LivingSocial is offering a discount on the Mario Andretti Experience – drive and ride … and if Mario shows up, get him to sign your diecast. Signup at LivingSocial first (free). Because you choose a region.city, this might not show up as your “deal of the day,” – go here instead. Note while this listing [...]

Ford is now offering an official reproduction Ford Mustang frame/body for $15k. So, even if you can restore cars, you don’t need to start with a 45-year old frame but a brand spanking new metal frame! Ford says the new body shell built by California-based Dynacorn has been improved only slightly with modern welding techniques [...]

Be the first on the block to drive something completely different to drop the kids off & for a shopping trip to Costco to pick up some 50-lb jars of pickles. Not out yet … no pricing yet. But I’m guessing the grill adds $80k above another mini SUV. You can look at a 360 [...]

GT Race Cars fast … Formula 1? HOLY MOTHER OF ALL THAT IS HOLY ***** SNICKEY! For Non-American readers, here are 10 things American know slightly more about than anything about Formula 1 … 10) The Hapsburg Empire 09) Mario Andretti 08) Kippers 07) That Alsace is the fifth-smallest of the 27 regions of France [...]

So I was digging through the seven (yes, seven!) master cases at the Kmart Collector Days this weekend looking for some extra posters for some of my fav-O-rite readers on Take5 when I saw a pad with an offer and grabbed it for later reading. Turns out that Mattel is offering a FREE CARS 2 [...]

So being the primo connected guy that Metroxing is, guess who is at the CARS 2 world premiere RIGHT NOW! Yep, Metroxing scored two passes to the CARS 2 premiere in Hollywood that is going on right now!  I would grumble about having to stay at the helm of T5, staving off squirrels, but alas [...]

UPDATE 2:  Take5 Reader “Nick” was kind enough to pass along some stills that were taken from the trailer for those that didn’t see it yet or wanted a closer look at some of the modeling going on.  Tip of the hat to ya, Nick! Can you feel the Pitty fever?   I visited one [...]

It’s also the rare non-watermarked image on T5.  Unless you count the secret hologram. Tweet This Post

Holy Moley! Check out the new teaser trailer for Cars2! Can you say Summer 2011? I can’t wait! How about you? You can check it out over at GeekTyrant too (my new favorite website for all things movies).  Full disclosure – I nabbed the video and the three screen grabs from their site. Gotta give [...]

Here is a snapshot in the retail wilds of Target for the Panini sticker packs self liquidator merchandiser (which is retail geek speak for box thingy that holds stuff). The collector books are $1 and each sticker pack of eight stickers are $1 as well.  Rather than post a sequence of photos from this first [...]