Jay Leno takes us for a stroll around the Concept Lawn at this year’s Pebble Beach car show. He checks out Infiniti’s electric Emerg-E, the Mercedes-Benz Concept Style Coupe and a collector Rolls Royce Coupe from their bespoke program.
You’re going to want to set aside a solid 45 minutes to watch these videos. We continue to reap the benefits of YouTube paying good money to car magazines for original content to rival traditional TV shows. Motor Trend’s latest installment is their 2012 Best Driver’s Car compilation. I like the way they do this annual comparison because a lot of people tend to misuse the term “driver’s car,” but Motor Trend has got it right and they stick to their guns. What makes a good driver’s car goes way beyond the numbers of the performance statistics. The 0-60 time doesn’t say anything about the car’s balance, feedback, fun or driver engagement. Those things are much harder to describe, but thankfully we have Johnny Lieberman, Carlos Lagos and Randy Pobst here working together to convey the driving experiences of this dream car lineup. This year they rounded up the Jaguar XKR-S, Subaru BRZ, Lamborghini Aventador, Porsche 911 Carrera S, Ford Shelby GT500, Nissan GT-R Black Edition, Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG Black Series and McLaren MP4-12C. The boys start out by doing winding road introductions of each car and then they turn them over to Randy for hot laps around Laguna Seca. They finish up by choosing a top 3 and then driving them some more to pick an overall winner.
The guys over at Motor Trend are doing a great job with coming up with interesting comparisons for this Head 2 Head series on YouTube. This time they look at the two cars that built the Golden Years of DTM, the German Touring Car Championship. Another signature characteristic of the Head 2 Head series is the excellent review of the details of each car. The reviewers always describe what it’s like to drive the cars for those who will never have the opportunity. This video is no exception.
Unlike people who aren’t into cars, I’m sure that if you regularly visit this blog you can appreciate the fact that I think it would be hilarious for me to show up to my own funeral sideways squared in a drifting hearse. On this classic episode of Will it Drift?, Steve Sutcliffe tries to slide the nicest hearse I have ever seen. It’s a stretched Mercedes E-Class with a Popemobile-esque bubble in the back to display a casket and a 3.0 liter TDi engine in the front that makes 200 horsepower. I wonder if they ever made one based on the E63 AMG because that would be even cooler and driftier.
Tiff Needell does a head to head track battle to find out which front engine rear drive European super roadster is the fastest. He pits the Mercedes Benz SLS AMG Roadster against the Aston Martin DBS Volante on a rainy track to see which one could post the fastest time.