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Honda NSX vs Honda CBR1000RR

Honda

What happens when you pit two of Honda’s fastest machines against each other? A damn good race. The all new NSX boasts a 3.5L twin turbo v6, putting down 581 horsepower with the assistance of [Read More…]

BMW Shatters World’s Longest Drift Record

BMW

The new BMW M5 recently set a Guinness World Record for performing the longest drift in eight hours continuously, covering a distance of 232.5 miles (374.1 km). The record was achieved by BMW Performance Driving [Read More…]

Infiniti QX50 Reveal At Private Jet Hanger

Infiniti

Recently Infiniti brought one of our favorite YouTubers, Krispy Media, out to LA for a few days to witness the release of their all-new QX50. He got to spend a few days out in LA [Read More…]

The Father Of Mazda’s Rotary Engine Dies At 95

Mazda

Legendary mechanical engineer Kenichi Yamamoto died on Dec. 20 near Tokyo at the age of 95. Yamamoto led the engineering team at Mazda that produced a commercially viable rotary engine in the 1960s – the [Read More…]

Irwindale Avoids Shut Down

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Article by: Matt Panure Source: hotrod.com In its last weeks before shutting down, Iriwindale Speedway and Event Center has received new life once again. A new lease was signed Thursday evening giving Irwindale at least two [Read More…]

OBD-II Diagnostic Code Look-Up

A DTC is made up of 5 digits. The figure below demonstrates the composition of a OBD-II Diagnostic Trouble Code. OBD-II Diagnostic Trouble Codes Explained OBD-II codes consist of a number of parts. Below is [Read More…]

Plus Sizing Wheels & Tires

Plus sizing wheels and tires is a popular trend among car enthusiasts. Adding inches to the wheel diameter for wider, low aspect ratio tires can increase your car’s performance capabilities including handling and stability. Some [Read More…]

2JZ Taco Hooks Up A Little Too Well

This 2JZ powered Toyota Tacoma is just too cool, this dude ripped the guts out of his Supra and stuffed them into a Tacoma, but for good reasons. With the Supra build getting a little [Read More…]

Ray’s 1000HP Civic Street Car

Revving to 10,800RPM this little Honda really rips! In its “race” tune the car pumps out in excess of 1000hp which, given its 1000kg weight puts it in the magic 1:1 power-to-weight ratio. Check out [Read More…]

New Ken Block Climbkhana Teaser

Toyo Tires presents Climbkhana: Pikes Peak, a new film series by World RallyX driver, Ken Block, coming September 25, 2017. The next generation of the Gymkhana series, Climbkhana features Block’s 1965 Ford Hoonicorn Mustang with [Read More…]

Turbo Teggy Dominating At SCT Topeka

Competing in Street Car Takeover’s Topeka event at Heartland Raceway Park, this thing was pulling off some deep 9 second passes on a manual transmission Acura Integra with likely north of 1,000HP. This car goes against [Read More…]

Festival of Speed Drifting Madness

Mazda

Check out all the insane drift action from the Goodwood Festival of Speed, including Chris Forsberg, Baggsy, Mad Mike Whiddett, Dean Kearney, Vaughn Gittin Jr and James Deane.

The 1500HP Monster Four-Banger Known As Thor

Motorsports

Elmer Racing is the company responsible for this absolute monster. It’s a 4 Liter, 4 Cylinder, 1500HP race engine they call, Thor. And soon, for the low, low price of just over 142,000 US dollars, [Read More...]