One Lap of the Web: Living-room Lambos, a zombie Cayenne and the curse of Merkur
Tue, 11 Jun 2013
We spend a lot of time on the Internet -- pretty much whenever we're not driving, writing about or working on cars. Since there's more out there than we'd ever be able to cover, here's our daily digest of car stuff on the Web you may not otherwise have heard about.
-- The rich really are different than you and me ... unless you live in a Singapore high-rise with an elevator that parks your Lamborghini in your living room, as the Daily Mail reports.
-- Speaking of exotics and the common man, Carbuzz offers up an interesting gallery of Ferraris, all of which happen to be fake. Some are good and some are bad. ... Scratch that, they're all bad.
-- You can thank "The Walking Dead" and similar works in the ambulatory-deceased genre for this Porsche Cayenne customized by Rogue Engineering. It's designed to survive a doomsday scenario up to and including a zombie apocalypse, and was commissioned by Jack Daniels Porsche. Seriously ... we couldn't make this stuff up. PS: We'll crush your Cayenne with our 6x6 G-Wagen.
-- Kurt Ernst over at Hemmings has been doing some really nice historical writeups lately, and one of his latest covers the Merkur XR4Ti bastard-child of the '80s. Ironically, it contains the line, "U.S. consumers didn't know what to make of the XR4Ti or its parent brand, Merkur. Neither name resonated with U.S. buyers." Replace the make/model with "MKZ" and "Lincoln" and the parallels are apparent.
-- Finally for today, with rumors of a TVR rebirth swirling, remind yourself of the brand's accomplishments via this Imgur gallery of a Canadian TVR event. With bonus first-gen Buick Riviera in what appears to be Bronze Mist! Hmmm, TVR 2500 with a Nailhead V8 ...
By Autoweek editors