Learning The Ropes At West Coast Customs

By Jen Dunnaway Editor CarDomain member madmods hooked us up with a spot in the West Coast Customs welding and fabrication workshop, so Rob and I headed over to the WCC corral to play with a plasma cutter and a tig welder. I've never welded or plasma-cut anything, so I was stoked, and Rob was so into it that he's decided to get a tig when he gets home. I was a total natural at welding without filler material—just stay a little ahead of the puddle!—but my failure at welding the same...

07/11/2008

Lots of Pics from the SEMA Mopar Booth

By Rob Einaudi Editor-in-Chief I went back through the Mopar booth again yesterday and managed to get pics of most of the cars. I think my favorite was the Dick Landy Hemi Dart, but this Targa Challenger with a 392 Hemi was pretty cool, too. A ton of pics after the jump.

06/11/2008

Lexus IS F Builds at the SEMA Lexus Proving Grounds

By Rob Einaudi Editor-in-Chief I dropped by the SEMA Lexus Proving Grounds to check out the IS F builds we've been tracking on CarDomain, and my buddy Brian Fox was there showing off his new Callaway golf clubs. I've got a ton of pics of the cars after the jump, and stay tuned for my interview with crazy Brian Fox.

05/11/2008

La Carrera Panamericana Rolls Through Oaxaca

By Rob Einaudi Editor-in-Chief Trevor, one of CarDomain's awesome developers, happened to be vacationing down in Mexico on Friday the 24th when all of a sudden La Carrera Panamericana came roaring through. See all the shots he took in the square of the town of Oaxaca after the jump. Gotta love the Washington state Corvair with the Ralph Nader bumper sticker!

31/10/2008

La Carrera Panamericana 2008

By Gary Faules NASA Mentor Director Racing can be and is dangerous and running in La Carrera Panamericana is no exception. I can't begin to tell you how many times I have read comments on various message boards saying things like, "It's not really a race" or "It's a race where CEO types compete in cars that really don't go all that fast." The best reply I have to those types of comments is to invite them down to watch, and then afterwards I'll ask them if they still feel that way. Then...

29/10/2008

Local Hero

By Rob Einaudi Editor-in-Chief Earlier this year, my better half finally talked me into buying a Subaru for family hauling duties. Since this was my first experience with something that wasn't an old RWD Mopar or Volvo, I knew I needed to find a good Subaru mechanic. I asked Ryan Douthit, who owns Subiesport, and he recommended Smart Service up in Shoreline (just north of Seattle). Last week I brought our car in to Smart for the 60k service and spent some time talking to Gary Cavett, their...

28/10/2008

Lambo Wrecks and Breaks in Half in Fort Worth, Texas

By Rob Einaudi Editor-in-Chief Pretty nasty wreck in Texas this weekend. Apparently the driver of this Gallardo lost control in the rain and slammed into a tree. Half the car continued some ways down the street. Somehow, no one was killed, though someone lost a foot. Two more pics after the jump, and you can see the rest over at Jalopnik.

27/10/2008

Laguna Coupe

By Craig McAlpine iMotor Just got back from the Renault Laguna Coupe launch in Portugal. I took this photo on my phone of the rear quarter because in THAT color, in THAT light, it reminds me of something British... Full review next week on iMotor.

24/10/2008

Love It or Hate It?

By Ben Schaffer Bulletproof Automotive This was taken from Studie’s blog in Japan. Studie Japan builds some sick BMWs—if you don't know about them, please educate yourself. This is one of their demo cars. I can see reasons both to love this car and to talk trash about it. Overall, I really like it, but I wouldn't be caught dead driving it. It's just way too loud of a color for me. A rapper I could picture driving this, though. I’d drive it with a race helmet on at all times (even in...

21/10/2008

Lamborghini Reventon on eBay

By Danny aka Dboy23 One of only 20 ever made, this Lamborghini Reventon has enjoyed some pretty steep appreciation—or so the seller thinks. With an original sticker price of "only" $1.6 million, they've got it listed with a Buy It Now of $2.5M. Sounds steep, but with the original production run long over, and most of the initial buyers hanging onto these cars, the seller just might hit the jackpot after all. Check out the auction.

13/10/2008

LC From the Hills Sporting a New Audi R8

By Ryan Porter Marketing Guy You tell me, did Lauren Conrad hop over to her local Audi dealership with the notion that she wanted an Audi R8 to drive all around Los Angeles, or did some Audi marketing team come up with the idea that putting "young Hollywood" in one of their hottest cars would be a good marketing tool? Check out more of LC and her R8 over at Celebrity Cars Blog.

09/10/2008

Lamborghini Family Hauler Revealed!

By Rob Einaudi Editor-in-Chief Shots of the new Lamborghini Estoque just hit the web, less than 24 hours before its official reveal in Paris tomorrow. I don't know, what do you guys think? I'm just glad Lambo finally has a car that you can use to take the kids to school. See all the pics over at Jalopnik.

01/10/2008

Lajitas Resort

By Matt Farah Garage 419 Driving 1800 miles in two days (while easily doable given a proper car, a case of Red Bull, and a company gas card) can still beat the crap out of you. That's why our arrival at the Lajitas Resort just outside Terlingua, TX was a welcome break from the road. The parking lot was filled with dozens of cars from Shelby's entire recent model range including the relatively mild Shelby GT, to the positively insane  600+ horsepower GT500 Super Snake. As nice as our glass...

