Whenever I travel abroad, I am amazed at how many products are copied, badly, and sold on the streets. Fake Rolexes are the common example, but Louis Vitton bags, leather wallets, Ferrari jackets and even women (watch for adam’s apples) are poorly replicated around the world and sold to tourists looking to get luxury at a steal. I have no problem if someone wants to sell you a fake Burberry scarf for $10, because I think the fact an authentic ugly plaid one costs $350 is retarded. It’s not an attractive design, it’s just unique and lets the world know you have a nice bank account.
I’m constantly amazed by the stupidity of people. You all know this, because when I find a stupid person, I write about it or show pictures using this site. I don’t know what would compel someone to do this upon seeing a car filled with video cameras, but you’ve been warned: These people are stupid.
The Smoking Tire relives our old high school days by driving around LA, picking up our buddies, and going Go-Karting at Adams Motorsports Park. Is the Civic fun enough to satisfy Matt’s taste for sporting cars, while practical enough to haul around his friends and gear?
This is a Daewoo Leganza, but the taillights and badging would have you believe otherwise. This is where this person went horribly, terribly, wrong. Unless, of course, this really is the elusive E32 AMG prototype… You be the judge….
This is a 1967 Cadillac Eldorado coupe, and a very nice one at that. The paint, engine bay, and interior are all spotlessly clean. How many miles would you guess are on this car? 40k original? 80k? How about 100k original miles? Nope, not even close. Try 476,000 miles. For a car that looks this good, that’s simply a staggering figure. But the car itself isn’t really what’s impressive. Take a look at the other photo in the gallery, the one that shows every bit of maintenance, every gallon of fluid, and every day spent in a garage vs. on the road. I have never in my life seen something as intense as this poster. Damn, this guy loves his car.
I go to Cars and Coffee in Irvine, CA, pretty much every Saturday morning, and come home to share photos with you all…. This Saturday was particularly awesome, with some of the best machinery I’ve ever seen in one parking lot. There was a $10 million Ferrari 250GTO, a Porsche 550 Spyder, Porsche Carrera6, Ferrari F50, an Iso Grifo, Toyota 2000GT, and an Intermeccanica Indra, one of only two examples of the “hybrid” Italian/American car ever brought to the US. Additionally, check out the bad-ass chopped Lincoln with the tiniest back window ever, and the white-on-cocaine-white Nissan GTR. The 80’s would be proud of you.
Who doesn’t like a badass-looking lifted truck? Sure, most of the ones we see are driven by tattooed jackasses that stand at 5 feet 3 inches and like to season their pizza with HGH, but the trucks still turn heads. That 5 year-old part of our brains that endlessly played with Tonka trucks and BIGFOOT models in the mud never completely goes away. So when I saw this truck, less than 50 feet from the swanky Ivy Restaurant of Bevely Hills, I had to cross the street to check it out. At first it looked like a normal 4-door short bed with a good lift kit; black truck, black wheels, yada yada. But something peaking over the roof caught my eye. What is that black, angle-cut cylinder poking up from the bed? Is it a tow hitch? The tip for Kim Kardashian’s lipo machine? No. It is the exhaust tip to end all exhaust tips. Fart cans of the world, this is your god. If you own a Nissan Altima, with an “R” badge and 6″ coffee can muffler, you are no longer leader of the idiots. I have seen plenty of trucks with the semi-style “smokestacks”, and while stupid, at least there was a connection. Semi-TRUCK, pickup-TRUCK. A thin connection, yes, but a connection nonetheless.
First, respect where it’s due: Tuner G-Power did build the world’s fastest sedan when they twin-supercharged the BMW M5, producing 750 horsepower and a top speed of 228 mph.
Silly fast M5’s notwithstanding, this G-Power tuned X5, called the “Typhoon,” features a supercharged 4.8L V8 producing 625 horsepower. It does 0-60 in 4.5 seconds and tops out at 186 mph. Off-road, snow, even rain capability? Not so much. And the price for the maddest X5 you can buy? $415,000. That’s not a typo. You could buy a Ferrari 430 Scuderia AND a Porsche Cayenne Turbo for that kind of money. Even worse? For all that wide-body aero madness, the Typhoon is still just a tick faster than the Cayenne Turbo at a quarter of the price. G-power gets today’s award for building the single stupidest car in the world.
