This is a pretty good week for car shoppers on eBay. First there was the original movie Batmobile, and now there’s the Nissan Xterra that Dwight Schrute drove in The Office for sale on eBay!
This Nissan Xterra was actually owned by one of the hairstylists working on the set of The Office. The car was [...]
Believe it or not, this is one of five original Batmobile vehicles used in the Tim Burton Batman films. This particular vehicle is vehicle #5 of 5 and its current owner has put it up on eBay for a starting bid of $500,000. [via]
According to the eBay page, the vehicle is in good working order [...]
The making of Max the Love Bug.
Volkswagen is launching a brilliant ad campaign featuring a restored sleek-black 1964 Beetle named Max.
The Beetle, or Max the Love Bug, is seen in the TV commercials interviewing supermodel Heidi Klum, Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy, Napster founder Shawn Fanning and David Hasselhoff of Baywatch fame. The voice of [...]
This ad for the BMW M3 was created by Austin-based GSD&M Idea City.
It shows in glorious 10,000 fps what happens on the inside of a BMW M3’s V8 engine. The entire video was shot using specially made cameras placed inside 3 modified BMW engines. There were no special effects used in the making of this [...]
On April 4, 2008 during a qualifying race at the Texas Motor Speedway, Michael McDowell crashed nearly head-on into the wall at about 165 miles per hour. The crash resulted in his car flipping over 8 times before coming to a stop. McDowell amazingly walked away from the crash without injury.
The car was severely damaged [...]
APRIL FOOLS.
Brand New made this April Fools joke pretty elaborate.
Also…if you didn’t already figure it out, “Gmail eliminates Spam folder” and “Wall-E postponed until December 2008” were April Fools jokes I made up.
Back in August 2007, Ken Block, the co-founder of DC Shoes took his crew of snowboarders and his Subaru rally car out on the snowy slopes of Snow Park NZ in New Zealand. There, he basically rode the Subaru like it was a snowboard, going off ramps, catching air, and whipping up heaps of snow [...]
You can probably already guess why I would post this video. [via]
If everything lines up correctly, the Ford Transit Connect van above could very well replace the Ford Crown Victoria taxicabs that travel on New York City streets. The Ford Transit Connect van was originally introduced in Europe but in a year or so (sometime in 2009), it’ll begin to filter onto the streets of major [...]
As some of you may know, I went to the Australian Grand Prix on Sunday. It was my first time ever being at a Grand Prix and I was pretty excited to get the chance to experience first-hand what I’ve always seen on TV.
First, let me just say that the Grand Prix is LOUD. VERY [...]