Sports Cars

Born To Run

Bugatti Burrito Run: What's a $2.5 Million Car Doing in a Taco Bell Drive-Thru?

New Times Takes a $2.5 Million Bugatti Veyron Vitesse for a Spin (and a Burrito)

"Have you ever wrecked one of these?" I ask as our burnt-orange Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Vitesse bursts onto the Julia Tuttle Causeway. Butch Leitzinger shakes his head. The mild-mannered man is Bugatti's official driver, but a better title would be "pilot." With a top speed of 260 mph, the Veyron ... More >>

10 Awesome Cars That Used To Belong to Drug Dealers You Can Buy at Auction Today

U.S. Marshals are holding an auction out in Opa-locka today of cars seized from various convicted drug dealers through out South Florida. About 50 vehicles are up for grabs, including antiques, muscles cars, and Italian sports cars. Riptide has browsed through the inventory and picked our 10 favorit ... More >>

Check and Turn

ING Miami Marathon Runners Will Wear Stephen Gamson's Pop Art Around Their Necks

​If the depleted bodies of ING Miami Marathon finishers haven't resorted to feeding on their eye muscles for fuel reserves during the 26.2 miles (or 13.1 for the half) of the race, they'll be greeted with an exciting sight at the finish line. The medal for this year's tenth anniversary race on Jan ... More >>

Trina at Mansion September 22

Tesla and Laurence Gartel Collaborate on Art Car That Doesn't Suck

​In a nice break from Britto-mobiles and Stephen Gamson Lambos, electric car makers Tesla have unveiled a car collaboration with an artist that doesn't offend our sensibilities. They commissioned painter Laurence Gartel to design a costume wrap for their Roadster model.

DJ Irie: Life in the Fast Lane

Riptide Takes Half a Million Dollars in Cars for a Spin

Add 150,000 miles, a few accidents, and some bird poop and you have my real-life car.I am probably the least qualified exotic car reviewer in the world.

Video: Kat Stacks Gets Slapped Publicly, Again, By Young Maserati Henchwomen

​At this point, the video clips from infamous hip-hop escort Kat Stacks are just getting straight-up depressing. (Click here, here, and here to catch up on the latest major chapters of her saga, which include a poisoning attempt at a Burger King, and an attempted public beat-down by two men at a c ... More >>

Apparently Scott Storch is Not Using Los Angeles Public Transportation

You can take the expensive vehicles away from the flash-addicted former mega-producer, but you can't... take the flash-addicted former mega-producer away from the expensive vehicles? Something like that. Sunrise kid Scott Storch lost his mansion, pawned his yacht, and had his exotic car collection- ... More >>

Scott Storch raked in hip-hop millions and then snorted his way to ruin

Hot Rod Blacktop

Lamborghini's Caffé Corsa Cruises Into Gulfstream Park

Photo by Lee Klein​Tonino Lamborghini, whose father Ferruccio brought us that dream of a sports car, has opened Tonino Lamborghini's Caffé Corsa at the new Village at Gulfstream Park in Hallendale. Italian-born executive chef Paolo Del Papa, besides having the best name of any Italian chef in tow ... More >>

Race the Sun

Air Platinum Club owner Mickael Cohen under siege from creditors and business associates

Sacre Bleu! A High-Flying Frenchman Is Accused of Owing Beaucoup Bucks

Is this racist?​Mickael Cohen is a 36-year-old self-professed millionaire from France who wears linen suits and looks like a Lothario version of Jon Lovitz. In July, he showed off a Gulfstream jet, a Rolls Royce, a Lamborghini, an Aston Martin, an 80-foot yacht, and a Sunny Isles condo that, ... More >>

Drive Me to the Moon

Hybrids Finally Get Sexy

courtesy of FiskerTesla Motors, the California Automotive start up thats only car is a electronic roadster, promised that they'd have a showroom in Miami by the end of March. Hasn't happened yet, but they swear they're working on it. Seems competition in the eco-friendly roadster market is heating u ... More >>

Zoom-a-Zoom-Zoom Around the Track

Recession Special

A SoBe condo development offers a free Lamborghini with every apartment. Riptide goes undercover.

Classy SoBe Developers Offer a Free Lamborghini with Every Condo

Be Green if You've Got The Green

Blessed by Ferrari

Start Me Up

You don’t need switches for this ride

Rallye, Ho!

Local speed racers, start your engines

We Like the Cars

Fashionable Fundraising

Behind the Wheel

Letters from the Issue of March 16, 2006

"It's time to clean house. Doesn't Miami deserve better?"

Various Artists

Kreucht & Fleucht: Mixed and Complied by Dominik Eulberg (Mischwald)

Missy Elliott featuring Ciara and Fatman Scoop

"Lose Control" (Atlantic)

Queens of the Stone Age

Lullabies to Paralyze Interscope

Worship Me

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Cast of Characters

Friends in Low Places

The feds suspect that Tony Martin, Miami native and NFL star, helped his childhood pal launder drug proceeds

King of the Soundboard

Mack Emerman founded Criteria Recording Studios, made a fortune, lost it all, then lost his mind. Now he's back from the dead and ready to work.