Video: Super Bowl XLIV Car Ad Roundup

So the Saints won the Super Bowl sticking it up Payton Manning’s bum.

Non-football gearheads could settle for all the car ads in the biggest night of TV.

Here’s our round-up.

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Formula 1: Michael Schumacher Confirms Return

Happy new year, folks! We’re back from our holiday hiatus. So there’s quite a lot of catching up to do.

One of the biggest news over our time off – Michael Schumacher will indeed be back in top-flight motorsport competition as he confirmed that he will be racing for Mercedes GP (formerly Brawn GP) starting next season. He even plans to stay on until 2012.

The seven-time champion will be reuniting with Ross Brawn. The partnership had been credited as one of the reasons for Schumacher’s continued success through his stints in Benetton and Ferrari.

And if that’s not enough bombshells regarding the news, The Maestro wants another title. So that would probably even worry, Mercedes GP’s first driver, Nico Rosberg. And everyone else in the field for that matter.

Schumacher teased a return in the 2009 season as a stand-in for the injured Felipe Massa but Schumacher’s return was marred by his own injuries.

Video: Kick-ass Bumblebee Camaro Costume

These days, dressing up as Dracula or a mummy or a werewolf for Halloween has become too passe. Dressing up as anyone from the summer blockbuster movies are now the de facto standard. And check out this costume lifted from the Transformers movie – a Bumblebee costume that actually “transforms” to the shape of a Camaro. Pretty damn nifty.

Video: Best Drift Ever?

If drifting’s the game, the Japanese are still undoubtedly part of the, if not the, best player’s around. Forget about Ken Block’s drifts through hangar doors. The Japanese were the ones who actually made it a phenomenon.

Well, sure Fast and the Furious capitalized on the darned thing but the street racing and downhill drifting tradition has long been there.

Anyway, check out this here video from a Japanese drift contest featuring M. Kawabata doing a reverse entry drift. Driving a Nissan S13 (240SX), tt seemed that the car’s tail kicked out way too much that it’s bound to spin but Kawabata-san caught the slide with an opposite lock, powered through, and held on to it. Amazing!

Tesla Roadster, VW Touareg and Toyota Prius Pile Up

Over at our sister blog AutoJab, this is what we’d call a true WTF! Moment. Over here, this is still a tragedy.

Consider this for a Danish pile up – a VW Touareg SUV, a Toyota Prius and a Tesla Roadster. Reports have it that the Tesla was behind the Touareg at a red traffic light when a Prius rear-ended the Tesla sending it straight underneath the VW.

Word from Tesla has it that it was the Toureg’s fault but by the looks of it, it’s the Prius that caused this gruesome scene.

Just check out the picture of the carnage. Twisted metal and all. How bout that? The car dubbed to be fit for pansies just wrecked a couple of cars.

As always, we just hope everyone involved in the accident’s okay. But whoever’s guilty must pay.

Source: Autopia
Image Credit: John Nuttall

Nissan Intent on Building Land Glider Concept

Good old wisdom says that some ideas fly. Some don’t but you won’t know unless you’ve tried. In today’s world though, it’s not as simple as that. In the auto industry, there’s always a heck of a lot of factors to consider before a car’s put to production.

As for Nissan, they have an idea with the Land Glider concept and they’re pretty keen on actually building the radical one-seater electric vehicle.

The Land Glider draws from the electric underpinnings of the Leaf. The car is only 43 inches wide and the car tilts 17 degrees when cornering to help it compensate for its narrowness.

In a world still characterized by people’s need for cargo space, leg room and passenger seating, the Land Glider would definitely cater to a very specific market, the profitability of which would remain questionable but Nissan believes that the market is growing and the company can wait.