Archive for the 'Coupes' Category

One-off SR-71 Mustang sells for $375,000 at EAA AirVenture

Generous giving can be a sign of how the economy is doing, and if the auction of the custom SR-71 Blackbird Mustang at the EAA AirVenture show yesterday is anything to go by, then things are looking up. Built in collaboration with Ford, Roush and Shelby, the one-off pony car was sold for $375,000 […]

Saturday, August 28th, 2010

Ford Mustang Boss 302 is back for 2012

The name Boss 302 resonates with the ponycar faithful, as it was first applied to a Mustang that was engineered to turn and stop as well as it blasted out of the staging blocks. Built in response to the SCCA-bred Camaro Z/28, with help from a few ex-GM folks like Larry Shinoda, it conformed […]

Monday, August 16th, 2010

Mansory’s Bugatti Veyron Linea Vincero d’Oro maxes out the gold card

We know what you’ve been thinking: All the Bugatti Veyron needs is a little more flash. Are we good, or are we good? Anathematic as the thought might be to some, there are others on this planet who are always looking for another way to show off their wealth, instead of hiding it in offshore […]

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010

First Drive: 2011 Scion tC is a bolder swipe at Generation Y

Overstating the importance of the tC to Scion is difficult to do. Since Toyota launched its youth-oriented brand in 2003, the two-door tC has accounted for over 40 percent of Scion’s nearly 800,000 sales. And the tC wasn’t even launched until 2004 — meaning the tC is the standard-bearer for the company. Especially as the […]

Sunday, August 8th, 2010

2011 Mercedes-Benz CL-Class: Details and pics aplenty

This is the Mercedes that even other Benz owners covet. The 2011 Mercedes-Benz CL-Class is an opulent throwback to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby era of luxurious peregrination — that’s travel to you and me.
So successful has this exclusive four-seat coupe been as a standard bearer for the company that its gestation into its second […]

Sunday, July 4th, 2010

EDO Competition converts five-year-old Aston Martin DB9 into DBS

You’d think that someone who can afford to have their Aston Martin DB9 transformed into a DBS could probably afford to simply buy a new DBS. We can’t really speak to the motivations of one Russian DB9 owner, but Edo Competition wasn’t about to argue with a paying customer.
After the five-year old DB9 was brought […]

Sunday, June 20th, 2010

2010 Lamborghini Gallardo LP 570-4 Superleggera stupefies our senses

The explosive burble from the V10’s exhaust coming off the back straight seems powerful enough to vaporize insects in mid-air. The Howitzer-like concussions shock through the firewall and slam into our spines an instant before the combustive dissonance has time to reverberate off the outside wall and into our eardrums. The menacing acoustics force the […]

Saturday, June 19th, 2010