See the following link for a map of the vehicular demographics of the USA, courtesy of Jalopnik:

http://jalopnik.com/5043427/the-official-jalopnik-map-of-united-states-vehicular-douchebaggery

Notice, too, the minutiae of European cars across the country. Com’mon Europe, sell sell sell!

If you’ve ever said to yourself, “damn, I wish there was a Facebook or MySpace for people who love cars!”

Well, wait no more! Check out this week’s link:

http://www.gearsgarage.com/

For the weekend, a forum, torrent, and media site for those obsessed with automotives:
Sign up and have fun! Great source for information!

http://www.motorworld.net/

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Found this site, courtesy of Mr. Brad Cain, and had to pass it along. Wishful thinking or pornography?

Source: http://fun-shotgun.com/index.php/Cool/Three-Million-Dollar-Garage.html

The Gumball Rally has now reached international proportions. The concept is simple, take your supercar across the continent, e.g. Europe, and try not to crash or get arrested along the way.

See:
Gumball Rallyers Cited
and
Gumball Rally Porsche Driver Kills Macedonian Man
Oh, and an insider’s look too:
@ Wired

One of the more famous teams that has participated is “Team Polizei”. See them in the video below. They drive a BWM M5, decked out in Police decals, et cetera.
Have a look at the Team Polizei web site here: Gumball144.com

Video of Team Polizei/Alex Roy here:

As for us, we can’t wait to participate some future events!

While reading Forbes.com today, we stumbled upon a typo, read below to see the description for the world’s slowest car. I do believe you can move an entire house to 60 MPH faster than this!

In need of some Irish entertainment? River Dance be damned. Check out this documentary about the DeLorean Motor Company.

Ok, so more VW GTI, in case you haven’t had enough already!
This review comes from British motoring show Fifth Gear.

Anyone looking for a hard-hitting commentary this weekend may be sad to know that the only posting is this video about the world’s most insanely expensive carwash. We just HAD to share it! Enjoy.

Sorry for the poor-ish quality.

Some weekend enjoyment for you…

From Jeremy Clarkson’s “Meet the Neighbours” series.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=563403645604465846

We here at BeyondTheKM are back from holiday break and we’re readying some new commentary and analysis for 2007.

In the next days and weeks look for commentary about the German autobahn, our picks for the top cars of 2007, and prediction for the European auto industry for 2007!