29/09/2008

Lego Theme Trunk Install From 1999

By Rob Einaudi Editor-in-Chief CarDomain celebrated its 10th birthday on Friday and some of you were surprised to learn that we'd been around that long. Well, here's one from back in the day--check out this Grand Prix ride page, which hasn't been updated since 1999. Pretty sweet Lego trunk install, huh?

23/09/2008

Lamborghini's October Surprise

By John Coyle Editor For the last few days, rumors have been swirling about the car Lamborghini intends to reveal at the Paris Auto Show early next month. The initial pic left a lot to the imagination, but the text which accompanied it—"It's not just a new Lamborghini, it's a new world"—got the automotive blogs buzzing. Well, the latest photo to emerge from Sant'Agata seems to confirm what many in the industry have speculated: the newest Raging Bull will be a front-engined four door. Since...

19/09/2008

Latest Update From Team Size Matters

By Rob Einaudi Editor-in-Chief Here's the latest from Tom of Team Size Matters, running in the Toledo 24 Hours of Lemons: Took my second stint in the car  from about midnight to 2 am. Drove VERY slow as I did not want to get another black flag and have our team get kicked out for our fourth black flag. It is almos 3 am now and it looks like the rain they said would come did not,  which is fantastic news since our car has very aggressive summer autocross tires on it  we are currently in...

14/09/2008

Life is Beautiful: Aston Martin Saturday!

By John Coyle Editor Tomorrow afternoon, Rob and I heading out to Park Place Aston Martin in Bellevue to take the new V8 Vantage for a spin. Oh. My. God. This is easily one of my favorite cars on the planet, and I absolutely can not wait to get behind the wheel. When I told my best buddy—who never gets jealous about any of the crazy stuff I get to do—about my appointment with the 420 horsepower British beast, he completely freaked out, professed his undying hate for me, and then asked just...

13/09/2008

Losing Battle

By Katherine Helmetag AKA atomicalex I've been fighting a losing battle for about four weeks now, and I'm about to give up. About two years ago, I had the bright idea to do a rear disc brake conversion on my Rabbit, and started stockpiling the parts needed. But this project seems like it's been cursed from day one. First, the $70 I spent on a "ready to install" set of spindles, calipers, and carriers netted me one good spindle and no good calipers, and now the new rear beam I snagged for...

12/09/2008

Lotus Concept Ice Vehicle

By Craig McAlpine iMotor The CIV (Concept Ice Vehicle) was developed by Lotus engineers outside of office hours to participate in the Moon Regan Trans Antarctic Expedition. It's powered by a highly modified BMW motorbike engine and the main body shell has been nicked from a micro-light! It has already been tested up to 85 mph on the ice, and if you keep up the speed it can travel over water, too! More details at iMotormag.co.uk, and be sure to check out the video of this thing in action....

12/09/2008

Lapping the Belle Isle Street Course

By John Coyle Editor While I was in Detroit for the American Le Mans Series race last weekend, I was a little freaked out by how incredibly tight and technical the Belle Isle course was. Seriously, it looked like one little screw up would send you sliding into the concrete barriers, and I was curious to see what an entire lap looked like from a driver's perspective. So imagine how stoked I was when I saw that someone had posted a clip of lead Corvette engineer Tom Wallace navigating the...

04/09/2008

Lambo Crashes And Burns: Wreckage Video Shows Almost Nothing Left

By Jen Dunnaway Editor I don't know if it's a full moon or what, but the spate of exotic car wrecks that took place over the Labor Day weekend continues with yet another fatality. This one happened on Saturday when a 30-year-old guy in California drove a lime-green Murcielago through a guardrail and flew off a freeway, landing on a parking structure below and bursting into flames. The extremely sad post-wreck video below shows how absolutely the Lambo was destroyed. More details at...

03/09/2008

Le Mans Cars Headed Out For Afternoon Practice

By John Coyle Editor As I mentioned earlier, the Detroit stop of the American Le Mans Series is a street course. So after the drivers finish tearing it up this weekend, the asphalt will go back to hosting regular folks driving at regular speeds. And while road courses are tricky for drivers—they're generally bumpier and more technical than purpose-built tracks—they also make taking pics of the cars in action a lot more difficult. Now, at most of the tracks I've been to, a little bit of...

30/08/2008

Little Joey Logano To Take Tony Stewart's Big Seat

By Jen Dunnaway Editor As you might already know, Tony Stewart is splitting from Joe Gibbs Racing and heading back to Chevies next year, striking out on his own as owner-driver for the team currently known as Haas-CNC. Who better to take his place than 18-year-old Joey Logano, who's been turning heads this year following his impressive debut in NASCAR's Nationwide Series back in June? Logano is quite the firecracker, though with NASCAR having finally acknowledged that Toyota is enjoying...

26/08/2008

Land Rover Sustains Hail Of Bullets In Georgian War Zone

By Jen Dunnaway Editor You've gotta feel for these Turkish reporters, who seem to be trying to back out of a checkpoint when someone opens fire on their Land Rover. It's a truly harrowing video, especially when the driver is jamming it in reverse while trying to keep his head down as the bullets fly. The sunroof explodes and people get shot, and even though everyone seems to have gotten out alive, things don't look good for them in the end. I sure would like to have gotten a look at the...

15/08/2008

LS1-Powered Porsches

By Ralf Becker Chromjuwelen The blown LS1 sits nicely in the back of this 911, and weighs less than the original Porsche engine. And the wing houses the radiator! Be sure to check out the same guy's 914 conversion after the jump. Source: Toy-Jet.com and FullThrottleV6.com.

07/08/2008

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