A reader sent us this link providing more information than we have seen yet. http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Cops-Chase-Bentley-Through-LA.html. They confirm the driver was not DJ Kahled but a business man upset about losing his business. He has also passed away confirming to these reports.
UPDATE: As of 2:24am Pacific Standard Time
Several new developments have come forward through the night with this story. Mahalo and several other sites including a local Los Angeles news source started reporting DJ Kahled took his life in this Bentley chase. Now other reports are claiming the man is unidentified and NBC local news has gone so far to claim he isn’t dead. They are saying he is at St. Joseph’s hospital which is nearby the event location.
DJ Kahled’s Myspace Page even has an official press statement that he is alive and in Miami except it’s pre dated January 29th, 2009. Not sure if this was by accident in a rush to post or what but this makes me have some doubts on this. I screen caped his Myspace blog in case it gets taken down or altered in some fashion in the near future.
We will try and keep everyone in the loop on this story but let’s also remember we are an automotive luxury website and not a news source. Some places to stay in the loop can be Mahalo.com and KTLA.
DJ Kahled from Terror Squad won 2008 DJ of the Year awards from the BET Hip Hop Awards. Tonight around 8pm he started a police chase in a white Bentley Continental Flying Spur which lead police up and down the 405 going into LA and then back to the valley. The car came to a hault at 4606 Lankershim Blvd, North Hollywood, CA right in front of North Hollywood Toyota.
The dispute was said to of started over a domestic violence call between him and his girlfriend around 8pm. Althought DJ Kahled was behind the wheel of a Bentley he never really was speeding during the incident or driving eratic in any manner.
At 12:56am on February 10th DJ Kahled according to reports committed suicide while SWAT was approaching the Bentley. Another day in Los Angeles and another police chase/encounter/death involving a Bentley. While rap moguls have recently been fighting about street racing Lamborghini’s for pink slips and getting them put under LAPD impound it seems the Bentley is the new car of crime in Los Angeles. Just a few months ago a Bentley was involved in a mysterious drive by shooting on Highway 101 in the middle of the night where police seemed to have more questions than answers. Now DJ Kahled lead cops on this chase tonight resulting in a self inflicted gun shot wound. More on this story will come if any new developments break.
Chris Brown scored a sweet Lamborghini Gallardo from Platinum Motorsports for his time in LA with Rihanna. At a $2,200/day rate the Lamborghini pictured above was all his. Well as I am sure you have heard Chris Brown was arrested on assault charges against Rihanna which change by the hour it seems. First it was with a deadly weapon then it wasn’t and now she has bite marks on her….Who really knows what happened but what we do know is TMZ is reporting this car is sitting in LAPD impound. This means Chris Brown is spending $2,200 a day until the situation gets taken care of. I am sure the guys on Melrose at Platinum Motorsports are not complaining!
This Lamborghini feud has been started too many high school students buying Soulja Boy (AKA DeAndre Cortez Way) album. He recently just purchased a balloon white 2010 Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder in cash as he claims on his Youtube video.
Towards the end of the video he calls out Lil Bow Wow and wants to race him for pink slips in his orange Lamborghini Murcielago. According to our sources Lil Bow Wow owns a 6.2L Lamborghini Murcielago which puts him at 571bhp and not the 632bph 6.5L. Soulja Boy is still short at 512hp in his Gallardo. Lil Bow Wow, a rapper from Atlanta, then took to Youtube to reply to Soulja Boy’s pink slip challenge.
Lil Bow Wow defends himself and proves he knows quite a bit about Lamborghini’s. He points out that Soulja Boy owns a “poor man’s Lambo” and his doors don’t even open the right way. Lil Bow Wow doesn’t approve of him riding with a guy in his passenger seat either because he only allows women in his Lambo. Of course next comes a response from Soulja Boy replying to Lil Bow Wow’s video. Yes, this is going to be a ton of talking and not much action we are sure but while they fight about Lamborghini’s we are going to stay on top of this one.
Soulja Boy took some time out of his busy day while shooting for a CW show called “The Game” to rebuttal Lil Bow Wow’s video. Soulja Boy first wants to point out that he thinks that Lil Bow Wow’s Lamborghini is rented. He even takes to the Internet to show some rap gossip sites claiming that the Lamborghini is rented. Soulja Boy claims he cannot race for pinks because he doesn’t have his title. However, he admits he knows nothing about the Lamborghini but he jut dropped cash on it because he’s got the money and it don’t really matter. He then tells Lil Bow Wow to not reply back to him and say anything but just show his papers.
