Alpine has announced the Swiss Army knife of in-car information and entertainment—the IVA-W505 Mobile Multimedia Station. Though its moniker sounds more like a piece of military equipment than an entertainment center, the MMS can handle DVDs, CDS, MP3s, AACs, WMAs, DivX audio and video, and just about any other acronym civilian life can throw at [...]

The JDM brake and suspension gurus at Endless are bringing their new monoblock calipers to the USA for select German and Japanese sports cars. The six piston behemoths weigh in at a featherweight 7.4 lbs, providing serious stopping power while keeping down all important unsprung weight. The Mono-6 will be mated to 370 mm (14.5″) [...]

Y’all know what we think of the R8 around here. And if you don’t — read here. Aside from being “the peoples’ supercar” as boss man Levy has termed it, you can now order your R8 filament free. That’s right, Audi is giving owners the option of 54-LED headlamps to go along with the brand’s [...]

Apparently Lewis Hamilton jumped on the Mclaren jet fresh from his win at Monaco this weekend and is here hanging out in Los Angeles–maybe he made new friends with some of the Cannes Film Festival celbutantes? Since no-one walks in LA, what’s an F1 phenom like Lewis to do. Cue Claus Ettensberger of high end [...]

While on the Ford Mustang GT500KR (review coming shortly) launch at Miller Motorsports Park just outside of Salt Lake City, we were fed lunch in the middle of track founder/owner, Larry Miller’s personal Shelby collection. Some amazing and historic cars were on show including the first Shelby Cobra, a Daytona Coupe worth supposedly a cool [...]

If you’re looking to make your ‘08 STi stick harder than its factory duct-tape-on-arm-hair performance, KW has the solution for you. The new Variant 3 Coilovers offer adjustable rebound and compression to help dial in the suspension for whatever you plan to tackle. KW’s coils also allow you to drop the STi up to 45mm [...]

TAG Heuer, renowned for le crème time pieces and as a sponsor for F1 champ, Kimi Raikkonen, is dabbling in functional eyewear. The company’s Night Vision specs are designed to thwart pesky near-sightedness in low light situations by contrasting dark colors like green and blue. The lenses have a high light transmission rate thanks to [...]

Quick: What’s got 7,140 horsepower, 28 turbochargers and 70 radiators? If your answer is “Seven Bugatti Veyrons” you can read headlines. Straight from the UK, EVO mag is reporting that the annual meeting of the Bugatti’s Owners Club brought together more of the 254 mph uber duper supercars than ever before. Bugatti even shipped over [...]

We’re all bleeding out at the pump right now, but I maintain shooting-for-the-stratosphere gas prices aren’t all bad. Just as the fuel pinch of the ‘70s eventually yielded great leaps forward in efficiency and power, so will today’s astronomical petrol prices. With manufacturers realizing that Joe Shmoe will pay for fun-to-drive fuel efficient vehicles, it [...]

Ferrari’s coming soon piece of sex-on-wheels wasn’t completely doing it for us. We’re not really cabriolet guys over here, even though we like a front engined, high revving V8 as much as the next guy. As svelte as the top-down lines were, we’re holding out for a (GTS?) hardtop version. However, Maranello just released some [...]