FAIL: Wannabe Lamborghini Reventon Camaro

Good God!

What you (unfortunately) see before you is actually a 1994 Chevrolet Camaro with roughly 230,000 kms on it that was poorly transformed into a Lamborghini. Not just any Lambo, but the much coveted and stupidly limited Reventon. And the worst part is, it’s for sale. Here’s the actual ad on eBay:

This incredible Rev Angel 300HP V-8 Exotic Replica Supercar was meticulously designed and handcrafted (light strong metal, not heavy fiberglass!) to resemble million dollar exotic supercars, without the costs, maintenance, repairs, insurance, etc.!!! It has a V-8 (300 HP- with the included intake plenum similar to the one pictured) LT-1 Chevy Engine with only 36,000 original miles which was replaced 95 miles ago!!! Also replaced recently (within the year) was the alternator, starter, and battery. It has a current safety inspection and emissions sticker and the title is free and clear.

This car will peal and smoke the tires from a stand still. It will virtually beat any tuner car, fiero replica, older corvette’s or so called muscle cars. The rear wheel track has been widened by 4 inches with wheel spacers to accomodate the widebody styling. The interior is a sporty stock Camaro Z-28. Side windows have been tinted with removable 20% VIS. The dash is cracked (easily fixed by a $35 dash cover) and the driver side seat bolster is torn (but can easily be fixed by some seat covers). The lights and electrical work and the A/C blows, but it needs a recharge (the heater works great).

If you want Supercar looks (attention and compliments galore!!!) in a daily driver that you can have at a tiny fraction of the cost, this is the car for you! This is the time to do it, since financial situation warrants letting it go for very much less than desired! NO RESERVE!!! The winner will take this home!

Thank you for looking and God Bless You abundantly!

Assuming you’re done laughing, one thing he…. no? You’re not done laughing? Okay, go ahead, let’ it all out.

Good now? Okay, what I was about to say was one thing he forgot to do was take the ugly Chevrolet steering wheel off. So even if he was somehow able to fool someone into thinking this was an actually Lamborghini, when they inevitably peer through the window to see its interior all they will see is the best thing GM could come up with circa 1994.

I sincerely hope this guy loses a bunch of money on this thing. It’s the only way he’ll learn.

[AutoGuide via Cardomain]

FAIL: Mercedes-Benz Concept A Breaks Down Before Reveal

Well that’s pretty embarrassing.

The folks over at Mercedes-Benz were pretty excited to officially reveal the Concept A (also known as the A-Class concept) to the media at the Shanghai Auto Show yesterday. The only problem was, the Concept A got a serious case of stage fright as it refused to start right before it was due to roll out on stage.

After a few seconds of awkwardness, it became painfully clear to the Mercedes-Benz execs that the only way to get it onto the stage was for them to push. And boy, did that ever make for a hilarious picture.

Four executives in designer suits forced to do manual labour for the first time in probably decades? Priceless.

Not having your concept completely ready for a big reveal and perpetuating stereotypes surrounding quality issues of your brand? Fail. It happens, I suppose.

Stay tooned for more details on the Concept A!

[CDNlive]

FAIL: Honda Accord Crosstour Badge Overload

Aren’t fanboys hilarious/annoying?

In this case we have a clear Honda fanboy that apparently purchased one of the ugliest models Honda makes – the Accord Crosstour. The owner proved it is possible to make it uglier by putting about a million badges on for seemingly no reason other than to brag maybe? Who knows. Luckily this embarrassment likely won’t be seen on any Canadian roads as the owner is from the States.

Everything is just out of place here. The Type-R badge, the aftermarket Honda emblem,  the “V6″ badge and even the “3.5 litre” badge is just wrong. There’s 9 badges in total on the hatch! And don’t think it’s any better up front too. There’s much of the same badging on the front grille along with red pine stripes. Seriously. Grab a barf bag and hit the jump to see a shot of the front.

Overzealous Honda fanboy: you get a huge FAIL for this one.

