Some say “nothing good happens after 2am.” I don’t know what time it was when an OmniAuto reader took these pictures, but I doubt it was during normal commuting hours. Like a Corleone, if you want to move a body and keep it quiet, you do it late at night. What we have here is one of the most anticipated cars from one of the biggest “families” of Italia; Lamborghini’s successor the retired Murcielago. Make the jump to see all the spy shots.
The Aston Martin DBS. Not only was this car a no-brainer for our Dream Garage, but it is at the very tip top of my “Things to Buy When I marry a 90 year-old Billionaire” list. (That and a bucket of roofies, for myself).
While our garage would probably need to be the size of a Boeing hanger to hold all our dreams, I would want this one parked just inside the door. I’d park in my bedroom if I could, so that every morning it would be the first thing I see. I would be in a better mood each morning, something my friends would greatly appreciate.
I fucking hate traffic. Not exactly a Pulitzer statement but in LA it is just as bad as everyone says. When have you exited the freeway to drive on residential streets with stop signs, knowing you will get to your destination way ahead of the people in gridlock? For me it’s a daily occurrence. The only way to consistently travel on the freeway without cursing so loud is shatters your window is by using the car pool lane. But you need a passenger for that and hiring a day-laborer to ride with me to and from work gets expensive and picking up homeless people is only good for testing your immune system. But a Costa Mesa real estate agent accidentally found the creepiest solution I’ve ever heard of; a corpse.
It should come as no surprise that the next car I voted into our Dream Garage is the Alfa Romeo 8C Competezione. Earlier this year I was lucky enough to work on a shoot featuring a black 8C. When it was unloading from the transport truck I stared it with all the wonder of a 14 year old boy looking at his neighbor’s house, realizing his neighbor is Jordan, and her shower has a bay window. Then I got invited to go for a ride, and I haven’t stopped thinking about that day since.
People like to think of Santa Monica as a “progressive” place. A place filled with “forward thinkers”, people who believe wearing newspapers on your feet will balance your chi and that drinking organic dirt-milk should be a sport. Perhaps it’s that kind of delusion that brought this person to defile their Bentley, by putting a Hyundai badge on the back. After my initial “WTF?” moment I could only come up with 1 theory: Someone stole their Bentley emblem and switched it with the one of their own Elantra, and the owner of this car is such a narcissistic Xanax-junkie they haven’t noticed (ironic since they bought this car to get attention.)
Or maybe they’re being audited and hope this will dupe the tax man? No matter what the reasoning, I want to thank this idiot for giving a great big laugh on Friday morning.
I spotted this Boxster while walking in Los Angeles. My friends made a joke about how much I like cars, thinking I was stopping to take a picture of a car a cool car . Wrong. What I was taking a picture of is a very bad body kit that looks like it’s held on like a refrigerator magnet. Wide fenders are just laying on the origninal fenders, and the spats in the back look like a Dr. Scholl’s insole that you trim to fit-and this owner forgot.
Looking to the front I laughed a little harder. Is that a intentionally recessed filler cap? Or perhaps one of HOmer Simpson’s famous “speed holes?” No, that’s just a great big sign to the world telling it you bolted a second fender over your original fender. If you want a body kit that will get a lot of 12 year olds to turn their heads, but you only have about $200 bucks, this is the mod for you.
Scooters were awesome when I was a kid. They combined a skateboard’s low center of gravity with the steering response of a bicycle.The only problem was pushing yourself got tiring, literally and figuratively. A scooter was fine to play around in the driveway, but choosing one as transportation was a mistake. You would undoubtedly be the kid slowing down 5 kids on bikes.
Then someone built the Razor scooter, and creating the most inefficient means of travel ever. The only time I see kids riding a Razor is in a mall, because even the concrete outside is too rough for it’s rickety frame and tiny wheels. Which is why I’m so happy to introduce you to the DTV Shredder, built by BPG-Werks. It’s more mini-tank than scooter. It’s not just a kid’s expensive toy. It’s also for the military.
When you hear the name Buick, what comes to mind? If you get a senior’s discount you’ll sit back on your hemorrhoid cushion and say, “Ah yes, fine automobiles. All the luxury of a Cadillac without drawing attention from the IRS.” If you’re reading this while living in a house that’s worth 50% of what you bought it for, you look at Buick the way Teddy looked at Matt Damon in Rounders; you owe me some f***in’ money. For me the brand reminds me of my grandma, because she’s the only person I’ve ever known who owned one. Sure, Tiger Woods did, but only because his endorsement deal made him.
Basically, Buick’s have always had a reputation as being a car for old people, but after spending a few days with the 2010 Buick Lacrosse CXS, they might have been on to something.
The Woodward Dream Cruise, now in its 16th year, is the largest single-day car show in the US. Literally millions of people, and tens of thousands of cars gather on Woodward Avenue and cruise up and down the 8 mile stretch of road for hours upon hours. Spectators can pick a spot along Woodward and just watch the whole show cruise on by, or hop in their rides and be a part of it. Of course, The Smoking Tire isn’t the type to sit on the sidelines, so we got ourselves an ass-kicking piece of Detroit iron, the Firebreather, and hit the road.
In addition to the madness that is the Dream Cruise, we learned the story behind the Firebreather, along with the film, Jinn, that it stars in. And, in usual The Smoking Tire fashion, we throw a twist into the mix, when Matt convinces a car fan to get the Firebreather logo as a tattoo. Video after the jump.
Most people I know, including about 99.9% of the females I’ve been in cars with, hate lifted Super-Duty trucks. And this photo shows us exactly why. The general attitude towards these trucks are that they simply take up a ton of space on the road, and for no particular reason. They are annoying to tow with ( and towing is the Super Duty’s specialty), the load height is way too high to be useful, and I rarely, if ever, see one being driven hard off-road. The driver wasn’t even in 7-Eleven, and he just HAD TO take up 2 parking spots to make sure no one parked anywhere near his penile implant on wheels.
To put things in perspective, I drive a bright orange Ford Raptor, also known for being one of the more obnoxious vehicles on the road. My truck is a full 4 inches wider than this F-250, and yet, in this same parking lot, I was able to fit in a single space, no problem.
Bonus douche points for the American Flag nose spoiler. What other country would you be from when parked like that in something that big?
One of the sickest 458 Italias in existence!!
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