We’re looking out for you, especially when it comes to saving you a buck or two at the pumps. Murphy Oil and Foursquare have teamed up to make your gas budget go further.

Stop into one of the 1,000 Murphy USA gas stations (you can find them in the parking lots of Walmart and Sam’s Club stores) for $2 off a $20 purchase of gas. All you need to do is check in with Foursquare. On top of that, you’ll get a free pack of Stride gum – pretty sweet!

This isn’t the first time Murphy Oil has used social media to promote themselves. Last week, the company offered a similar coupon on their Facebook page and they also have an iPhone app that helps you locate their stores.

Let us know if you take advantage of this deal and what you think of it. And save us a piece of Stride gum while you’re at it.

[Source: Kicking Tires]

It’s Monday morning and all you want to do is nurse that coffee and hope the day goes by fast. What would inspire you to get work done? How about working at a Bugatti-inspired Executive Desk? But before you put in the Staples order, you’d better get it signed off by your boss. Trust us.

You’d better be engineering some substantial deals if you’ve got the Bugatti-inspired Executive Desk. Built by Luzzo Bespoke, it will cost you around $240,000 and is inspired by the Bugatti Grand Prix cars of the ’20s and ’30s.

So what sets this desk apart from the do-it-yourselfers from IKEA? For one, it’s adorned with Bugatti’s blue-on-white-with-tan color schemes, and is outfitted with honeycomb grill drawers and a billet aluminum frame. It even comes with height adjustment drive gears modeled after the Winfield carburetor’s synchro quadrants from a Type 57.

If your boss nixes the idea, you can also go back with a request for the $64,000 version of the desk. But make sure it’s not the same day you ask for a raise.

[Source: Jalopnik]

Schools looking to improve the grades of their students should learn a lesson from Northwest ISD. The Texas high school holds an annual car giveaway with two other neighboring schools, and this year’s prize was a shiny new Chevy Camaro.

Deigned as a way to motivate students into improving their grades and attendance, students earned raffle tickets through their grades, with higher grades getting more tickets and, therefore, more chances to win.

This year’s winner was Kenzie Deaton, who will have to settle for being driven in (not driving) the American muscle car. Deaton, after all, is just 14.

The 24 runners up don’t walk away empty handed either, with each getting a Dell Streak 7 Touch Screen Tablet.

The school didn’t say if overall grades for the year had improved, but we have to think the prize is worth a few extra nights doing homework.

[Source: NBCDFW]

Toyota will never stop developing mutations of its FT-86 sports car, which will be released sometime between now and the real Rapture. Maybe.

But news from Japan indicates, finally, when we can see the officially official ultimate final production version: the Tokyo Motor Show, in December. Both Toyota and Subaru will launch versions of their joint sports car on their home turf then, which is more final a date than anything the companies have previously announced.

The production version of the FT-86 will reach America by 2012 as the Scion FR-S, and Subaru’s version will be released in the spring. Rumors that both cars will be equipped with a Phantom entertainment console are unsubstantiated.

GALLERY: Scion FR-S

[Source: Inside Line]

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After years of teasing us with concept car after tantalizing concept car, Toyota is finally set to unveil a street version of all those FR sports cars—but with one minor change: this one doesn’t have an engine.

Yep, this is a custom downhill racer built for Red Bull’s Soapbox Derby, and unlike the cardboard-ramshackle boxes I injured myself on as a kid, it actually sports a modicum of high-tech components. Concept car builder Five:Axis built a custom, CAD-designed aluminum space frame around a full TEIN suspension and Wilwood disc brakes, then draped the goofy, cute Toyota-aping bodywork on top.

The Five:Axis Toyota FR-S soapbox racer will be piloted by none other than Dai Yoshihara, drift champion and Formula D driver in the Falken Tire Nissan 240SX. The Soapbox Derby is currently being held on the 21st in Los Angeles, and will be the latest FR-S to hit the streets until the production version is finally shown in December.

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It takes a lot of guts to piss off the traffic police in Venezuela, apparently. Hang a couple people from the side of a bus, no problem. Drive erratically in a Soviet-era Lada belching blue smoke in front of the elementary school, sure. Your ride’s missing a wheel? Who cares? Why would you, when gas is 12 cents per gallon?

