Today only, Amazon.com is offering Need for Speed: Shift for only $40 for either PS3 or Xbox 360.

If you’ve seen our Need for Shift Shift Preview, you’ll see how good this game is. I’m playing it right now so look for a review very soon.

Get Need for Speed: Shift for only $40 for Xbox 360 or PS3.

To celebrate the milestone of 100 million copies of Need for Speed sold over the last 16 years, the team is giving anyone a 25% coupon code for any Need for Speed title, including the new and excellent NFS: Shift and NFS Nitro.

Head over to the official Need for Speed fan page on Facebook, click “Become a Fan,” then leave a comment in the comments box. You’ll be able to use the code at the EA Store, which takes the 25% off and snags you a cheap copy of the game.

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To coincide with their expansion to new models, Lexus just announced that they will be offering a 20% discount on all equipment from their F-Sport accessories line, up to $2,000 ($10,000 worth of merch) for the month of July.

The F-Sport program, in case you haven’t heard of it, is designed to allow buyers of the Lexus IS (and now the IS C and GS) to add dealer-installed sport accessories to their cars. This program has been open to IS customers since early 2008, but just recently expanded into the IS C (convertible) and GS line. For the IS, the available upgrades include better brakes, clutch, engine cover, exhaust, performance air intake, quick shifter, shock set, lowering springs set, chassis brace, sway bar set, 18- and 19-inch forged wheels, floor mats and shift knob. In other words, a poor-man’s Lexus IS-F. Continue Reading…

For the month of December, Amazon.com is offering select magazine subscriptions for very cheap, including some automotive publications.

Included in this deal are (each is for a 1-year subscription):

Car and Driver for $7

Road & Track for $7

Popular Mechanics for $7

Cycle World for $8

Motor Trend for $10

Auto Restorer for $15

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Chris sent this to me this AM … Chris, like I, has a bad Jones for racing games, racing sims, and, although I’ve never asked, I bet Chris likes flight sims and other games as well.

What is pictured here, he found on eBay. It’s an all-in-one racing deal. Not only does it have a wheel and pedal controller, but also a 42″ Panasonic Plasma TV, speakers (including a subwoofer) as well as a built in PS2 and on board computer system with PC games such as the F-1, GT Racing, Le Mans, etc.

All for the low low price of US $9,800.00. If you buy it now!

Now I can’t vouch for this system myself, never having used one. I personally own a Hyperstimulator, which is all folded away, nice and neat in my garage (since I got really pissed an Bill Gates and his PC platform and said “Screw games on the PC!!!” one day). And although the owners/posters (perhaps the builders?) claim that the Virtual GT Racing Simulator is ” … by far the best simulator available under $20K.” I’d say it’d be hard pressed to beat the hyper unit for wheel & pedal feel.

Anyway, that’d be up to you and your money.

And room. You’d need lots of room, ideally a spare room, to keep his guy in. It seems to be about 7 feet by 4 feet by 5 feet. No exact figures are given, and I bet it also weighs a ton.

C’mon, one of you guys out there has to buy this thing.

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