---
title: "The Evening Rush for Oct. 14, 2015"
description: "Your nightly cull of automotive, gear and lifestyle news, all in one place."
date: "2015-10-14"
modified: "2015-10-14"
authors:
  - name: "Max Goldberg"
    job_title: "Associate Editor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/max-goldberg"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/497/the-evening-rush-for-oct-14-2015"
categories:
  - "News"
---

# The Evening Rush for Oct. 14, 2015

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*The Evening Rush is your daily roundup of auto, gear, and lifestyle news, all in one place. Less time searching, more time driving. Motor on.*

**Automotive**

Winfried Vahland, the 25-year Volkswagen vet slated to run the company’s new North American division, is leaving Volkswagen Group after disagreeing with the company’s direction. [More here.](<https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/15/business/international/new-volkswagen-chief-for-north-america-winfried-vahland-resigns.html?_r=0>)

[Polestar](<https://www.polestar.com/us/2015/09/09/polestar-racing-changes-name-to-become-cyan-racing/>) Cyan Racing is entering the [FIA](<https://www.fiawtcc.com>) World Touring Car Championship in 2016. Much blue cars will follow. [More here.](<https://www.media.volvocars.com/global/en-gb/media/pressreleases/168156/polestar-cyan-racing-announces-multi-year-fia-wtcc-programme8>)

Putting a Viper engine in a rear-wheel-drive pickup sounds insane. The Drive’s chief auto critic, Lawrence Ulrich, would be the first to agree. [More here.](<https://www.thedrive.com/accelerator/490/when-a-ram-truck-becomes-a-battering-ram>)

The 2016 Lexus GS F: $85k, 467hp and lots of trunk space for hauling much ass. [More here.](<https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/2016-lexus-gs-f-first-drive-review>)

Ferraris for everyone! Company plans to increase annual production by 30%. [More here.](<https://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/12/ferrari-traffic-jam-production-to-jump-30.html>)

**Gear**

Do you have a ton of tools floating around you garage with seemingly no home? Best Made Co. may have an elegant solution. [More here.](<https://www.bestmadeco.com/products/front-loading-tool-box?taxon_id=974>)

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**Best Made Co.**

Terrariums are cool, but Jared Wolfe’s Biopod microhabitat will blow any Etsy project out of the water. [More here.](<https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2099003506/worlds-first-smart-microhabitat?ref=category>)

What do a Japanese toilet seat and an American sedan have in common? The Drive’s staff writer, Ben Keeshin, would be glad to explain. [More here. ](<https://www.thedrive.com/gear-up/496/the-twofer-an-automated-toilet-seat-and-a-mostly-american-sports-sedan>)

**Lifestyle**

How the ginormous Anheuser-Busch InBev-SABMiller deal might actually benefit craft-beer fans. [More here](<https://www.businessinsider.com/ab-inbev-sabmiller-merger-effect-on-craft-beer-industry-2015-10>).

![101415\_roundup\_beer\_art.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/101415_roundup_beer_art.jpg>)
**Mario Tama/Getty Images**

Think you had a tough day at the office? Read this piece on firejumpers, and think again.[ More here.](<https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a38861/tough-jobs-hotshot-firefighter/>)

## Author
Before working at *The Drive*, Max Goldberg raced the streets of Westchester in an ambulance as a licensed Emergency Medical Technician. He has boundless enthusiasm.

### Author social links  
[Instagram](<https://instagram.com/maxems>)