Luxury Car for the Frugal: The 2012 Audi A6 2.0T Will Start at Just $42,575, Return 33 MPG

Drive the Cadillac to the early-bird buffet no more! For a modest $42,575, Audi will put you in a delightful new A6, so you can chauffeur the Izod-clad canasta team in German style. For your hard-earned money, you’ll get a turbocharged and direct-injected 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine with 211 hp and 258 lb-ft. With the blown [...]

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2011 Subaru Impreza WRX STI tS Driven: Too Good to be True?

More initials mean less weight and more good for the Impreza WRX STI. To most people, the Subaru Impreza is a practical compact sedan with enhanced all-weather capability. But enthusiasts have long known its darker side. The WRX alludes to the WRC rally car, and for several years now, Subaru has offered Americans the STI [...]

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Watch a V8 Ford Falcon racer drift entire victory lap [Video]

Shane Van Gisbergen pulled out a win at this weekend's Hidden Valley round of the V8 Supercars series. To celebrate he drifted his V8 Ford Falcon around the entire track. More »

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Gearbox: Driving Bibs Tested

Accidents happen. But for grown-ups, spilling food on oneself while driving isn?t an accident, it?s called slobbishness. Still, if social anxiety prevents you from choosing the dine-in option, there?s a way to keep your clothes, if not your dignity, unsoiled. We tested two of a disturbingly large number of available adult bibs. SlobStopper $14.95, plus [...]

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Chevrolet Prices the 2012 Sonic From $14,495; Hatchback Starts at $15,395

As the fall on-sale date for Chevrolet?s 2012 Sonic approaches, the company has provided more info about its forget-about-the-Aveo subcompact. Earlier this month we sampled the Sonic on a makeshift autocross course, and today the automaker announced that its new small car will start at $14,495. For that coin, you’ll get the entry-level LS sedan; [...]

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Birdman's New Ride: $2 million Bugatti Veyron


It seems that Birdman aka Bryan Williams has already grown tired of the Exelero he purchased back in February. The American rapper recently purchased yet another vehicle to add to his collection and, although his new Bugatti Veyron isn’t as expensive as the Exelero, it’s equally as impressive.

The rapper seems to have a thing for the color red too, as his $2 million fire flame red Veyron matches his red helicopter. According to Birdman "red is a fly color. It’s hot; represents heat. It’s the flyest color out there and it just blinds me."

Hopefully the color won’t blind him too much considering he’ll now be sitting in a 1001 HP quad-turbocharged W16 supercar. The funny part about that is the rapper insists he is not one of those guys that likes speed: "I’ve gone on the interstate and busted, maybe, 160 [mph] going to the Heat game. Besides that, I don’t really play with speed. I ain’t one of them that play in that world. I do like it ’cause it’s fly and the fastest car in the world and it’s expensive, but I don’t like playing with too much speed."

Somehow, we don’t believe that, but we’ll give him the benefit of the doubt for now. However, he can bet on the fact that we’ll be watching closely for his next speeding ticket.

Hit the source link if you are interested in DUB magazine’s full interview with Birdman.

Birdman's New Ride: $2 million Bugatti Veyron originally appeared on topspeed.com on Tuesday, 21 June 2011 15:00 EST.

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2011 Nissan Leaf EV Test Drive: Plug-In Electric Paves Road to 2010 Launch

Nissan continues its EV full court press with an ambitious, all-electric vehicle called Leaf that will be available in 2010. We tested the original EV-02 prototype of this car last year. And now, we've spent some time behind the wheel of a newer model in Japan.

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What I?d Do Differently: Zak Brown ? Interview

A frustrated racer turned businessman, Brown, 39, is founder and CEO of ?Just Marketing, Inc., the world?s leading motorsports marketing agency. He?s less? frustrated now. C/D:Just so we?re clear, you are not singer and musician Zac Brown. ZB: I do get occasional congratulations on my Grammy award. But I?ve never met him. He even spells [...]

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EyesOn Design Charity Car Show for the Visually Impaired Need Not Be Seen to Be Appreciated

How does one judge a car?s styling? By studying how a design?s shapes and curves catch the light, or by focusing on the interplay between the details and the broader form? How about feeling the bodywork with your hands? This is exactly how one styling award is judged at the Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology?s annual [...]

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BMW Unveils the Twin-Turbo 2012 M5

Meet the most powerful M5 ever. Things are about to get a lot more normal under the hood of the BMW M5. The outgoing car packed an utterly insane 5.0-liter V-10, which made 500 hp?at a screaming 7750 rpm. Prior to that, the E39 M5, which was sold in the late 1990s and early 2000s, [...]

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