Tag: John Coyle

If you think a 550-horsepower Italian supercar and a lead-footed lady can make the Florida and Georgia sticks a little more interesting, you’d be right.

Right now, I’m sitting in a gorgeous ninth floor room at the W Hotel in South Beach. The ocean view is breathtaking. The weather is tropical. The guaranteed madness of the 2014 Gumball 3000 lies ahead. And like sharks poised for a feeding frenzy, angry supercars circle the surrounding streets. A few minutes ago, one of […] More »

You can’t be totally prepared for the Gumball 3000. The full-frontal assault of ferocious supercars, exotic locales and block-rocking parties is enough to turn the brains of most mortals into an exhaust-rattled, octane-spiked blob of tapioca pudding.

The ladies of AnastasiaDate are running the legendary Gumball 3000. And in a radiant illustration of what it’s better to be lucky than smart, I’ll be tagging along to document the insanity. Live coverage starts June 4th!

You can always count on there being tons of crazy cars at SEMA. It’s as far from a consumer show as you can get, so bonkers-grade machines are a given. The other thing that’s a given? Hot girls. Of course, 90% of them are being paid to be here, but let’s not split hairs. I […] More »

Where there’s smoke, there’s fire—generally at least. At the starting line, this Duramax is putting out pretty healthy—if you aren’t having to breathe it at least—ammount of smoke. The Ram actually looks like some kind of tree-hugging hybrid in comparison! But while the Bow Tie might be impressive at idle, it’s what happens after the […] More »

What’s better than a ferocious diesel truck ripping down a dragstrip? Two ferocious diesel trucks ripping down a dragstrip! I’m based in California, and if either one of these bad-ass oil-burners found their way into Los Angeles, they’d probably be impounded on sight. But everything is bigger in the Great State of Texas, and that […] More »