Author Archives: Chad Waite

About Chad Waite

"Speed doesn't kill. Suddenly becoming stationary does." -Clarkson.

Tuning Gone Wrong: Outrageous Car, Outrageous Color

By | February 4, 2012

Written by Chance Hales Do you remember the Lexus LFA?  It is, in my opinion, one of the best looking and sounding super cars in the world.  One of the perks in ordering a $350K+ car is the option to pick whatever color you want as the Qatari Royal Family often does with their cars. [...]

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Video: 2012 Nissan GT-R vs BMW M5 w/ Poll

By | February 2, 2012

Often times the most unconventional match ups make for the most entertaining. Top Gear’s epic comparison of a Daihatsu Materia and an Ascari A10 comes to mind immediately. Autocar decided to go down the same route, albeit not quite as radical of a comparison as Top Gear did, and had the new BMW F10 M5 [...]

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What Crashing At 130 MPH Looks Like In A Cobra Kit Car

By | February 1, 2012

At times you just have to wonder how some people are still alive…

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Is This Lamborghini’s SUV?

By | January 31, 2012

Last year there was a lot of speculation that Lamborghini was moving into a new space with a SUV bearing the badge of the raging bull. Then all of that speculation was overturned when Lambo revealed that they would ditch the SUV route and give the green light to the 4-door sedan supercar they were [...]

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Spreading Your Brand Thin: BMW Will Make A 3-Series Gran Turismo

By | January 30, 2012

One of the very first posts I ever wrote on the Daily Derbi was about how I absolutely hated the BMW 5-Series GT, basically an unsporty 5-series with a sporty sounding Gran Turismo abbreviation on it’s backside. It was and still is an incredibly heavy and incredibly ugly version of easily the best full-sized sports sedan available [...]

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Can Diesel-Powered BMWs Wear An M Badge?

By | January 27, 2012

For the past several years, BMW’s purebred, performance oriented M lineup of vehicles has been loosing sight of what the M badge actually means. The M division really first established its name in the early days by turning the already good 3-series into the sensationally good M3. The same can be said with the insanely [...]

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