If you can’t find a stock Lamborghini that fits you and you’d rather not put one under the tuner’s knife, what are you to do? Lamborghini has just what you’re looking for: their Ad Personam personalization program. Now those with the means can have their own tailor-made, one-off Lamborghini straight from the dealership.

Three examples of the program’s handiwork will be on display at the Detroit Auto Show, which starts January 13. The Gallardo Spyder on display will be shown in matte brown paint, the interior covered in brown Alcantara and several shades of custom leather. The matte finish is the first to be available on a Lamborghini besides the Reventón.

The Murcielago LP640 coupe and roadster pair on show will be painted in Blu Cepheus, a light shade intended to reflect a natural appearance reminiscent of polar ice - and it doesn’t hurt that it’s at the height of fashion. The same custom-leather treatment can be found in the cockpits of both cars, although in the roadster, the tone is more natural and untreated, to keep with the car’s overall image.

Whatever you choose to do with your Lamborghini, you can - the logo of the raging bull wants its customers to “think of the impossible” when designing their custom cars. No word on the cost of such free-thinking personalization, but as the saying goes, if you have to ask…

Source: Lamborghini’s Ad Personam: personalize this car

John Neff
Chicago Auto Show, Spy Photos, Coupes, Sports/GTs, Dodge

click above image for more spy shots of the production Dodge Challenger

Seems like one when modern day muscle car gets caught a spy photographer, they all get shot. We've already shown you new spy shots of the 2010 Ford Mustang GT today, and now we bring you two new shots (the first two in the gallery below) of the production Dodge Challenger that's been caught testing out in public. Dodge is saving the production Challenger's debut until February when it will be unveiled at the 2008 Chicago Auto Show, but as we've seen from official teaser shots, don't expect a car much different than the Challenger with which we all fell in love. This test vehicle was reportedly sporting a HEMI V8, so it's probably an SRT8 model, the same kind that will go on sale this year before the rest of the Challenger line-up arrives next year.

[Source: Brenda Priddy & Co.]

Gallery: 2009 Dodge Challenger - spy shots

Source: Spy Shots: Production 2008 Dodge Challenger caught, too

Ralph Kalal
Filed in: Toyota | Nextel Cup

Joe Gibbs is in the football Hall of Fame, has a Super Bowl ring, and a NASCAR Winston Cup. And, he’s now out as the president and coach of the Washington Redskins.
 
So, does that mean that Gibbs will start paying more attention to the race team? Or does he leave his son, J.D., in the place where he put him: in charge?
 
Gibbs’ strength has always been considered to be his people skills, his ability to make a team cohesive. This past year, many believe that it was Gibbs’ unique capabilities in dealing with the many personalities on a team that made it possible for the Redskins to weather the loss of star Sean Taylor.
 
One ESPN commentator, David Newton, is weighing in. According to Newton, Gibbs’ NASCAR team “needs its Coach Joe.”
 
Well, maybe Joe’s smarter than that.
 
Joe put J.D. in charge of the team when Gibbs returned to football. At the time, it seemed apparent that the move caused some internal disruption in the team, and that J.D. hadn’t been expecting to take on the level of responsibility being thrust upon him, at least not that soon. But, he had it handed to him, and he accepted it.
 
Implicit in the notion that the NASCAR team “needs its coach Joe” is the premise that Joe Gibbs would be better at running the team than his son. 
 
That’s probably a false premise.
 
A great deal changed in NASCAR while Joe Gibbs was trying for a football comeback. The Car of Tomorrow arrived. The Chase was modified, again. The Hendrick team ascended to clear supremacy over everyone else. And, of course, the team itself switched to Toyota.
 
There is a lesson to be learned from Gibb’s own efforts to regain his form with the Redskins. Gibbs improved the Redskins, but he did not make them a winning team. Following his resignation, the talk was all about his legacy, whether he had diminished his previous Hall of Fame performance as Washington’s coach when it went to the Super Bowl. 
 
But, the real question should have been, could another coach have done a better job? The answer is, “maybe.” Whether it is an NFL team or a NASCAR team, the person running the team can make only so much difference. Ultimately, that person must depend on others to execute the plan.
 
Making that plan a winning plan requires knowledge and expertise that comes only from daily immersion in the sport. That may not be enough, but it is certainly a necessity. It is that level of immersion in NASCAR which Joe Gibbs now lacks.
 
Joe Gibbs Racing may or may not be good enough to cope with the challenges that it faces this year. But, the only person who has what it takes in background and current experience to address those challenges is J.D. Gibbs, the man who’s been in charge of dealing with them ever since Joe went back to the Redskins.
 
If Joe Gibbs is half the manager he’s said to be, he knows that already.

Source:ESPN

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