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newVideoPlayer("/LutzDoesColbert3_gawker.flv", 506, 423,""); GM product czar and vice-chairman "Maximum" Bob Lutz took his battle for the General to The Colbert Report this evening, and he took some serious hits from the man all about the truthiness. But, despite the knocking, he managed to give a couple right back. But of all the instant classic moments of this interview, it's the point in which Lutz tells Stephen Colbert the just-revealed Chevy Volt can get you laid when we officially moved GM's #2 man from the position of "hero" up to the position of "father of our children" on our man-love chart. We won't spoil anything else — click the image up top to play the video.
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newVideoPlayer("/LutzDoesColbert3_gawker.flv", 506, 423,""); GM product czar and vice-chairman "Maximum" Bob Lutz took his battle for the General to The Colbert Report this evening, and he took some serious hits from the man all about the truthiness. Despite the knocking, he managed to give a couple right back. But of all the instant classic moments of this interview, it's the point in which Lutz tells Stephen Colbert the just-revealed Chevy Volt can get you laid when we officially moved GM's #2 man from the position of "hero" up to the position of "father of our children" on our man-love chart. We won't spoil anything else — click the image up top to play the video.
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newVideoPlayer("/VW-Gol-Commercial.flv", 494, 371,""); What do a rocket-launching black helicopter, a phalanx of black Humvees, Gisele Bundchen and Sylvester Stallone have in common? Aside from high price tags, they're all in on the pitch for the new VW Gol. No, not Golf. Gol. The made-for-Brazil Gol is built on the Polo platform and runs a 1.0 or 1.6-liter inline four, which, as you can see in this video, is more than capable of outrunning Humvees and helicopter gunships alike — all while toting John Rambo to his next Botox treatment. While all that is happening, Ms. Bündchen is making a sales pitch in Spanish. Guess V-Dub decided to blow the whole ad budget on one commercial. ( Hat tip to Michael Adams! )
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newVideoPlayer("/trans-clips-jalop.flv", 506, 423,""); Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen is filming some kind of chase scene this week on the set of Princeton University featuring the Saturn Astra we saw on set last week . These videos, caught by some intrepid students, indicate the Astra appears to be damaged, so one could suggest it's probably not a Transformer and rather the daily driver for a character other than Shia LaBeouf's. We mean, why would he want to cheat on his beloved Bumblebee? Also caught on film is a scene of Shia running around carrying books and talking on a cell phone and seemingly running from giant fake robots. You know, like every other student in the world. But if there's one car we want more than the Camaro, it's got to be the little Shelly Ward -created Pursuit GKart Camera . That go-cart-on-coke looks a lot more fun than the Astra. [ Transformers Live ]
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newVideoPlayer("Williams_Racing.flv", 506, 423,""); After Obama's victory speech last night you'd expect the pundits to discuss meaning, rhetoric and intent. Instead, NBC's Brian Williams launched into a discussion of short track racing in rural Montana. Ignore, if you can, that Brian Williams is apparently an aficionado of a form of racing that makes NASCAR look like the symphony, and try and focus on the fact that Brian Williams would "give anything" to have a focus group of those people to see how they would vote. Although we'd hoped to leave the term "NASCAR Dads" behind after last cycle, are dirt trackers this year's Evangelicals? If that's the case, how come none (neither?) of the candidates are hitting up tonight's NASCAR Prelude to the Dream race? [MSNBC]
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newVideoPlayer("RRBimmer_Jalopnik.flv", 494, 410,""); Contemporary American artist Robert Rauschenberg joined Pimp C and Janis Joplin on the list of artists from Port Arthur, Texas that we're sad to not have with us anymore. Though better known for any number of artistic accolades and pieces, we'll always remember Rauschenberg as the guy who designed the cover to Speaking in Tongues and, more importantly, the sixth BMW art car, a BMW 635 CSi. A departure from previous art cars, Rauschenberg's BMW stretched the concept of the car as a canvas by making it an actual canvas for works from Ingres, Bronzino as well as his own photographs. Additionally, this car was the first to incorporate the wheels into the design in such a strong manner. The product is both unique and thoroughly modern with an approach as timeless as the 6-series BMW itself. You can see a bit of the process in the video above, as well as Rauschenberg himself, who seems to be taking a break from...