With gas that flows like bottled water in South America’s leading oil producer, the rights of drivers get a cushy priority—the land where driver testing is a sordid punch line, where 1970s American muscle cars weave in and out of speeding traffic at 100 miles per hour (no doubt helmed by Vin Diesel, presumably). So it finally took a speeding, overcrowded bus that was missing a wheel for Venezuelan officials to suspend the driver’s license: an historical first, and a milestone in Venezuela.

Ramon Parra, 41, had loaded his bus with more passengers than the legal limit. When police stopped him for excessive speeding, they found that one of the six rear wheels was actually shoved into the axle. ”It is important to emphasize that this is a totally new act; for the first time in Venezuela we are suspending a driving license, for 12 consecutive months,” said Luis Fernandez, national police chief.

The law to suspend licenses was only enacted in 2008, but this was the first time it had been used. The maximum suspension available is five years, and that’s only for killing someone. Glad to know that Venezuelan traffic police still have their priorities straight.

[Source: The Telegraph]

For over to a decade, Stephan Papadakis rewrote pages and pages of the drag racing record books behind the wheel of several different Hondas. Looking for a new challenge, Papadakis took to drifting in a beautiful Chargespeed widebody S2000 before dedicating his time to running a very successful race and drift program that included back-to-back Formula Drift championships with Tanner Foust behind the wheel. Now Papadakis is back behind the wheel of a Honda, but this is not a sports car, nor is it a Civic.

For the 2011 season Papadakis is competing in the Pro Lite Truck Racing series, driving a highly-modified Honda Ridgeline off-road. But in true tuner fashion, this truck doesn’t have factory V6 under the hood, but a 2.4-liter 4-cylinder – the very same motor found in Honda’s new 2012 Civic Si.

This isn’t actually Papadakis’ first try at off-road truck racing, having campaigned a KA-powered Nissan in the Lucas Offroad Series last year in the Unlimited Pro Lite 2WD class. After the experience he was hooked but decided to go back to his Honda roots with this Ridgeline.

[Source: Wrecked Magazine]

This is hardly the first time we’ve uttered words about G-Power’s BMW M3 GTS, but we all have a sense of relief now that it’s officially official – pricing and all.

For those living under a rock, the BMW M3 GTS is a high-powered and lighter weight (220-lbs lighter) M3 variant just full of race-inspired goodies including adjustable front and rear aerodynamic components, modified suspension and brakes, and a power increase to 450-hp from the factory 420-hp.  Only 150 units of the GTS would be made and it took until late last year for the first deliveries to take place.

And almost immediately upon the first batch of deliveries, three GTS cars found their way over to G-Power for more power enhancements to compete against Porsche’s 911 GT3 RS. G-Power took their “Sporty Drive” supercharger system and adapted it to the M3 GTS taking power output to an astonishing 635-hp with 465 ft-lbs of torque.

In addition to the supercharger is an all-titanium lightweight exhaust system fully equipped with 100 cpsi metal catalytic converters. G-Power also remaps the ECU to put it all in-tune. And those with extra bucks to spend, the G-Power airbox can be had in carbon fiber.

The price for all the G-Power goods for the M3 GTS? A little over $33,000 excluding tax.

GALLERY: G-Power Supercharged BMW M3 GTS

Professional wrestling legend Macho Man Randy Savage died today after apparently suffering a heart attack and crashing his 2009 Jeep Wrangler into a concrete median and then colliding with a tree in Seminole, Florida.

While Savage was wearing a seatbelt and alcohol was not a factor in the crash, Savage later succumbed to his injuries. Savage started in the WWF in 1985 and became a wrestling icon during his career.

[Source: TMZ]

The current Camry was last redesigned in 2006 and Toyota is preparing for the next model due this fall, according to WardsAuto.com.

Toyota faces fierce competition from the latest offerings out of Korea and the U.S, so the new model is of the utmost importance to the company. Toyota sold 327,084 Camrys in 2010 still leading midsize family sedans in sales, however this is the lowest sales figure for the Camry since 1994. Surprisingly, Toyota expected the Prius hybrid to outsell the Camry in future. As gas prices keep rising and families are switching from midsize sedans to compact cars, it will be interesting to see what happens to the Camry in the future.

[Source: Ward's Auto]