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Papa John's selling recovered Camaro diecast, free pizza and charity involved

We're suckers for a happy ending – especially when it involves cars, kids, and hot pizza. Recall, if you will, this past summer when John Schnatter, founder of Papa John's Pizza, was on a nationwide quest to find his beloved 1971 1/2 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 – a car he sold in the mid-Eighties to fund his first store. John found his car in Kentucky, paid out more than a quarter of a million dollars in finder's fees, and then generously gave free pizzas from its 2,600 nationwide locations to all Camaro owners on August 26th. Still ... Read more →

VIDEO: Why? Dude blows up diecast cars in slow-mo Chris Shunk

We'll tell you exactly why, because it's a lot of fun. We know, because we had a similar experience in late adolescence, but we used GI Joe vehicles (even the awesome hovercraft) and firecrackers. ...

Spike announces nominees for Best Driving Game of the Year Jonathon Ramsey

Spike TV has opened up the voting for its Video Game Awards, and the finalists are down to four: DiRT 2, Need for Speed: Shift, Forza Motorsport 3, and Gran Turismo PSP. It's a bit of a motley ...

GoPro introduces HD line of Hero cameras Jonathon Ramsey

GoPro has unveiled its line of HD cameras specially adapted for motorsports, helmets, surfing, and R/C – although a bendy arm and a suction cup mean you could use them to record your ...

VIDEO: Even if the Mercedes E-Class Wagon doesn't handle like a slot car, it can still handle slot cars Jonny Lieberman

First of all, yes – this is pure Mercedes-Benz propaganda. We're fully aware of that fact. Second, despite it all, we're very jealous of what takes place in this video. In order to show off ...

SEMA Sweeps: Win one of five Sony PSP/Gran Turismo bundles - Day 4 1 month ago on Autoblog

It's Day 4 of our SEMA Sweeps! After giving away three of five limited-edition PSP/Gran Turismo bundles, we're ready to give away our fourth. Yesterday's winner has been randomly selected and contacted, so here's how you can win today. We're doing this in honor of the SEMA Show in Las Vegas, ...

SEMA 2009: Toyota Tacoma All-Terrain Gamer (ATG) takes gaming to illogical conclusions 1 month ago on Autoblog

It's said that one hundred monkeys typing for eternity will eventually bang out the complete works of William Shakespeare. However, they will also come up with a whole bunch of other, um... stuff. Including the design brief for this thing. Yes friends, you are looking at a pickup truck designed ...

Ferrari World Abu Dhabi gears up for grand opening in 2010 1 month ago on Autoblog

Television coverage of Formula One grands prix typically end with an aerial shot of the podium and the fans beneath it, a panorama usually dominated by the tifosi passing a giant Scuderia Ferrari flag over the crowd. That view may have been largely absent with the void of Ferrari victories this ...

Intel Inside: Audi launching special Forza edition TT? 1 month ago on Autoblog

As far as art imitating life goes, it doesn't get much more realistic than Forza 3. But it was only a matter of time before life would in turn imitate art, and here it is: the Audi TT Forza Motorsport Edition. Launched by Audi in conjunction with Microsoft, the Forza edition TT is being ...

VW launches Real Racing GTI on iPhone, giving away six GTIs! 1 month ago on Autoblog

Volkswagen is no stranger to promoting its vehicles using games for the iPhone and iPhone Touch. Witness such forgetables as Volkswagen Polo Challenge 3D [iTunes link] and Volkswagen Scirocco R 24H Challenge 3D [iTunes link], both by developer FISHLABS. Neither game is very fun to play, being on ...

The Lexus LFA may cost $375k, but the paper one is free 1 month ago on Autoblog

Many people are into model cars. And... origami. Tangrams, too – which are sort of a two-dimensional, reusable form of origami. What are we on about here, why are we discussing folding paper and models? Funny you should ask. See, the all new Lexus LFA went ahead and got revealed the other ...

VIDEO: Japanese market Gran Turismo PSP commercial is fantastic and revolting 1 month ago on Autoblog

Don't worry, this video is totally safe for work. But we're saying revolting because we can remember back years ago we watched Clint Eastwood's Pink Cadillac with a friend's father who happened to restore muscle cars for a living. Anywho, as you might imagine the 1959 Cadillac gets pretty dinged ...