Lil Bow Wow brings out his Georgia DMV paperwork to prove he has had that car since 2006. Then he makes fun of the Gallardo some more saying how the car is made by Audi and in the United States but his Murcielago (purchased with his AMEX black card he says) was made overseas. Hence why his doors don’t open on his “Audi.” He then goes on to accept the terms of the race claiming that he can get Lamborghini to sponsor the race and he wants it to air on Speed TV or ESPN. Lil Bow Wow does have a reason to be confident since he clearly has the faster car of the group. Just when we thought this couldn’t get even more crazy the Florida rapper Sean Kingston gets involved with a video on WorldStarHipHop.
Now Sean Kingston pulls up in a black/black Lamborghini and he wants both of them to race him for pink slips and put their Lamborghini’s on the line with his Lamborghini Gallardo coupe. So at least he doesn’t have all the extra weight from the vert but still he falls short on the performance of Lil Bow Wow’s Lamborghini Murcielago. Soulja Boy continues to stir stuff up with Lil Bow Wow on his Twitter page but didn’t reply to Sean Kingston’s challenge. We have told more videos are coming and we are going to stay on top of this till some pink slips swap hands. Clearly the new Fast and the Furious 4 commercials have had some interesting affects on the youth of America lately. Hopefully we get to see a race sooner than more Youtube videos but we doubt it!
The boxer Floyd “Money” Mayweather takes us on a tour of his car garage with like 7 random dudes standing around him for the whole video. For some reason he feels the need to put his name on the back of his cars which I somewhat find hilarious and you will see a clip of it within the video. He also uses this tour to talk smack on De La Hoya and various other people including all his haters. This video is amazing in some manner, that is for sure.
Floyd Mayweather’s Car Collection:
Maybach 62
Mercedes McLaren SLR
Rolls Royce Drophead Coupe
Limited Stretch Rolls Royce
Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder
Jay Leno takes us into the garage for a 17 minute tour of this red Porsche GT2. Jay Leno provides some of the best car reviews in the business and watching him review the Porsche GT2 made us like it even more. Jay Leno also wanted to let you know he doesn’t care that he cannot say the company name wrong so forgive him on that one! Over 500hp packed in a red Porsche with Jay Leno behind the wheel is a video you shouldn’t miss!
Yes you have been told your whole life that Imperial Stormtroopers are fictional soldiers from Star Wars. Yes, Stormtroopers are the personal army of the fictional Emperor Palpatine. All these lies the masses have told you when it looks like this is a true stormtrooper in his Lotus Speeder! The Speeder was a motorcycle without wheels in the Star Wars series that Stormtroopers used to get around quickly but it seems since then they have made some modifications courtesy of Lotus. This is just an exceptional moment of time captured by this photographer and we have to commend him for the hours of laughs we will receive from this one.
We just learned that Cristiano Ronaldo totaled his Ferrari 599 GTB in a tunnel just outside the Manchester Airport in the United Kingdom. According to the Sun the car was smashed up (as you can see above) but luckily Cristiano Ronaldo came out of the accident in good shape. The ground looks wet so perhaps he just lost control on the wet surface and smashed into the barrier. The Sun also reported they found a wheel of the car (we are assuming the driver’s front) almost 200 yards away from where the car came to a hault.
Coolspotters is an amazing website that let’s you stalk celebrities and find out what they enjoy and where to buy the products. To test it out I wanted to see who is driving my favorite car of the moment, the gorgeous Audi R8, an unassuming exotic powerhouse that looks as mean as it sounds and drives! The list of celebs Coolspotters found behind the wheel of an Audi R8 was quite impressive:
The Hollywood R8 List:
Jay Leno
Lauren Conrad
Jimmy Rollins (Philadelphia Phillies)
Hugh Grant
Seal
Robert Downey Jr.
Larry Ellison
Zac Efron
Top Gear visits the top celebrity wrecks of 2008 and Anthony Lewis (Dad of Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton) got a 5 out of 10 rating from the Top Gear mates for celebrity wreck of 2008. Some other drivers they show are Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, Eddie Griffen, and Ian Wright. I think Eddie or Anthony have to take the reward for wrecks. Maybe Eddie Griffen because A- it was no video and B- it wasn’t his Ferrari Enzo.
