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• Cadillac Goes Racing: From V-Series to Pirelli World Challenge & Back Again

  In Motorsports / By Ari Cox / 24 April 2013

  

  There was a time when Cadillac was synonymous with white wall tires, flashy old men and giant road-hogging boats of epic proportion. But over the last decade the brand has executed an enormous transition to high-tech and uber-luxury. In a stalled economy, while other manufacturers played it safe, Cadillac took risks, shook things up and launched an aggressive approach to grabbing market share. That effort is best exemplified by their V-Series line of high-performance vehicles.

  But just making a car with a massive engine (in this case a 556 hp supercharged V8) and a host of high-grade components (like Brembo brakes, Recaro seats, a limited-slip diff) doesn’t provide a lot of street cred unless you prove to be a solid contender on the racetrack as well. And so Cadillac went racing to showcase the capabilities of its luxury techno-beast and demonstrate that it was clearly more than the sum of its parts.

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• The Top 10 Debuts of the 2013 New York Auto Show

  In Featured / By Tom Anderson / 28 March 2013

  

  For a town where most of the residents share cars, and those cars have their own dedicated tunnels with their own power supplies for their electric propulsion systems, New York’s annual international auto show sure has become one of the hottest expos on the calendar. For the 2013 New York Auto Show now underway, there’s a stellar cast of world debuts from both home and abroad on display. But which of those debuts are the ones that will be hard to fuggetabout? Our 10 picks to attain that status can be found – Where else? – after the jump.

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• The Top 10 Debuts of the 2013 Detroit Auto Show

  In Featured / By Tom Anderson / 15 January 2013

  

  The Detroit Auto Show (the proper name, North American International Auto Show, makes our eyes and ears hurt) is traditionally the first major auto show of the calendar year, and it’s reprising that role in 2013. And befitting its status as a kickoff event, it often sets the tone for the rest of the season’s shows both here in the U.S. and abroad.

  If that’s the case again this year, then we as car enthusiasts have a lot to look forward to in 2013. The Detroit Auto Show is the site of some significant concept and production vehicle debuts, many of which combine exceptional performance, style and efficiency into one machine. But which of these will be the most memorable in the months (if not years) ahead? Here are the 10 debuts that we think have real staying power.

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• The Top 10 Modified Tuner Cars of 2012

  In Lists / By Tom Anderson / 31 December 2012

  

  Exactly 12 months ago, we assembled a list of the 10 tuner vehicles from 2011 that really floated our proverbial boat. Privately, we didn’t think that 2012’s crop of tuned and modified cars, trucks and SUVs could top that of 2011; however – and this is a rare New Year’s Eve treat for you, boys and girls – we are happy to admit that we were wrong. This past lap of the sun has seen the automotive aftermarket assemble some of the fastest, most powerful, and most visually striking machines to ever turn wheels.

  Thus, you can imagine how hard it was for us to narrow our selection down to 10. But that’s exactly what we’ve managed to do, and as you’ll see, the list covers a wide range of manufacturers, tuners, and vehicle types. Will 2013’s top tuner cars be even more amazing? We’re thinking yes. From all of us to all of you, have a happy and safe New Year.

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• The Top 20 Car Themed Bedrooms

  In Lists / By Tom Anderson / 20 December 2012

  

  Rare is the child who does not want to personalize his or her bedroom to better reflect his or her interests. And for almost anything you can think of that kids are into, there’s a wide range of things like bed sheets, wallpaper, rugs, furniture and other things with which they can personalize their personal spaces. One of these interests of children (mostly boys, it must be said) is, of course, cars.

  However, some kids don’t outgrow bedrooms decorated in an automotive motif. Some grown up gearheads refuse to expunge their Formula 1 fixation or Audi addiction from the place they rest their heads, and instead embrace it. It is for these people that we have collected the following 20 pictures of car nut bedrooms. Some are for kids and some are for adults, but all are likely to fill your dreams with the sounds of screeching tires and screaming engines. And folks, those are the best kinds of dreams.

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• Geiger Cars Cadillac CTS-V Coupe is a Big Dollar Blue Brute

  In Tuning / By Tom Anderson / 23 October 2012

  

  It’s hard to believe that less than 10 years ago, there was no such thing as a Cadillac CTS-V. But ever since those first LS6-powered, 6-speed-manual-equipped brutes began trickling in to Cadillac dealers in late 2003 as 2004 models, the super sedan world has never been the same. And perhaps more importantly, it removed any and all doubt that GM’s hoity-toitiest brand was consigning the era of whitewall tires, bench seats and cotton candy suspension tuning to the history books.

