Nissan’s Juke is one of the most unique and entertaining vehicles on the road. It can be had with a sprightly, 188-horsepower, turbocharged four-cylinder and this zesty powerplant jibes perfectly with the Juke’s sassy styling. Its four doors and hatchback also make for around-town practicality.

All this for a tad over a half-million bucks.

Then there are people for whom the above just isn’t enough. These people also have bottomless bank accounts. Nissan has just delivered the first example of their new Juke R. We all know Nissan make the best supercar on earth–the sub-three-seconds to 60 mph GT-R–and they’ve taken the twin-turbo, V6 engine from that beast and stuffed it into the little Juke. Nissan’s crazy engineers also transplanted upgraded brakes and they’ve massaged the body for more efficient aerodynamics.

As a result, 60 mph comes up in under three seconds (a la the GT-R) with a top speed of 170 mph. Making 545 horsepower, the Juke R’s most impressive number is the price: about $521,000.

Hey, if the ’73 Dodge Monaco was good enough for golfer Lee Trevino, surely it was good enough for the likes of you.

With a front end that looked like it ate pedestrians for breakfast and maimed ‘em for lunch, this Dodge even had an Electronic Ignition System that would start the car in all types of, um, weather.

Chevy may have had the Monte Carlo, but Dodge had the Monaco. It’s the entire principality, right?

Italian supercars love to burn up the road; this much we know. (See here, here, and here.)

This time, it’s a brand-new Ferrari 458 Italia that decided to self-immolate on a road in France. Vive la flamme!

They burn up the road, those machines from Maranello!

Read the article here, mon ami.

Here’s one of the weirdest videos in a long time. In it, the world’s fastest car, a Bugatti Veyron 16.4, driven by a dude wearing a turban, gets pulled over by a bike cop in London, England.

The car, capable of over 250 mph seems as out of place in a crowded city as, well, a dude in a turban behind the wheel of a sportscar.

Enjoy!

Seems some soccer player in Spain was tooling around the ‘ville when he saw flames in the rear-view mirror of his Ferrari.

Here’s the end result:

No, not a Renault Fuego…mi Modena esta en FUEGO!

Read the article here, amigo.

As we know, Italian cars love to burn up the road. See: here and here.

Here’s The Game with his $200,000, leather-wrapped Ferrari F430.

“Go get me some saddle soap, befo’ I bust a cap in yo’ azz, homeslice!”

Who says rappers aren’t appropriate role models for children?

The world may be in the middle of a Great Recession, but that hasn’t stopped vintage Ferrari prices from needling the stratosphere.

Recently, American Craig McCaw (who sold his telecommunications company for $11.5 billion back in ’93) bought a 50 year-old 250GTO for $35,000,000.00.

Painted “apple-green,” this one-time racer currently holds the price record for a vintage car (in a disclosed, “public” sale).

The color reminds me of my favorite sorbet.

Read the article here.

By now, we know that Lamborghinis and Ferraris are more about “show” than “go.” If they weren’t, they wouldn’t break down so much…or catch on fire as much.

Check out the post here.

Or here.

Or here.

Yessir, these are the automobiles created for the valet; for that prime parking spot in front of a nightclub or restaurant.

Which comes as no surprise that Ferrari’s latest, top-of-the-line supercar, the wagon called FF, is the latest Maranello machine to self-immolate.

This time, Ferrari’s finest chose a Polish highway to blaze-up. Check out the story here and look at that photo–things got so hot, the A-pillars melted.

There’s nothing quite like Italian BBQ.