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TST Exclusive! Bijan Spotted Working on Special-Edition Rolls Royce

Tuesday, December 7th, 2010

In November Rolls Royce announced a partnership with Beverly Hills-based designer Bijan Pakzad. Bijan already know to thousands of tourists to Beverly Hills for his bright yellow cars (Rolls Royce Phantom Drophead, or Bentley or most recently added, Bugatti Veyron yellow and black with a faint airbrushed “mouth of trust” on the hood. Till now we have not seen pictures of the much talking about series of cars by Bijan (till now photos floating around have been of Bijan’s personal car). The Smoking Tire has exclusive picture of what the final drophead will look like and exclusive photo of Bijan himself rolling out the fabric on the hood of the Rolls Royce that will be the design of the hood of the final car. (more…)

2010 Ford SVT Raptor: Built for Baja, Tested on Bullrun

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

hdThe Smoking Tire visits Ford’s Dearborn factory to pick up the hottest new truck from the Blue Oval: The Ford SVT Raptor. Host Matt Farah drives the SVT Raptor from Detroit to New York City for the…