C63 AMG Black and BMW’s M3 GTS.

While I was going through my DVR last night, I stumbled across an episode of “Sons of Guns” where the guys modify a Porsche Cayenne for a Russian billionaire, with “security concerns.” International Armoring Coroporation had already bullet-proofed it, but the client also wanted it to have some offensive capabilities.

Evo Editorial Director Harry Metcalfe owns a regular Zonda. So maybe that’s what he was able to score an invite to the Pagani factory and talk a South American zillionaire into letting him flog his Zonda 760 RS before he’s even seen it. Personally, I don’t care what Metcalfe did to get this footage. Because he got it. And it rules.