Nobody said that you can’t own your own Audi R8, even if it’s the two-dimensional, garden variety type.
That’s exactly what Audi Canada is promoting. In a unique ploy to get you to make your neighbors believe you have the Audi supercar in your garage, Audi Canada is selling a garage door wrap that is designed with an R8 parked inside.
Now, don’t get too excited. The R8 is nothing more than an enhanced photo and dreams of having the real one will cost you millions more. But if you’re the type who has status-seeking neighbors, then this should make them green with envy – at least until they find out that its nothing more than a wrap.
At first we thought that this was created by a novelty store that decided to use the R8 as some sort of prank. But after finding out that Audi Canada was behind this, we had to give them props for a really swell marketing ploy.
In the event that you fancy yourself decorating your garage with an R8, you can get this wrap for $469 Canadian.
For all you Batman-loving car nuts out there, we’re now telling you to turn away and not even bother to look at this.
But if you can’t resist, then we won’t blame you either.
This car is not the Batmobile. No. No. No.
What it is is a 2001 Chevrolet Camaro that has been face-lifted to make it look – at the very least – like the Dark Knight’s ride. While his expectations of what a Batmobile looks like differs greatly from the entire human population, we can’t help but appreciate the effort.
That is, until, we scoured the car and found a few minor mishaps said owner has done with his re-styling. First of all, he needs to work on his spelling as evidenced by the tag line ‘King of Gothem City’ emblazoned on right rear side of the car. Second of all, we understand the whole concept of posting stickers on the rear window, provided it doesn’t impede the driver’s vision when he checks out his rear-view mirror, but this guy decided that small stickers have no place in his ‘Batmobile’ so he went with a sticker that almost covers the entire rear window.
About a month ago, we wrote about a group of culinary chefs in Singapore who made an actual-sized F1 car from bread. While the feat in itself was impressive – the car was pretty delicious to look at too – we found at that building an F1 car from the most obscure of objects is a talent that those chefs share with a number of people.
The latest to take a stab in creating a Formula One replica car is Puma, which you may know, is the official clothing sponsor of Ferrari. For its part, Puma didn’t use anything edible to build the car; they used something that they had in mass abundance: Ferrari merchandise.
Take a look at the video and see how a couple of t-shirts, caps, and shoes ended up becoming a Ferrari F60.
The creative team at Maverick Business Adventures are organizing their latest high end out for Fortune 500 faces to not only interact in a high octane environment, but also give back to those in need. This September 30th, twenty different million dollar CEOs will have their hair dyed pink before setting across California’s magnificent Pacific Coast Highway in 400 HP super cars. Led by hair care expert John Paul Mitchell, the participants in the "Totaly Rad 80’s Maverick Road Rally" will depart from an undisclosed location in L.A. before heading north through San Francisco and eventually ending up in Nappa Valley.
These types of events are intended for up and coming entrepreneurs to socialize in a relaxed environment where they can network and pick up the good habits of their fellow companions. The reason that the captains of industry participating in the "Totaly Rad 80’s Maverick Road Rally" will be wearing an alternatively colored hairpiece is to promote cancer awareness month. The founder of Maverick Business Adventures, Yanik Silver is eager to get the road rally underway, saying that he "can’t wait to watch teenagers dying the hair of millionaire CEOs pink." However, as funny as it seems for a member of the Frtune 500 list to be sporting a very punk like pink hairdo, the “color washes out after two or three washes - apparently.”
When you reach the age of 50, it’s normal to start thinking about things that you still want to accomplish before you become too old to do them. For 52 year old, Roy Locock, that involves circumnavigating the world in a car.
Now if you think that this is more than just a pipe dream from an ambitious man, guess again.
Locock is dead serious about going around the world and he’s doing it behind the wheel of the unlikeliest of vehicles, a 1977 MG Midget. Locock purchased the car three years ago and began touring parts of Italy and Spain. Not content with the miles he covered in his first go-round, Locock decided to take his trusty Midget – which, by the way, goes by the name of Bridget – to see the world. Literally.
Armed with nothing more than five-days of ration, two 10-liter gas cans, and his trusty old Bridget, Locock set out for his journey a year ago, starting from Oxford, England and moving all the way to Chennai, India. Not long after that, Locock took a boat down to Australia, where he proceeded to drive around the entire continent before hopping on another boat, this time to Argentina, where he has gone all the way up to Canada.
The German automaker Audi is making a move before the Frankfurt Motor Show with a series of viral videos and the website Electricity Untamed. The site is not much more than a counter that will zero out on September 15th and a series of facts that come in and out of view. Informing you that lightning is 5 times hotter than the sun and that 1 bolt creates 1 billion volts of electricity and can cook 30000 microwave dinners. However the most tantalizing of those factoids is that electricity travels at over 670 Million MPH, especially because the automaker has denied that the electrified R8 would make it to the show.
