BMW has released another teaser to tout bolt on goodies for its 3-series. There’s plenty of carbon fiber, both in useful bits, like a front strut tower brace and light-weight seats, and useless pieces like dash accents. There’s also some sort of tech-laden steering wheel and the obligatory “BMW Performance” door sills. What you can’t [...]

EA Games and the makers of Need For Speed Undercover are hosting one hell of a shindig in LA to celebrate the release of the game. How do you release a game that’s all about making fast cars faster? With a car show, of course. The party will feature a slurry of sexy sheet metal, [...]

HKS has been cranking out the hottest aftermarket bits out there for 35 years now. It’s only fitting that the company show off all its goods for the Nissan GT-R as way of an anniversary celebration. If you’re fortunate enough to hold the keys to the newest Godzilla and want even more Porsche-destroying power, HKS [...]

TomTom’s newest GPS unit uses some pretty neat tech to stay updated on traffic conditions. The system has stored drive time figures for multiple routes, and combines that information with anonymous surveys of the number of mobile phones moving through a network. If there are lots of phones stuck in one area, the Go x40 [...]

Alpine is throwing its hat into the portable navigation device segment with their new PND-K3. Rocking a touch screen interface, voice turn-by-turn directions and over 6 million points of interest, this little puppy can go ten rounds with the best of them. If you’re still mired in the dark ages of Google Maps, or worse [...]

On August 20, GT-R owners and droolers alike will get their first shot at seeing what the mad scientists at Nissan have cooked up for the newest iteration of Godzilla. NISMO is letting loose their arsenal of wheels, ecu’s, carbon fiber pieces, suspension, cooling systems and exhaust on Japanese owners later this month. No word [...]

Check out this toy from PLX Devices. It’s a gauge that plugs straight into your OBD-II port on your car (assuming you have an OBD-II car) that delivers info on everything from RPM, engine load, coolant temp and air temp to error codes. Screw running a tangle of wires for 10 plus aftermarket gauges, this [...]

Regardless of your feelings on the Hoff (loser), Knight Rider is one of the coolest damn TV shows ever made. For eight-year-olds. What’s better than an all-black Trans-Am tricked out with bad-guy thwarting do-dads? One that talks, that’s what. That’s why in the mind of a six-year-old KITT, Michael Knight’s trusty side-kick (and ride), smoked [...]

The folks at the helm of some of the best in-car GPS systems on the planet are suddenly hitting the mobile phone market. Garmin’s 3.5 gig Nuvifone is loaded with a touch screen, premium phone service and, not surprisingly, a personal navigator. The phone will double as a vehicle navigation system when used with a [...]

With more navigation systems poping up on the market (most of which being much cheaper than OEM offerings) it’s no surprize that Sony would decide to step into the nav game.  The Nav-U is totally portable and comes with a suction cup so you can safely plant it where ever it needs to be, say [...]