Earlier today, McLaren head honcho Ron Dennis stood in front of a podium and talked about how the new MP4-12C will set a new benchmark on the way supercars are viewed by the public. Though we’ve heard that line quite a few times in the past, we’re not discounting Dennis proclamation because, well, it’s a McLaren, and the last time they unveiled a new supercar back in 1993 - the F1 - a lot of us thought that it was the future of supercars, which, in some ways it ended up becoming.
So fast forward to earlier today and Dennis is flanked by his two stud F1 drivers, Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button for the official unveiling of the production-ready MP4-12C.
Okay PC gamers, get ready to race. EA Video Games has announced that they will be launching Need for Speed World exclusively for your PC this summer. NFS World is a massive multiplayer online racing game that boasts a huge selection of authentic licensed vehicles with thousands of parts that will allow the gamer to customize their vehicle in any way shape or form. After customization of their vehicle is complete players will get to race over 150 miles of the world’s open roads in pursuit of the winner’s circle. Play in some of the classic modes from Need for Speed Carbon and Need for Speed Most Wanted or try out the new line of exciting races.
Although the trailer following the jump offers excellent graphics, we must admit that we do not feel they are as good as the videos provided for Need for Speed Shift or their Exotic Racing Series pack. Let’s hope as EA reveals more details about the game that we will be proved wrong.
Let us know what you think, follow the jump to watch the Need for Speed World trailer and to get more details on the game.
Lloyd Banks and the rest of the G-Unit certainly know how to ride in style and just like any other rap or hip-hop artist in the world today, subtlety isn’t exactly one of their strong suits. These guys are brash and boisterous and Banks’ latest music video shows us exactly what types of four-wheeled vehicles these fellas roll in: “Beamer, Benz, or Bentley”.
Ever the showmen that these guys are, they even brought their prized rides and showed ‘em off in the music video. We didn’t catch most of what they said because they rapped too fast for our ears to catch up, but if we’re not mistaken, we think that they probably mentioned ‘Beamer, Benz, or Bentley’ about thirty to forty times.
And if the Beamers, Benzes and Bentleys aren’t enough to show all of us the perks of being a celebrity, Banks and the other members of G-Unit even brought some lady friends along. Take your pick, ladies. What’ll it be?
In lieu of St. Patrick’s Day, arguably the best holiday apart from Christmas and Thanksgiving, we’re showing you a video of a car accident that occurred last year during a St. Patty’s Day parade in Louisville, Kentucky.
Why are we showing this, you ask?
Well, for starters, it’s to remind you that despite the overflowing booze that is expected of this day, it doesn’t give you the excuse to drink and drive. Secondly, the video is one of those that fall on a gray area. You want to laugh at the poor schmuck that lost control of his ride during the parade yet you know that the resulting accident was serious enough that one bystander ended up on the ER of a local hospital.
Oh and by the way, we’re not really spoiling the whole video by saying that the cars on the parade aren’t really real-life cars, are we?
Enjoy St. Patrick’s Day peeps! And remember, drink responsibly!
Remember that teaser video we had of Tanner Foust performing a drift along the famed strip of Mulholland Drive?
Well, here’s the whole video for you to enjoy.
The whole video was masterfully shot and the edits and cuts to the car’s interior as well as the slow-motion shots of Foust’s Rockstar Scion tC drift car is just plain mind-blowing. Foust manoeuvres his drift car with so much ease you’d actually think he was sipping on some Rockstar inside the car. But in all seriousness, there’s nothing like seeing someone do drift after drift after drift in a pretty intimidating road like Mulholland Drive, especially at that stretch Los Angelinos have come to call ‘The Snake’.
There needs to be some serious driving and drifting skills involved if anybody can even attempt to replicate what Tanner Foust did, which, if you still haven’t seen yet, you should watch right about now.
Performance Power Racing entered the Guinness World Book with a 1400 hp Ford GT. Their car has just become the world’s fastest car in the standing mile with a speed of 252.97 mph.
Let’s face it, even if we could afford a 458 – we can’t – we’re going to need to make a pretty good excuse to the missus for spending six figures on one car. So to spare us the plate-throwing and the fist-punching, we’ve settled for living our dreams of sitting behind the wheel of the new Ferrari super car vicariously to people who actually own one.
Like this lucky dude. According to the chap who posted this video on YouTube, his friend owns a 458 Italia and a Porsche Carrera GT, which you’ll both see in the video doing some leisurely track times on a race circuit. With apologies to the Carrera GT, a car we love, by the way, we can’t help but focus our attention on the 458 for fairly obvious reasons.
And if you’ll excuse us, we need to get some tissues to wipe the drool off the keyboard. In the meantime, go check it out!
This video is too unbelievable to put into words. Really. We could just tell you to go ahead and watch it so you can see for yourselves, but we’re going to try our best to come up with the right words to describe it.
First there’s a truck driving along a highway. Sounds normal enough, right? Unfortunately, that’s where the ‘normal-ness’ of this video ends.
See, while the driver was driving along on his way to God-knows-where, he is completely oblivious – we’re going to repeat that: COMPLETELY OBLIVIOUS – to the fact that there’s a Renault Clio that’s stuck on his bumper!
From the looks of how the brake lights of Clio keep flashing, it looks like there’s actually someone inside the car yet the driver doesn’t even notice it.
There aren’t a lot of things in this world that’s more exciting for a car enthusiast than getting a police escort because it means that you can probably break whatever speeding limit it is in that area if you’re following a police escort. So if those guys want to push the pedal to the metal and run at speeds in excess of 100 mph, you wouldn’t want to get left behind now, would you?
In this video, we have Team Polizei, which is led by rally race car driver Alex Roy, being given a police escort during the 2005 Gumball 3000. While the police escort was rolling at break neck speeds, dodging other cars and a few bewildered pedestrians along the way, Team Polizei’s BMW M5 had absolutely no trouble keeping up.
If you could run at this speed and even have a police escort lead you the whole way, then you’d be ridiculously thrilled too.
Porsche’s next-generation 911 was recently caught doing some cold weather testing somewhere over there in Sweden and just like every other Porsche fanatic on this side of the world; we jumped at the opportunity to see the car in action, albeit just in testing form.
From the looks of things, this next-generation 911 looks to be bigger than most 911s we’ve seen in recent memory, which has us thinking how the car’s performance could offset the bulkiness of this new 911. The car’s rear end also looks to be a little more built in although that could just be the white camouflage wrapping – or is that actually snow? - playing tricks on us.
Either way, we won’t make you wait any longer so dive in on the video. It’s about six minutes long so that should give you plenty of time to drool over the next-generation 911.
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