Toyota Dealer Awarded $7.5 Million in Damages After Rival Called Him “Taliban Toyota”

In Formula 1, the first driver you have to beat in order to prove your worth is your teammate. Likewise, in the car selling industry the fiercest competitors are dealerships that sell cars from the same brand.

There are, however, certain boundaries that cannot be crossed. Toyota, in particular, does have enough problems of its own and the last thing it needs is the company's dealers slandering each other.

Employees from Bob Tyler Toyota in Pensacola, Florida, scoffed the Iranian-born Shawn Esfahani, owner of Eastern Shore Toyota in Daphne, Alabama, by portraying him as an Islamist militant to customers.

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Valet Parking Employee…Time Struggles to Park Lamborghini LP640 Versace Roadster

If we could somehow hide the brand and type of car seen in this video, you would probably call the valet parking employee's efforts to park the vehicle in front of the entrance of the Mall of Emirates in Dubai hopelessly frustrating.

However, once you get a look of the car, it all becomes clear: the young man is apparently trying to spend as much time as he can behind the wheel of the bespoke Lamborghini Murciélago LP 640 Roadster VERSACE Edition, of which only a handful were ever made.

Wouldn't you do the same in his position? Video follows after the break.

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Chevrolet to Build New Trailblazer SUV from 2012 Colorado, will Debut in Dubai

The product news just keeps dropping in from General Motors' Chevrolet division this week.

After the announcements on the 2013 Colorado pickup truck, the Camaro ZL1 Convertible, the EN-V project and the Spark EV, Chevrolet revealed today that it will also introduce the all-new, 2013 TrailBlazer midsize SUV at the upcoming Dubai International Motor Show on November 10.

The General published a darkened-out teaser photograph along with a short statement saying that the 2013 Trailblazer will be based on a "new global midsize platform developed by GM do Brasil" and that sales will begin in Thailand starting in early 2012.

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Payback Time: Middle East Honda Accord Drifter Crashes, Police Steps in…

Who needs to sit and watch any of the five installments of the Fast and Furious franchise when you can enjoy all the excitement in a minute-or so-long Youtube clip?

While there's nothing new about videos showing Middle-Eastern drivers drifting or trying to drift Japanese sedans with or without shooting their guns, nor about some of them crashing their cars, what is new about the clip you're about to watch after the break is that the police got involved.

And we're not talking about a single police car but a swarm of cops who appear to be chasing the driver and/or the passengers of the white Honda Accord sedan that had previously smacked a rock on the side of the road while drifting.

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SCOOP: 2012 Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG V8 and G65 AMG V12 Caught Undisguised in Dubai

While spy shooters are searching for camouflaged prototypes of the facelifted 2012 Mercedes-Benz G-Class on the roads of Germany, the team over at "3rabacars" was fortunate enough to discover an entire garage of barely disguised examples of the upcoming AMG variants in a garage in Dubai.

From what we understand, 3rabacars took pictures of both the V8-powered G63 (or G55) AMG and the V12-powered G65 AMG. According to the poster, the G63 AMG's speedometer went up to 280km/h (174mph) while the G65 AMG's stopped at 320km/h (199mph).

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Video: Ferrari California Takes up Snow Drifting in St. Moritz

Ferrari is the last brand one would associate with anything related to driving in the snow, yet Maranello is constantly touting how fun its cars are in sub-zero temperatures and frosty conditions.

Following the recent presentation of the all-wheel drive FF shooting brake in the Italian Dolomites and the announcement of its “Pilota on Ice” U.S. driving program in Aspen, Colorado, Ferrari has released a video of the rear-wheel drive only California dancing on the snow during an event organized in St Moritz, Switzerland.

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