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Yes, you: the guy who's been in a coma and living under a hubcap since November? You might be surprised to know that General Motors has ended its (purely platonic) relationship with Tiger...
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Reese Witherspoon Ups The Class In Her Mercedes-Benz GLKThere isn't much to say about Reese Witherspoon's choice in cars. Think about it: Nashville native Reese Witherspoon? Wearing a plaid blouse and a mid-length skirt and ballet flats and Prada shades? Toodling around Brentwood in a Mercedes-Benz GLK 350 in the photo linked below, with a blonde friend...
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Audi To Underwrite Iron Man 2 (Ferrous Boogaloo)Every celeb worth her yoga mat is driving an Audi these days, so this bit of news should come as no surprise: today at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show, Audi's VP of marketing, Scott Keogh, confirmed that the company will be a major product-placer in the upcoming Iron Man 2 film. Which means that we'll...
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Zac Efron's Audi A5: Like HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL, This Is Getting OldGreen goddess in a bottle, this is getting old: another celebrity caught cruising the streets of Los Angeles in an Audi. This time, the celebrity in question is none other than former teen heartthrob (and current 22-year-old heartthrob) Zac Efron, best known (a) for his turns in various High School...
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Yet Another Audi Q5: Now With Jennifer Garner And Child
Either Justin Timberlake is working overtime, or there's a freak fascination with Audi in Hollywoodland. We've seen countless celebs, celebutantes, and celebutards cruising the streets in various models, and now, for the second day in a row, we've spotted an LA lady climbing into an Audi A5. This...
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Christina Aguilera's Audi Driver Knows Where The Bodies Are HiddenHi, Christina Aguilera: You know, back in college, we remember going platinum blond. The fumes were terrible. The bleach took forever. After it was over, our hair felt like bubble gum that had been left in a microwave. And we think -- nay, we know -- that we suffered some brain damage. Clearly, you...
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It's official: every celebrity worth his/her swag bag is vacationing in St. Barts. Yesterday, we spotted Lindsay Lohan flashing her badonkadonk to 95% of the island's population while shopping with...
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Lindsay Lohan Cruises St. Barts In A Suzuki JimmyThere are many things to note about the photo linked below: 1) That's Lindsay Lohan. She's vacationing in St. Barts. 2) LiLo is wearing a bikini and heels the same way that other people would wear a dress and heels. Or jeans and and heels. Or a skirt and heels. Or basically anything that IS NOT A...
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2010 Celebrity Car Predictions: Yep, We're Totally PsychicIs it just us, or did 2009 completely suck? The economy tanked, automakers went bankrupt, celebrities died left and right (and not even the good ones). Ugh, midnight cannot come fast enough. Since early this morning, our crack team of auto journalists/clairvoyants has been drinking tea -- mostly...
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Scott Caan And His Best Buddy In A Vintage Ford TruckSince tomorrow will be a special CelebsAndCars entry, this is technically the last "regular" post of 2009. And although we could've easily gone with the million-dollar feud brewing among the trashy, splashy Teutel family, or the high-speed antics of the equally trashy but less splashy (as Playgirl...
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Mark Wahlberg Straddles The Line (Again) In A Bentley AzureNot so long ago, we were singing Mark Wahlberg's praises. We admired his willingness to live a quiet, boring life with his wife and kids and wished that other celebs would take notes. (Looking at you, Piven.) We thought Wahlberg's black Cadillac Escalade Hybrid summed up the guy perfectly: mostly...
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Nicole Kidman (And Her Face) Go Picnicking In An Audi A6Ladies and gentlemen, Audi has struck again: since JT came onboard, it seems like every other celebrity -- at least the real ones -- has been spotted tooling around in one Audi model or another. (For reasons yet unknown, fake celebs seem smitten with Bentleys and BMWs.) The latest example: Nicole...
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Full disclosure: we love Susan Sarandon. Without her, Rocky Horror would've been short an ingenue, and The Hunger would've been missing its key behavioral scientist/vampire lesbian. And of course,...
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Job Opening: Driver/Personal Assistant to Christina AguileraDear Personal Assistant of Christina Aguilera (aka Xtina): We have heard that it sucks to be you. Not "you" as in "you, the personal assistant of Christina Aguilera (aka Xtina)", but "you" as in "you, the personal assistant of any former Disney spokeschild". We can only imagine what you must go...
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Tila Tequila Drives A BMW 335i Under The Influence (Of Crazy Pills)Pocket-sized bisexual famewhore Tila Tequila recently announced that she's carrying her brother's child and that she's marrying girlfriend Casey Johnson, who, as it turns out, is an alleged cat burglar and heiress to the Johnson & Johnson fortune. Which means that this image of TT splayed...
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Today In Flash Mobs: Girls, Bikinis, And The Fiat 500Flash mobs have been around for decades (back in the day, they were called outlaw parties), but they've only recently been co-opted for marketing campaigns. Today's example: the surprise arrival of a dozen bikini-clad dancers and a DIY samba band on a chilly square in Amsterdam to shill the Fiat...
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Gwen Stefani's Range Rover: Open To Anything, AnyoneSee Gwen Stefani. (Behind the link, that is.) See Gwen dressed like an almost-normal person.* See Gwen load a stroller into her tastefully understated Range Rover. Load, Gwen, load! See Gwen drive away. Drive, Gwen, drive! See Gwen's rear gate still open like a big-mouthed hollaback girl frozen in...
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Elin Nordegren: Loyal To Buick, But To Tiger? Not So Much.Elin Nordegren may have kicked Tiger Woods' philandering keester to the curb, but the couple's Buick Enclave remains tucked nice and cozy in her garage. And hell, with two growing kids to schlep around in the Florida heat, can you blame her? It's a good thing she scored that ride before Buick...
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Cross-promotion is a common advertising tool. Just consider how often you've seen movies and fast-food joints team up on kids' meal toys, and you'll begin to get the picture. But although this...
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Today In Sponsorships: Shakira Scores A SEAT DealAs you might've guessed from the photo at left, Spanish automaker SEAT is underwriting Shakira's next European tour. Moreover, SEAT is planning "to enter into close collaboration with the Barefoot Foundation", which was founded by Shakira to provide education to children living in poverty. Exactly...
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Today In Politics: Justin Timberlake Is Audi's AmbassadorRemember last week when we spotted Jennifer "Coco" Lopez sliding her superstar culo into the passenger's seat of an Audi Q7? At the time we commented on the swarm of high-powered celebs who've recently been spotted in Audi rides and commended Audi on its covert marketing tactics. Of course, we were...
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Fergie & Josh Duhamel: It's A Short Walk From 'Denali' To 'Denial'You know what? We don't really care about the private lives of celebrities. As long as they're not hurting anyone or holding their spouses hostage, they can do whatever they damn well please. So Josh Duhamel's nutty stripper mistresses, Fergie's bisexual longings: none of that interests us. As far...
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Jon Gosselin Gets A Gag Order And A New RideOn the one hand, Jon Gosselin is a complete douchebag who's been kicked to the curb by his equally douchebaggy former wife (aka "Clown Car Kate"). Dude is such turnoff that TLC filed a gag order to keep him from speaking to the media. (TLC claims that Gosselin's famewhorishness, combined with his...
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Jennifer Lopez Plops Down On Big, Juicy Audi Q7We admit it: we totally laughed when Audi announced its goal of beating BMW and Mercedes-Benz in worldwide sales by 2015. But you know, if we were still the betting type (let's just say we learned our lesson), we'd probably take a very long look at those increasingly shorter odds. In recent weeks...
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