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FAIL: Don’t Brag About Your Car’s Speed Online While Trying to Get Out of a Speeding Ticket

Seriously, what an idiot.

Police in the Niagra Falls area nabbed a guy in a Dodge Neon SRT-4 for going 233 km/h in a 90 km/h zone. The police report also stated that he was driving that speed on bald tires no less. However, considering the guy spent $25,000 in upgrades, those tires were likely racing compound tires.

Oh yeah, if that first part didn’t sink in, let me repeat it. He spent $25,000 in upgrades. For a Neon. Yeah.

The accused motorist recently went into court trying to avoid the $3,651 fine by claiming his car was a regular Dodge Neon (aka a piece of crap) that is incapable of reaching such speeds even if he tried. However that defense didn’t go over so well when the court was presented with an ad that said motorist created selling his SRT-4. The ad detailed the $25,000 he had put into it to make it 420 horsepower capable along with a “Stage 3″ turbocharged engine, upgraded suspension and brakes.

So basically there are about 3 fails to mention here:

1) FAIL for going 233 km/h in a 90 km/h zone. That’s just plain stupid.

2) FAIL for coming up with a somewhat clever defense but then ruining it by advertising just how fast your car really is online.

3) For dumping $25,000 into a terrible car that isn’t worth anything and never will be? BIGGEST FAIL OF ALL. In case you were curious, dude is selling his piece of crap for $9,900. Yep, great investment there, douchebag.

[Niagra Falls Review]

Tire Rotation FAIL

So we all know it’s a good idea to rotate your tires every now and then, right? Well the owner of this BMW M3 (or perhaps his mechanic) obviously didn’t think it through too much when they decided to rotate his tires.

Most M3′s have a staggered wheel set up, meaning the rear tires are a different width from the front tires. Since the M3 is rear wheel drive, the rear tires are wider than the front. Typically with a staggered set up, you would rotate the rear tires from side to side and the front tires from side to side. This concept obviously escaped the M3 driver (or perhaps he didn’t notice what his mechanic had done).

Still, it is pretty noticeable. There’s no need for wider front tires on a rear wheel drive car, that’s ridiculous!

For that, this M3 gets a pretty big FAIL.

[Inside Line]

How to Ruin the Looks of a Mercedes-Benz GLK

Have you ever seen a Mercedes-Benz GLK and thought to yourself, “I wonder if there’s a way to make it look ugly?”

Well RENNtech apparently has thought the same thing, so much so, that they actually decided to go ahead and do it. And boy, did they ever succeed.

They incorporated a body wrap that looks like carbon fiber, but isn’t. Then they took that standard GLK 350 and made it into a hybrid. Why, no one knows.

The concept called the GLK 350 Hybrid Pikes Peak Rally Car was actually debuted in 2008 at the SEMA auto show. But RENNtech has revisited the concept three years later to take it on a tour of America.

So if you’re down south and are trying to find ways to make yourself vomit, be sure to look for the RENNtech GLK on its tour.

[RENNtech]

How Far Would You Go For A Free Mini Cooper?

Andreas Mueller apparently would go pretty far.

Mueller, originally from Germany, heard about a contest a local radio station was having where the grand prize would be a free Mini Cooper. The way to win the contest was to do the most craziest stunt in order to get the car.

Mueller ended up winning the contest because he came up with the idea to tattoo the word “Mini” on his gentleman part. Seriously.

“Once I’m sitting in the car, it won’t matter anymore. The pain will be gone and it’ll be alright”, said Mueller.

Obviously that is the most tremendously painful area to get a tattoo (as evidenced by his facial expression in the picture), but did Mueller consider how this might affect his um, love life? I mean he’d constantly have to explain to his dates that the word ‘mini’ isn’t referring to his genitals but rather his car. And then he’d have to explain why he did it. And then he’d have to explain to the waiter that it’ll just be a table for one because the girl would surely run away at that point.

I don’t think I could do it. I mean, it’s just a regular Cooper, not even a Cooper S!

Would you tattoo the word Mini on your genitals to get a free Cooper?