VIDEO: Gran Turismo 5 box art and packaging, SLS AMG may be cover car 1 month ago on Autoblog

Gran Turismo 5. We've teased you in the past with constantly shifting debut dates and posted most every video we can find. But today is a new day, and this time we're going to show you... another video. GT5 creator Kazunori Yamauchi sat down with GT Planet to discuss how much work goes into the ...

550 Reindeer-Power: Lamborghini celebrates Christmas early with Balboni baubles 1 month ago on Autoblog

With households across America still decking their halls with jack-o-lanters and all manner of goolish decorations, it may be a tad soon to start thinking about the winter holiday season. But for Lamborghini, Christmas arrives early this year with the launch of the hardcore Balboni edition ...

Gran Turismo creator to select Best in Show at SEMA that will be featured in upcoming game 1 month ago on Autoblog

Each year at SEMA, a select group of editors and contributors from the world's largest automotive publications scour the show floor to hand out prizes for the best hot rod, Japanese import, European import, domestic automobile and SUV. But not the overall Best in Show award. That'll be handed out by ...

Automoblox unveils hot rods and heavy duty pickup 1 month ago on Autoblog

We've been reporting on (and buying) the Automoblox line of heirloom quality toy cars for sometime, but recently there hasn't been much out of Patrick Calello's company to knock our socks off. That's about to change just in time for the holiday shopping season, however, as Automoblox will be ...

Forza Motorsport 3: Official car list and free DLC announced, new trailer released [w/VIDEO] 1 month ago on Autoblog

For the last several months, the folks over at Turn 10 Studios have teased us with previews of the cars that will star in Forza Motorsports 3. The highlights have included Ferraris, American muscle, sedans and SUVs, a variety of Japanese sports and racing cars, the almighty Bugatti 16.4 Veyron, ...

Mark Your Calendars: Michael Bay says Transformers 3 coming... on July 1, 2011 2 months ago on Autoblog

We may have found this summer's blockbuster, Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen to be heavy on the sizzle and lean on the meat, but that doesn't mean we've written off the series – after all, it's hard to dismiss excellent CG work, the childhood toys of our youth... to say nothing of ...

VIDEO: Behind the scenes of the PSP vs Driver ad 2 months ago on Autoblog

If you missed the Gran Turismo Playstation Portable ad we featured earlier this week, have a look. We'll wait... Back? Great. What you saw was Tanner Foust and Rhys Millen running around Laguna Seca, with Millen behind the wheel of a Corvette ZR1 and Foust riding shotgun while running the ...

VIDEO: Gran Turismo PSP ad at Laguna Seca is art imitating life imitating art. Or something. 2 months ago on Autoblog

In terms of tracks, we'd guess that while the Nürburgring gets the most press, Laguna Seca is number two. And with good reason, as Mazda's Raceway is fast, technical, beautiful and challenging. Plus, because the famed track's in Caramel, California, you get gorgeous, picture postcard ...

VIDEO: Gran Turismo PSP opening movie - Here come the supercars 2 months ago on Autoblog

The folks who have crafted Gran Turismo for Sony's PSP have put together an opening movie sequence, and as you might imagine, it is chock full of supercars. And we mean bursting-at-its-pixelated-seams with just about every hot car you could ever want to drive on the road, the dirt, and the ...

Gran Turismo 5 to ship internationally in late 2009 after all? 2 months ago on Autoblog

Last week, Sony announced that Gran Turismo 5 would launch by March 2010. The folks at Polyphony Digital don't see things that way, though, as company boss Kazunori Yamauchi told reporters at a GT5 event that the game could launch in late 2009. And Yamauchi has apparently mentioned that both ...

PCRides launches licensed Dodge Charger SRT8 desktop computer 2 months ago on Autoblog

It would be understandable, should you be lucky enough to occupy your driveway with a Dodge Charger SRT8, that the car would occupy your thoughts more often than something more bland. For high-style computing, many turn to the folks at Apple, but that's just one design direction. PC Rides has an ...

Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG looks good in Gran Turismo 5, too [w/VIDEO] 2 months ago on Autoblog

Here at Autoblog, some of the background chatter re: Forza 3 vs. Gran Turismo 5 reaches Ford vs. Chevy levels of fervor – this blogger and our Editor-in-Chief get into it on IM fairly regularly. You see, Forza is one of few topics that gets our generally mild-mannered Neff all exercised. ...