The only thing that we have to go on, aside from the electricity theme, is that the new car should look something like an R8 or even a TT depending on how you squint at the rendering below. If Audi is planning on brining a battery powered sports car to Frankfurt, they may have to share the stage at their 100th Anniversary at their home show with that pesky electric SLS super car from AMG. We are sure that if the German automaker did decide to prepare something special for their home show shouldn’t disappoint, as the last of those quotes stated, a shock you can feel delivers 250 volts of electricity, so if the jolt that sent the kid in the video clear across his living room, the electric Audi should be packing quite a punch as well.
The upcoming Ferrari 458 Italia not only easy on the eyes, but it is also a delight to the ears. Being fully aware of this, the Italian automaker has now made it easier to bring both the sights and sounds of the F-430 replacement with you on your iPhone. Just by visiting the new mid engine supercar’s mini site you can gain access to all sorts of multimedia goodies for your intelligent mobile device. Aside from the high resolution backgrounds and screen savers, Ferrari is also offering five different sound files that will make for some very memorable ringtones.
The first audio file is entitled overtaking and it delivers the sound’s of the new 458’s 4.5 Liter V8 screaming all the way to redline along with the sounds of lesser vehicles on the circuit. The on the track file offers perhaps the best mix of what the future Italia is capable of, mixing in a healthy amount of engine noise, tire squeal and speed. The other ring tones being offered are entitled: acceleration, off the mark and on board. So if you can’t wait until Frankfurt to see the car undisguised and hear the all new V8 officially fired up for the first time then now you have something to hold you over, and the best part is that it’s free.
Click the link below to visit the Ferrari 458 Italia mini site.
The identity of Top Gear’s masked racing driver, the Stig, is quite possibly one of the biggest mysteries facing automotive television fans and at the same time is one of the things that keeps viewers coming back week after week to watch the BBC’s best program. It would appear that the Stig’s popularity has led him to set out on his own and star as the face of a new "Where’s Waldo?" type magazine in which the white racing suit wearing top secret test driver is hidden amongst hoards of other individuals and all sorts of wacky automobile paraphernalia in Top Gear world. This is quite a paradox indeed, the Stig is mostly known for stepping into a car and going like hell, so the idea of having to catch the fastest man on Top Gear standing still is just absurd.
While the mystery of the original Stig is a closed case, being unmasked as Ben Collins, a professional racer who specialized in everything from rally car racing to stock car racing, only to have the BBC killed off the original man in black and replace him by the racer in white overalls that we know today. This lastest creation from illustrator Rod Hunt and BBC Books, “Top Gear, Where’s Stig?” has just been released and should soon be available wherever books are sold.
How come it is that you see so many exotic super cars going up in flames? One would think that with the highly inflated price tag and ridiculous maintenance costs that you would at least be buying some sense of peace of mind reliability. However unfortunately this isn’t the case and for each of these unlucky exotic car owners, their pleasant Sunday drives all ended with an eerily similar smell, charred super car.
All of these driver’s stories sound about the same, it doesn’t matter whether they were behind the wheel of a Diablo, Gallardo or even a Chevrolet. They were all driving along peacefully when out of no where their olfactory nerves begin to sense an odd smell emanating from their engine bays, and only seconds later their big boy toy were engulfed in flames.
Previously we have speculated that there could be a foul hand afoot, and that these high priced rides are being sacrificed in order to free up some liquid from a very overpriced asset in a tight economy. However if this is the case, those owners ought to be persecuted because they are giving the exotic car builders a bad name.
We have to admit, we’ve never seen anything quite like this before.
The photo’s you’re seeing is that of a replica Formula one car. That much is sure. But closer inspection, which in this case, we highly recommend, will show that the car was created out of...bread.
Yes, bread. You know; those tasty loaves that have become staples of our everyday diet. In an attempt to create the largest race car made from bread, a group of individuals, led by the Culinary Executive Chef from the Royal Plaza on Scotts in Singapore, decided to create something that has never been done before in the history of Formula One racing.
According to our source, Klik.tv, the creators of Formula One bread race car used more than one thousand loaves of bread of about 22 different types. In addition to that, the team also had to use 33 pounds worth of yeast, about 14 liters of water, and 4 pounds of salt, just to turn the car into a ‘bread-winner’.
Now we know the Singapore Grand Prix is set to happen in a month’s time and it probably isn’t a coincidence that these folks decided to turn a month’s worth of bread into a replica of a Formula One race car just in time for the race. The only problem we have with that is whether or not the race car would still be ‘fresh’ by then.
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