[Anorak]

Ignorant Car Owner + Lack of Common Sense = FAIL

There was a study that came out a while back which said that 80% of BMW 1-series owners believed that their car was front wheel drive. Being a 128i owner myself, studies like that embarrass the crap out of me. In fact, I didn’t even believe the study. I didn’t think that many people could be so clueless and ignorant about their car…until I saw this video.

Judging by the accent of the guy recording and the fact that this is a 1-series hatchback, this video was likely taken somewhere in the U.K. Watch as the woman tries to clear the snow away from the front wheels of her rear wheel drive car. SMH. I guess that study has some merit.

I don’t understand how so many people spend so much money on something they no nothing about or don’t even bother to familiarize themselves with.

But that’s not even the worse part. Keep watching as she then leaves the car in gear then GETS OUT OF THE CAR. Obviously the 1-series then drove into the house of the guy that’s been recording her the whole time.

Darwin award winner for sure.

[Automotive Addicts]

FAIL: How About A Rape Yellow Bugatti?

If you’ve ever gone and and built a car that you can’t afford from an online configurator, you’re not alone. You can usually spec the car out exactly to your liking down to the colour.

A colour choice you’ve likely never seen before is Rape Yellow. That’s right, Rape Yellow is actually an available colour from Bugatti.

Um. What?

If you’re offended by this, don’t blame Bugatti because it actually is a real colour, they didn’t make it up. There’s a yellow flower called Brassica Napus in Latin. When translated into English, it’s actually called the Rape. The flower is useful as it gets repressed into oil for everyday use.

Since “rape oil” doesn’t quite have a positive connotation attached to it, we obviously just call it canola oil. But Bugatti, it seems, is quite happy to keep the colour as its original name, despite the controversial nature of it.

If you’ve ever been raped, chances are you probably won’t opt for a colour that reminds you of the unfortunate event every time you drive your car, so Bugatti might be well advised to change the name. It’s just common sense, and for that you get a FAIL, Bugatti.

Canola Yellow doesn’t sound quite as bad.

[Bugatti]

FAIL: Mitsubishi EVO Rolls Off Dyno

Man that  really sucks.

Check out the video above where some guys put an EVO VII on a dyno machine for testing and it went terribly wrong.

For some reason, the EVO started to tug on the restraint. The driver of the car instinctively starts to brake when the car starts to veer off the dyno, but that probably just made it worse.

He was okay after the incedent, but man that sucks for the owner.

Oh yeah, FAIL.

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FAIL: GM Re-names Aveo to…Sonic

Oh GM. Why do you make it so easy for me to make fun of you?

GM has just announced that its next generation Aveo will now be called the “Sonic”. And guess what? It’s just called the Sonic for us North Americans. It’ll still be called the Aveo worldwide.Yup, because North Americans are the only ones stupid enough to think Sonic is a cool name for a car. Not that Aveo was ever a cool name, but it was certainly better than Sonic.

Chris Perry, U.S VP of Marketing had the unfortunate job of explaining why:

“The Sonic represents a new beginning for Chevrolet in the small car segment and so we felt it was time to give it a new name. The new car is roomy, stylish and fun to drive, and Sonic is a youthful, energetic name that helps convey what this vehicle is about.”

Yes, that’s right GM. Why not name your new subcompact after a video game character that isn’t even around anymore and that only 12 year old boys know about. Good, good.

I know they probably weren’t referring to Sonic the Hedgehog when they came up with this name, but that’s what most people think of. I think it’s time for some sort of Alphanumeric system at GM. They’re clearly running out of names.

If you wanna check out with the “Sonic” is gonna look like, hit the jump for a pic.

[General Motors]

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This Isn’t Necessary, Hyundai

What a clown!

Hyundai’s slogan may be “smart is in” but this is pretty effing stupid.

In an effort to drum up publicity for the upcoming next generation Elantra, Hyundai’s PR department thought it would be clever to stage a spy shot revealing just the front fender of the compact sedan. They then posted it to their twitter account.