  These days, the three members of the second generation CTS-V family – the charming sedan, stylish coupe and beautifully incongruous wagon – are out there on the front lines of the luxury performance car wars, keeping their German foes honest. And there’s at least one German tuner – Geiger Cars, to be precise – that’s helping these brash Americans defeat the home team.

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• 2013 Hennessey VR1200 is a Cadillac Heart Attack [w/ Video]

  In Tuning / By Tom Anderson / 7 September 2012

  

  The four-digit horsepower car club is, unsurprisingly, one of the most exclusive in all of auto-dom. Boot eligible racing cars like top fuel dragsters, Turbo Era F1 cars (with their “Offerings to the Gods of Speed” qualifying engines) and multi-engine Bonneville streamliners, leaving only street legal, production derived rides, and the membership roster gets really short. Cull the herd to include just unmodified cars and you can probably tally them on one hand.

  One such pornographically peppy chicken bicuspid is the Hennessey Venom GT. To the uninitiated, it’s just a stretched and widened Lotus Elise with a big ol’ twin-turbocharged GM LS V8 stuffed into it to create a 1,200hp turducken. To the drinks-with-pinky-outstretched connoisseur, however, it’s a remarkable feat of Texas home-cooked ingenuity: Stay out of the boost and take corners like Miss Daisy is riding shotgun, and it’s remarkably placid. Put the spurs to it, though, and you’re suddenly five counties away from where you started. That’s what an engine that mighty and that flexible can do. Such a shame Hennessey hasn’t put it in another car…until now.

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• The Top 20 Coolest Taxis in the World

  In Lists / By Tom Anderson / 24 August 2012

  

  Long before the advent of the internal combustion engine, someone came up with the idea of using a wheeled vehicle to carry people to where they wanted to go in exchange for money or some other form of payment. But if you ask us, it wasn’t until the dawn of the automobile and its first use as wheels-for-hire that the taxi truly came of age. Today, motorized cabs are pretty much a part of the scenery in every major city on earth.

  Unfortunately, the vast majority of taxis are based on plain, unexciting vehicles possessing as much soul as a washing machine filled with soybeans. However, if you want your fare to buy some flair, there are some decidedly enticing options out there. Not convinced? Check out these 20 cool cabs and get back to us.

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• Sub5Zero Fantasy Collection: Cadillac Sixteen

  In Featured / By Tom Anderson / 1 July 2012

  

  When it comes to ultra-luxury cars, the British appear to be the current world leaders. Although they are both presently owned by German automakers, the current offerings of Bentley and Rolls-Royce are nevertheless the products of time-honored English craftsmanship, chock full of painstakingly-assembled swathes of metal, rubber, wood, leather and wool. Sure, Mercedes-Benz’s 21^st century revival of Maybach attempted to take a bite out of BMW and VW’s UK outposts, but considering Stuttgart’s decision earlier this year to (finally) pull the plug on the grandiose gambit, we’re going to go ahead and call it a failure.

  Of course, the Brits didn’t always have the hyper-premium motorcar market to themselves. For most of the prior century leading up to WWII, the Germans, French, Italians, Americans and even the Swiss built cars that were as much works of art as they were machines. Cadillac – despite (or is that because of?) being under the General Motors umbrella – was no different, building huge automobiles, including a variety of V16-powered models. It was these paragons of opulence that Cadillac sought to pay tribute to when creating the concept car you see before you, the 2003 Sixteen concept.

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• Forza Motorsport 4’s April Car Pack Brings a Little of Everything [w/ Video]

  In Video Games / By Tom Anderson / 4 April 2012

  

  On top of the vast tuning and customization options, stout physics engine and comprehensive online play, Forza Motorsport 4 has a fascinating variety of vehicles from which to choose. Whether your proclivities lean toward mammoth SUVs, fire-breathing supercars, snappy hot hatches or out-and-out race cars, the latest installment of the Xbox 360’s flagship racing title has something for you.

  This is not to say, however, that the folks at Turn 10 included as many vehicles as they could have on the disc. To remedy this, the company has been releasing downloadable 10-car add-on packs for the last six months. Each one has added variety and depth to the already eclectic car roster, and the one for this month – the April Alpinestars Pack, which dropped yesterday – is no different.

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