Car Throttle

Grew up playing Hot Wheels diecast toy cars? Well, Lithuanian custom body designers and car remodellers AG Excalibur must have had too many Hot Wheels related wet dreams to have come up with this incredible looking piece of work called the AG Excalibur for us to ponder over for a moment. Let’s take a look at a Hot Wheels diecast toy car like the one pictured above. A nice but somewhat slightly trashed looking Shelby Cobra Daytona due to collisions with other toy cars, walls and jumping off staircases. It looks pretty good doesn’t it? Especially with those really oversized wheels in different sizes for the front and the rear. If this were a real Shelby, those wheels would be easily 26inches up front and 30inches

Hello God? It's me, Tony. Are you jerking me around? Seriously man. I know we don't talk all that often – oh and hey, I really want to thank you for Caitlin – but I really want to know just what the Hell your thinking letting Jaguars being turned into cop cars. Honestly, man. Yes, I know, the shine has somewhat dimmed on Jaguar over the years. What once was a car company that posted "Grace. Pace. Space." and slew all that came before them at places like Le Mans has now been passed around like a doobie at a Grateful Dead concert, ending up in the hands of Tata. Not that there's anything wrong with Tata. They seem like nice guys, and they're doing

What is a Performance Car? According to some it is a car that is fast and handles well. Some would expand this by saying that a performance car must look its part too, a swoopy body like what a Ferrari has or something with 'GTI' badging, large exhaust tips, big fat arches and tires to go with it. They could be right as even a hot hatch like a Volkswagen Golf GTI is considered a performance car with its turbocharged 2.0liter engine, large alloys, sports suspension and some semblance of a bodykit that differs it from the normal Golf. The car is fast and it also handles well due to a sporty suspension setup as well as those large grippy tires. But maybe the answer is

So Volkswagen finally announces pricing for its Amarok 4 door pick up. Bottom line: €26,203, or $35,260 U.S. And it was widely speculated whether VW was going to bring this truck to the U.S. or not. Guess the answer to that is a resounding not. That is a lot of money for a newcomer to the highly competitive pick up market to ask for. A stripped down, getting just the standard gear Amarok is just a grand short of what a Ford F-150 XL Super Cab goes for. And bear in mind that the Amarok comes with a 122 horsepower engine. The Ford F-150 XL Super Cab most certainly does not, and any way you care to measure it, the Ford beats the Amarok in everything

Ottengami la mia lama così posso tagliare il fronte del cane che lo ha insultato!! I mean seriously. Limosines are bad enough as they are, you know, but this? Yes, this is no joke (or if it is, it's a very bad joke). Someone decided that what the world was missing was a Lancia limo. And not just any Lancia but a Lancia Delta. And not just any Lancia Delta, but an HF Integrale EVO. Seriously, how many EVOs are there out on the roads? A dozen or so? And rather than race the thing, you decided to take a torch to it and cut it up and make this. Brilliant. It would seem, according to sources, that there are not one, but two Lancia

Do you have to make electric vehicles look ugly? No, you don't. The Fisker Karma is quite attractive, and that's even a sedan, but this? This, sadly, is the Protoscar Lampo 2. A Swiss EV that has been highly anticipated by some, but I bet this will cool their ardor slightly. Protoscar describe themselves as being "CleanCar Shapers", but I really think they should reevaluate their self-image. No, the Lampo 2 is not outright hideous, like a Pontiac Aztek, but it is awkwardly executed and strangely proportioned. In a lot of ways, it is rather reminiscent of various "safety car" studies that you'd see back in the 1970s. Back then, it seemed to be all the rage (for a while) for car companies to design

"Wow, is this for real," is what I literally said out loud when I saw this. Short answer: Yes. Of course it's French. Citroen made the darn thing back in the 1950s for a Paris tour operator Groupe Cityrama. Groupe Cityrama commissioned the French coachbuilder Currus to build their tour bus on a Citroen U55 truck chassis. Damn! Ahhh, the French. Can you imagine anyone else coming up with a ride like this? Sure, Gerry Anderson, back in his UFO/S.H.A.D.O.W. days, but a real car company? Nope, only in France. And imagine touring around Paris in this thing? But indeed the Cityrama Currus was real. It was built up on a Citroen U55 truck chassis (or so they say). I know nothing about the U55, and

Really? Did people every really drive cars like this in any sort of serious way? I mean, yeah, I get it, this thing is a custom and all that, and a custom by George Barris (The King of The Kustomizes) to boot – and that guy was anything but subtle and restrained, but the last time I saw a car like this, Huggy Bear was driving it. Yeah, I know there's that whole "pimp style" things, but if there was ever a "style" to back away from, that has got to be near the top of the list. Not only does it have a worse sense of esthetic restraint than Louis XIV, but the current power distribution around women is bad enough already without inflicting "pimp

Really Aston Martin? You're really going to go through with this? Remember when the guys that owned the rights to the James Bond films thought that Pierce Brosnan was a good idea? What we have here, the coming in 2010 Aston Martin Cygnet is the automotive equivalent of that. Look, I understand. The world is changing, and you have to keep up. V12 Astons are wonderful cars, but you have to do something green, or at least have some show that you care about the environment, right? But this? This is just a Toyota iQ with a nice interior and some AM styling touches. Is this really what you want to do with your brand? And who's going to buy the Aston Martin Cygnet? Are there really

See, this is why they keep you on an island. It would seem that some Englishmen decided that what the world needed was not just a riding lawn mower capable of going 100 MPH, but they also want its top speed certified by the Guinness Book of World Records people. Sure, it's good to have goals. I've known that there has been lawn mower racing for some time. In a certain, hair-brained way, it has a certain appeal. There's different classes, so that gives you room to fiddle, and it's probably pretty cheap too. But like with any form of racing, some one is bound to ask, "Just how fast can one of these go?" The current answer is 81 mph which was set in 2006 by