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In this episode, the Top Gear crew come up with an ingenious solution to convert combine harvesters into a snow plows at a flick of a switch. Clarkson drives the newest revision of the BMW M3, with the competition package. Not to be biased Clarkson then drives the Audi RS5 and see how it compares to the M3. Torrents for the episode can be found on Final Gear.

Superbowl XLV wrapped up yesterday with the Green Bay packers taking home the championship against the Pittsburgh Steelers. If you haven’t heard about the Superbowl it is the final championship game played in the National Football League in the USA. The Superbowl is easily the most popular/most-watched event on American television and is sometimes considered an American holiday. Due to its popularity,, commercial airtime is limited and extremely expensive. Because of the limited airtime and high cost, companies often focus on creating short memorable commercials. I’ve rounded up what I thought were the best car related commercials, so everyone could enjoy them. Videos after the jump.

I’ve seen this car’s journey from start to finish while working at Garage Works of an on for 5 years and now it’s time for this car to find it’s new owner. It originally started as a champagne coloured car, but slowly it was modified with a Hamann lip and dropped on 22″ rims. This car had always been one of our focal pieces at the shop, it had most of our products installed on it and it was an eye catcher. The biggest change is when we wrapped it in flat black vinyl, the changes were jaw dropping. Instead of a tame luxury coupe with big wheels, it transformed into a menacing angel eyed coupe with big wheels. This car definitely put Garage Works on the map, but unfortunately it was time to let go – the owner has put it up for sale on Avant Garde Motorsports. Luckily I was commissioned to take the photos used on Avant Garde.

Now even your kids can have their own BMW with this M3 GT2 toy car. Unlike the real thing, this version can be powered by a pedal or an electric motor. Don’t expect too much speed from the latter, as the top speed is a measly 2.5 km/h. Bigger picture after the jump.

Sometimes owning a car can be down right frustrating, especially when things get bad. You really get to know your car when you have to get down and dirty to fix issues that are bound to come up. This BMW owner however got really angry trying to boost his car and decided to vent on VWVortex, creating a very funny thread describing his ordeal getting to his battery. Quote of the post after the jump.

Source: VW Vortex

Will Roegge, the “damn, he’s good” cinematographer is at it again. Looks like Will has been commissioned by the Need for Speed team to create a promotional video for their FIA GT3 entry, the BMW Z4 (which, by the way looks smokin). The video doesn’t contain too much action but consider it a teaser for things to come.

Source: Will Roegge, Speedhunters

Check out this BMW Z4 created entirely out of brick and mortar! Whoever created this thing is very talented, not only did they create the exterior, they also recreated the interior in detail and added windows. This unusual car was spotted in the art district of Beijing, China.

Source: Axis Of Oversteer

BMW has unveiled its’ latest “art car” to the public, using the BMW M3 GT2 as a blank canvas Jeff Koons has created an interesting piece of art. The design features bands of different colours creating a motion blur effect, the weird looking crumbs represent debris and the 2 rings on the back of the car represent the super sonic speed of the car. Overall the car looks great starting at the front but quickly turns into a mess when you start moving to the back! This is BMW’s 17th art car, you can check out the previous art cars here.

After a bit of research I found more info about the artist, Jeff who has a very interesting past: check out this NSFW article on Jaloponik.

This project car started off with a 1986 BMW 328 shell, RB26DET engine and a $4000 budget. Like most project cars, the budget wasn’t set in stone and problems arose. Luckily the owner of the car documented nearly every process of the build, spanning 147 pages. The owner started building it in 2006 and the car still get’s updated regularly. View the build here.

While contemplating whether or not to find a part time job while some paper work was being processed for my business, I send a text to David from Garage Works to see if he had any positions open. Luckily he had an opening for some general help and some other work (more on that later). On the first day back the Garage Works crew were headed down to the Edmonton Garrison for a press conference that we were attending, so we brought down two cars and what two great cars they were. Pictures after the jump.