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newVideoPlayer("AImustang_Jalop.flv", 494, 390,""); The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser. If you thought the GT500KR in the Knight Rider made-for-TV movie was a disgusting piece of product placement, you ain't seen nothin' yet. What could be worse? How about the four remaining contestants in American Idol massacring Johnny Cash's song Ring Of Fire ? What makes it extra terrible was the so-called "music video" which involved the Idols bullfighting with a Mustang which was apparently the cousin of KITT . Feel free to watch the clip with your sound turned off— we don't want to scar you. [ americanidol.com ]
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newVideoPlayer("Kobe_Aston_Jalop.flv", 463, 387,""); Say what you will about Kobe Bryant, you can't deny the guy has some serious jumping capability, or "mad hops" as they say. But can he really jump over an Aston Martin DB9 Volante? More importantly, did he actually jump over it, or was it all a slickly edited fake? We're skeptics, but what do you think? [kb24.com]
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newVideoPlayer("ironmanrunclip.flv", 475, 300,""); We believe we can fly, we believe we can touch the sky. We think about it every night and day, we want to spread our wings and fly away. We believe that like Iron Man , we can soar...and...well, like the man of iron does in this first clip of his first flight in the movie hitting theaters next month, crash the hell back down to earth into a Cobra replica . [via Gizmodo ]
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newVideoPlayer("IronMan_AudiR8_jalopnik_gawker.flv", 475, 350,""); After the big Super Bowl blitzkrieg , we all kind of knew the media marketing on Iron Man would muscle it's way beyond mere trailers, and it just has. The culprit? Audi, of course. The multi-ringed brand has spent some serious Deutsche-marks to set up a mini-site for the movie that shows off the R8, the rest of the Audi lineup, some historical background on the brand all about the Vorsprung durch Technik and about three whole seconds of all-new footage from the new movie with some Audi hand-job action spliced with it. Whatever. We're still excited about the movie and everyone already knows how excited we already are for the Audi R8. Although we'd prefer they'd have used the "Iron Man Red" Audi R8 V12 TDI Le Mans we saw live in Geneva. Full press release below the jump. galleryPost('AudiR8IronMan', 6, 'Audi R8 Is Iron Man'); „Iron Man" and Audi R8: Vorsprung...
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newVideoPlayer("Wanted_Movie_gawker.flv", 475, 250,""); We just got the following trailer for the movie Wanted in our tip box and seriously, we never knew that was something we could ask for out of life. But now that we've seen it, we're thankful to whatever deity it is one should be thankful toward for giving us this opportunity. We're also thankful for the incredible CGI necessary to power the illusion of said Dodge Viper hurtling down the streets of Random-Ass City, U.S.A., thus necessitating her use of those long and luscious legs to steer said snake-bit sex machine. Nothing more awesome than watching a beautiful woman control a phallus with her feet. Just saying.
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newVideoPlayer("HomerCadillacCTS_gawker.flv", 475, 376,""); As an auto-lover, if you were tuned in to last night's episode of the Simpsons , you weren't disappointed. The longest-running show to not jump the shark showed exactly why it hasn't. Homer's old beater-mobile got one too many dings rear-ending the back of a Pacer look-alike (with what we're assuming can only be an aftermarket airbag) and needed some time in the ol' repair shop. Homer finds himself behind the wheel of a loan-er brand-agnostic luxe-mobile with a remarkable similarity to the new Cadillac CTS. The inside jokes run freely throughout the episode's side storyline, and include what may be the funniest car-related Simpsons line since the Canyonero commercial song. To wit: "I never dreamed an American car designed in Germany assembled in Mexico with parts made in Canada could be so amazing!" We couldn't believe it either, which is why we included the clip above...
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newVideoPlayer("royletterman_jalopnik.flv", 475, 376,""); Well lookie here. That's Alex Roy -- and he's on David Letterman! And he's looking good. We mentioned a few days ago that Alex would be talking to Dave about his book ( The Driver ), and now you can watch it. Here, right now! Yep, all your amazement belongs to Jalopnik . As for the interview, it's funny, with Roy essentially admitting to what a filthy-bad high speed criminal he is. And finally, we know the act is older than most of our readers, but Paul Schafer really is the best straight man of 'em all. Enjoy!
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newVideoPlayer("WoodyPark476.flv", undefined, NaN); You know, for a man who has claimed repeatedly that he can't survive outside of New York City, Woody has a whole lot of memorable car moments in his movies. Who could forget him, Annie Hall and Max cruising out to Coney Island in Annie's droptop Bug? Or, from the same film, when Christopher Walken gives them a ride to the airport in the 911? Or when he shreds his driver's license in front of the cop after he repeatedly smashes up his rented Caddy? From Sleeper when the Bug starts up: "It's a 200-year-old Volkswagen! Wow, they really built these things, didn't they?" There was that whole thing about the mid-life crisis Porsche in Manhattan . Even the less than stellar Say Anything had that great scene with Woody smashing out taillights with a tire iron. And of course, who could forget the sequence in Deconstructing Harry when Woody shows up in the Volvo wagon at his old college to accept an honorary...
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newVideoPlayer("HoganDivorce_gawker.flv", 475, 376); Yet another twist in the Nick Hogan/Yellow Supra saga, with Mrs. Hogan (Linda Bollea) filing for a divorce from the Hulkster. You can see from the video that Hulk is a bit surprised by the divorce. While it's possible the stress of the crash and resulting litigation could be driving a wedge between them, the lawyer for the crash victim thinks the whole thing is a clever ploy to split the assets in half and make them harder to pursue. It's being reported that "if the Supra and the Viper are not registered to both parents, it could be harder to go after Mrs. Bollea individually... [T]he mother's degree of control over who used the vehicles would have to be determined." If only the Hogans were this smart about not drinking and street racing. [ Monsters & Critics ]
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