From Fast Company: "Aiming to make a big, eco-friendly splash, BMW unveils a new hybrid concept car."

This car is damn pretty... too bad you'd have no chance at survival in a side-impact collision.

If you’ve got cash burning holes in your pockets and a need for speed, check out Forbes’ list of Cool Driving Schools. From BMW to Land Rover, they’ve got everything the autophile in you craves. Here’s the list (my money, if I had some, would go to Team O’Neil Rally School):

• BMW Performance Driving School (Greenville, S.C., $1300-$4000)
• Richard Petty Driving Experience (Worldwide, $100-$3000)
• Jim Russell Racing Drivers School (Sonoma, California, $550-$5500)
• Saab Aero Academy (Braselton, GA, $1500 ($500 for Saab owners… are there any?))
• Mercedes AMG Driving Academy (Conn, Florida and Monterey, $1900-$3500)
• Land Rover Experience Driving Schools (Multiple Resorts, $850 (or $1900 for a resort package)
• Overland Experts (Worldwide, $850pp)
• Ivor Wigham’s European Rally & Performance Driving School (Starke, Florida, $1400-$5300)
• Bridgestone Racing Academy (Toronto, $245-$1695 CA)
• Team O’Neil Rally School (New Dalton, N.H., $1650-$4150)

From Esquire: "What does give automobiles that delicious scent, and where can buy it? Do they make an aftershave?"

Hmmm... new car smell is poisonous? That explains a lot.

From Uncrate: "With gull-wing doors that recall the classic Mercedes-Benz 300SL and a beefy V8 engine, the AC Cobra MkVI ($TBA) is a fine new ride. It features a retro design, a..."

I would sell my soul for this car.

From Yahoo News: "AP - Authorities in Ohio say a man has been charged with drunken driving after crashing his motorized bar stool. Police in Newark, 30 miles east of Columbus, say when they responded to a report of a crash with injuries on March 4, they found a man who had wrecked a bar stool powered by a deconstructed lawn mower."

Despite its normal appearance, the 2005 Nissan Xterra in this recent CraigList’s post is actually “engineered by 3rd degree ninja super-warriors in the highest mountains of Japan to serve the needs of the man that cheats death on a daily basis. They didn’t even consider superfluous nancy boy amenities like navigation systems (real men don’t get lost), heated leather seats (a real man doesn’t let anything warm his butt), or On Star (real men don’t even know what the hell On Star is).”

So if you’re in the market for a car forged by Ninjas and have a spare $13,000 laying around, you too can own the “Tom Selleck of Nissans.”

I can’t tell you how excited I was when I saw a movie trailer entitled “Death Race” because I thought it was a remake of the classic Death Race 2000. Unfortunately, its not. Instead of getting points for killing doctors and babies, the 2008 version of Death Race is simply a competition of prisoners racing for their freedom. I’ll still Netflix this, but it’s not Death Race 2000.

Wow! I’ve seen some odd fetishes in my time, but when a front-end loader can strip a woman quicker than I can… that’s just not right.

A recent study surveying motorists on road rage lists Miami, not Boston, as the city with the most road rage incidents. Here’s the top 10:

1. Miami
2. New York
3. Boston
4. Los Angeles
5. Washington, D.C.
6. Phoenix
7. Chicago
8. Sacramento, Calif.
9. Philadelphia
10. San Francisco

The reasons most often cited for the cause of road rage? Cell phones, eating, trucker bombs and road head… not necessarily in that order.

I read a great feature in Wired a few months back about a team of salvage experts that were called out to save a capsized ship containing about 4000 new Mazdas. A guy died trying to save the ship and Mazda paid a pretty penny to the salvage company, but still ended up destroying all of the cars.