Umm, all that says to me is that no one cares about the next generation Elantra to bother taking genuine spy shots. Why does no one care? Because Hyundai has already released an effing picture of the new Elantra completely undisguised in the spring! Click here to see it.

We already know what it’s gonna look like, Hyundai. You already showed the entire world at the Beijing Auto Show.  In the meantime, I suggest giving your PR department a significant pay cut for wasting everyone’s time.

FAIL.

[Hyundai via Twitter]

WARNING: Have a Barf Bag Ready Before Looking At The Photo Below

WTF?

SEMA is currently underway and there have been some interesting cars this year. If you don’t know, SEMA stands for Specialty Equipment Market Association and basically what they do is show off visually modded cars that only a Fast & Furious douchebag would be interested in. This year, there seems to be an unusual amount of cars present at the show that would otherwise never be modded. For instance there is a stretch Toyota Sienna minivan limo, a stretched Scion XB limo as well as this vomit inducing Toyota Prius.

The Prius is called the C&A Custom Concept and thank God it’s just a concept. It’s trying way to hard to have a Lamborghini Reventon style front end. The Reventon front facia really only works on a Lamborghini.

On top of that, the C&A  has a carbon fiber body kit and the body is dropped by a ridiculous 4 inches! And believe it or not, those are actually 18 inch forged aluminum wheels. Except they look way smaller thanks to the stupidly massive front and rear overhangs.

But don’t worry, as if it couldn’t get any tackier, the C&A comes with an interior COMPLETELY made of suede. Just because if you’re gonna do it, you might as go all out ugly.

As you guessed, there have been no modifications under the hood, so what we are essentially left with is a normal non powerful Prius that probably handles decently and looks like a piece of Darth Vader’s stool.

DO NOT WANT.

[Toyota]

Turns Out ‘E-Tron’ is a Crappy Name, Audi

The all-electric E-tron is expected to make production in the next few years, promising to be an efficient alternative to those who value performance but have a concern for the environment and how much they spend on gas. It is said to have similar performance of the Audi R8 but uses absolutely no gas. Cool idea.

What wasn’t a cool idea though, was naming it E-tron. While the name sounds cool and futuristic, obviously the whole world doesn’t speak English. Which means that different words have different meanings in cultures across the world. Audi is finding that out the hard way.

Turns out in French Etron is slang for feces. Obviously having a car named after excrement is not ideal. It would give way to way too many puns such as “that car is a piece of shit.” This isn’t the first time Audi has screwed up names. Remember when they insensitively created the Green Police? The same guy responsible for that in Audi’s research department must’ve come up with the Etrons name.

This also isn’t the first time a new car’s name meant something hilariously different in another language. GM came to the startling realization that the name of its top selling sedan, the LaCrosee, means rather crudely to masturbate in la Francais Quebecois. Luckily for GM, they came to this realization before the LaCross went on sale and named it the Allure in our market. Since then, GM has decided that LaCrosse will be the name of here and Canada too. They apparently don’t care about Quebec culture or references anymore.

[Green Car Ports]

FAIL: BMW X5′s Aren’t Meant to Barrel Roll

I never watched the Dukes of Hazzard, despite them having a car with a somehow sweet name on the show (the General Lee). However I know enough about the show to know that the General Lee was asked time and time again to perform spectacular stunts, not least of which is the barrel roll.

Now, the Dukes of Hazzard undoubtedly have a huge following and I’m not sure if the show ever had any “don’t try this at home” warnings, but it I’m guessing with the type of people that watched the show, a warning wouldn’t have mattered anyway.

Case in point, an owner of a BMW X5 decided to try the classic barrel roll stunt. I’m not sure how much the General Lee weighed, but it was surely less than the over five tonne X5. Plus, I’m sure each stunt required quite an intricate set up. These facts of common sense obviously escaped the X5 owner. The lack of reaction from the people recording the stunt would seem to indicate that they saw this coming too.

Watch his unfortunate results in the video above.

[Youtube]