Earlier we posted some of our favorite garages from the Design Driver Maserati and explained the contest. The contest is now over and they have selected a great West Los Angeles home with a unique garage designed overlooking Los Angeles. Holger Schubert the winner designed the garage with two main objectives, “to create a pure and restrained minimalist environment that allows one to focus on the car as a piece of art and to create the ultimate experience for the driver to arrive at home.”

The garage is an addition to a 1953 ranch style home in the hills of Los Angeles. Access to the garage comes from a driveway seperate of the main entrance of the home. This 1,200 square foot space has place for the Maserati, plasma television, couch, built in wall book shelve, storage, a small kitchen, and to top it off a library.

To find out more about the Winning Garage watch this video:

http://vimeo.com/5760019

1. Who are you?

Scott Jared Oshry, born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. I have my BS in Automobile design and I love everything car. My number one hobby is restoring vintage Ferrari’s and second is car rallies.

2. What was your motivation to enter the Gumball 3000?

Being a lover of car rally’s there is no other rally in the world I would rather do than Gumball when it comes to new cars. For vintage it is the mille miglia which I hope to do one day but to do so I need the proper Ferrari which I do not own yet, but will soon. Gumball is a way of life!

3. What other cars do you have in your stable?

1960 Ferrari 250 GTE #2169 (pre-production and Paris car show car for the world wide launch of the GTE)

1968 Ferrari 250 Series II Cabriolet #1891

1967 206 Dino #222

2006 Ferrari F430

1992 Land Rover Defender

2006 Rolls Royce Phantom

4. What was your most memorable moment from the 2009 rally?

This is an impossible question to answer, I would say just being on the road driving!

5. What modifications are done to your Ferrari?

Exhaust, straight pipes, lowered and spaced out, multiple paint options to many to list.

6. How did your Ferrari hold up across the United States?

No issues after all it is a Ferrari. 20K miles on this car and no issues ever.

7. What equipment/electronics did you utilize on your rally?

Valentine 1

8. What was your favorite car on the rally (outside of yours)?

Maserati S, Steve’s car.

9. What stop did you enjoy the most on the rally?

Ritz Carlton eating a steak in the lobby bar drinking Manhattans after a 13 hour drive.

10. Do you have any plans to run the 2010 Gumball?

Working on trying to make it now, I have a bit of a scheduling issue.

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The 2009 Gold Rush Rally started in San Francisco and finished up in Las Vegas this year. They took 50 cars over a span of 800 miles to complete this mini rally. Above is a preview video running almost three minutes covering some of the great machines in the rally including the guys who went as far to wrap their cars in gold.

Maserati has put out a hunt for the best design driven garages out there today. Who has the most exciting architecture for their machines is the question Maserati wanted the end all answer to. Starting on March 16th they took applications for the best garage and posted new entries each week. The winner is going to be picked very soon so make sure you thumb through them and see what you like. I posted my favorite three by far above here.

Check out the garages: http://www.designdriven.us/Entries.aspx?c=1

1. Who are you?
Steve Goldfield – CEO Union Home Loan

2. What was your motivation to enter the Gumball 3000?
My friend Scott Oshry kept bugging me saying that “I am Gunballl!”  so I signed up.

3. What other cars do you have in your stable?
2005 Ferrari 430 Spyder

4. What was your most memorable moment from the 2009 rally?
When I was doing 155 after entering Florida and all of a sudden a car was flying in the air on the freeway right in front of me.  It looked like it was coming at me but landed in the bushes on the side of the highway.  The guy lived!  He was a local trying to race us which was a bad idea!

5.What modifications are done to your Maserati?
None – it just sounds and runs great.

6. How did your Maserati hold up across the United States?
Had absolutely no problems and was comfortable at high speeds.

7. What equipment/electronics did you utilize on your rally?
Passport 9500 Radar Detector, walkie talkies, cell phone and loud music.

8. What was your favorite car on the rally (outside of yours)?
Gold Veyron

9. What stop did you enjoy the most on the rally?
Parading down Bourbon Street in New Orleans with the police escort – then the town.

10. Do you have any plans to run the 2010 Gumball?
Definitely!  Gumball has become a religion and I am obsessed.

Check out a complete gallery of Steve’s Maserati shot on Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles after the rally:
http://luxuryvice.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=17

Check out Steve’s Maserati in action on the Gumball 3000:
http://luxuryvice.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=10&page=5

The Gold Rush Rally just kicked off and we have a video of all the cars before they departed on the run. The rally runs from San Francisco, Los Angeles, and ends in Las Vegas. A gold wrapped Lamborghini LM002, the “Rambo Lambo” can be spotted in the mix along with an Aerial Atom. This is a well put together video without a doubt.

Check out more info on the Gold Rush Rally: http://www.goldrushrally.com/

From the passenger seat of the Bugatti you can see a quick glimpse of my favorite leg of this whole Gumball rally. A group of 10 cars including a Maserati, 2 Lamborghini’s, a Mercedes SLR, and our Bentley. It was a super fun leg and we recorded the whole thing from on board cameras. So much more footage of this leg to come very soon!

Day 1 is now complete which was a fairly small leg of 250 miles. We started at the Santa Monica Pier and made a swing through Orange County for the D1GP event. After leaving Orange County it was a straight dash up I-15 to Las Vegas, Nevada. We have some great photos of the Brabus Mercedes SL, purple Audi R8, the Bugatti’s and much much more!

Check out the full gallery: http://luxuryvice.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=10

Check out this quick clip of a Maserati, Nissan GT-R, and a Lamborghini all awaiting the full Gumball wrap!

Heavy Hitters Magazine takes us to Westlake Village for the Annual California Highway Patrol 9-11 Foundation run. Cars like a black Gumpert Apollo, Porsche Carrera GT, Maserati MC-12, and much more were in attendance for this show. Check out head editor John Jarasa as he takes you around the show.