Gran Turismo 5 will launch March 2010... in Japan 2 months ago on Autoblog

When Gran Turismo 4 was launched in Japan for the Playstation 2, George Bush was just getting ready to start his second term and the Chrysler 300 was the big buzz in the auto world. In other words, January 10, 2005 was a very long time ago, and we're probably going to have to wait a while longer ...

Brick By Brick: James May's Lego house comes down 2 months ago on Autoblog

Top Gear host James May went to Dorking, England and built a Lego fort house in an orchard with more than three million Lego pieces. Now it's time for him to vacate the premises, and the house has been torn down. Mays had tried to get the structure taken to the Lego park in Windsor, but the cost ...

Forza 3 celebrates the Ferraris in our lives, joins GT5 in celebration of the 458 Italia 2 months ago on Autoblog

There are 29 Ferraris in Forza Motorsport 3, from the 1964 Ferrari 250 GTO to today's 599 GTB. And just for good measure, the kind folks at Forza threw in a few dream(ier) rides, including modern FIA GT cars, as well as the F40 and F50 Competizione models. You want more? Done. You'll be able to ...

Want to take the Audi e-tron for a test drive? Grab your Playstation 3 2 months ago on Autoblog

You might expect a car with four motors and 3,319 lb-ft of torque to take a great deal of electronics and skill with the right foot to drive properly. If so, you got the electronics part right at least: Audi has created a virtual world for its e-tron electric car that will be featured in ...

VIDEO: Beyond Gran Turismo 5 - Koenigsegg CCX 2 months ago on Autoblog

We're pretty excited about the new Gran Turismo 5 video game for the PlayStation 3 and PSP, and the sneak peeks we've seen so far have been astonishingly good. We know GT5 will have some sweet damage rendering capabilities, night racing and weather changes. Plus, we know the graphics are ...

0-60 builds its own Need For Speed racing cabinet, tells you how 2 months ago on Autoblog

For the first time in a long time, we sat down and played a racing game the other night. Fine, it wasn't a racing game -- it was the VirtualGT racing simulator. What did we learn? Georgia ought to pass a law against letting us onto Road Atlanta in a Porsche 997 Cup car. Also, instead of sitting ...

Confirmed? Gran Turismo 5 hits stores on Dec. 29 2 months ago on Autoblog

Well, we can put all the rumor-mongering to rest. Reader Larry Spector emailed us this morning with confirmation that Gran Turismo 5 will hit the shelves (and obliterate the productivity of thousands of PS3 owners) on December 29. Is Larry a sneaky Sony employee? Nope, he's a regular Amazon user ...

VIDEO: Ken Block takes unsuspecting DiRT 2 players out on hot laps 2 months ago on Autoblog

DiRT 2 had a coming out party in the UK and not only did Ken Block join the festivities, he decided to surprise some big-talking gamers with a couple of hot laps. If we could take anything from the demonstration, it's that Ken Block looks to be just as badass when driving on the other side of ...

New racing game announced for... Sega Dreamcast?!?!?! 2 months ago on Autoblog

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gaming_news/New_Racing_Game_Announced_For_Sega_Dreamcast_w_vid'; Hypothetically, let's say you're bored with all the realistic gameplay and endless tuning options of current racing games. What you really want is a rallying game that looks like it was released ...

VIDEO: Need for Speed: Shift adds legendary Car Battle game mode 2 months ago on Autoblog

Need for Speed: Shift has added a Car Battle mode that pits some of the fastest, fittest, downright nastiest machinery out there in head-to-head matchups. Fifteen different matchups are possible with cars like the Ford GT going against the Dodge Viper, Cayman and M3 sports car racers battling it ...

Forza 3 demo hits Sept. 24 with five vehicles to drive 2 months ago on Autoblog

Can't wait until Forza 3 hits stores on October 27th? You're in luck! Turn 10 Studios has announced that a demo version will be available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace starting September 24th, allowing you to get a taste of the improved graphics and new features that will be a part of the third ...

VIDEOS: Need for Speed SHIFT track guides for Road America, Willow Springs and Laguna Seca 3 months ago on Autoblog

Make no mistake about it: the racing games are coming. But while it may be all to easy to get lost in all the hype over the latest from Microsoft's Forza or Sony's Gran Turismo franchises, Electronic Arts has a trick of its own up its sleeve. (We're just kidding, everyone knows gamers don't wear ...

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