Twitter: never has the Internet seen so much controversy. Well, not since this morning at about 8:43 a.m., actually. Whether you think Twitter is a pile of uselessness, or you virtually live and breathe in 140-character form, High Gear Media is all over Twitter. It’s true: our core sites all have Twitter accounts and you might be following ..… Read the rest

The cost to own America’s own 638-horsepower supercar just got more expensive. GM recently released prices of all Corvette models to dealers and the 2010 Corvette will now start at $107,830. Add the required $1,700 gas guzzler tax for the Corvette ZR1 and the new out the door price increases to $109,530, an increase of $2,910 over the 2009′s… Read the rest

How worried is Toyota that the 2010 Honda Insight might eat into sales of the 2010 Toyota Prius, just now hitting dealerships across the country? Worried enough, it appears, that the company has helpfully run the numbers to show potential Insight buyers how little money they’ll save over the long run if they buy Honda’s new 2010 dedicated ..… Read the rest

There are collections of cars all over this Country that contain outstanding examples of what we car junkies lust over. One such collection is by invitation only and is located outside of Nashville, TN. It is the private collection of Clifford Ernst. At onetime it cantained the largest number of Yenko Camaros in the World. Cliff started his collection… Read the rest

We take back everything bad we’ve ever said about the Ford Ranger. Well, okay, maybe that’s a little extreme, but we have to admit that we’re pretty impressed by the way this Ranger handled a run-in with a Piper Cherokee outside Johannesburg, South Africa. Even more incredible: everyone survived. It’s a brave new world, indeed. [News.com.au ..

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Do you crave the questionable status boost that comes with owning a supercar? Love the Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 but can’t manage its $300,000+ price tag? Well, for the low, low price of £1,500 ($2,400), you can walk away with a Swarovski crystal-studded Lambo…in your pocket. No, you won’t be able to drive it, but bling-hoarders like ..

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Jaguar, a company long known for making very beautiful, very fast cars seems to be turning its eye towards a green other than its traditional British Racing Green. Reports indicate that not only will Jag soon be building a hybrid, but they are also seriously looking at, if not already committed to building an all-electric model. And this electric… Read the rest

For a first try, the Lorinser LS460 is an excellent result. Of course, this is the first Lexus Lorinser has tuned, but it’s by no means their first project. Typically tied up with Teutonic hardware, the Mercedes specialists at Lorinser decided to do something different this time. And it’s surprisingly attractive, which says a lot for Lorinser, given the… Read the rest

Driving under the influence of booze and/or dope is an awful, dangerous thing. However, we’re not entirely sure about the Pima County Sheriff’s Department’s plan to embed deputies at fast-food joints so they can arrest slurring drivers. And we’re even less sure about the project’s name: Operation Would U Like Fries (aka Operation WULF). ..

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Myers Motors NMG – click for high-res image gallery A registered team in the Automotive X Prize, Myers Motors has long been working on its single-seat NmG (pictured) and a much-more secret two-person NmG2 vehicle. The company’s efforts just got a financial push thanks to a quarter-million dollar investment from JumpStart Ventures investment . JumpStart’s press release announcing the… Read the rest