After dominating the Japanese Touring Car Championship, the R32-chassis GT-R set its sights on the Australian Touring Car Championship in 1990. At the time, the Ford Sierra Cosworth was the reigning king of the series.
However, the R32 was quick to dominate in Australia as well, leading to a number of media outlets giving the Japanese sports car its iconic “Godzilla” nickname.
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Of the number of classes in Thailand’s Super Series is the Super Pickup class, which commonly features Japanese small trucks like the Nissan Navara and the Toyota Hilux (both currently unavailable in the U.S.).
Ford is looking to change that up, however, by entering a factory-backed Ranger Raptor—the first of its kind in the series.
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For the most part, engines with a “V” configuration are built with an even number of cylinders, most commonly eight or six. Volkswagen, on the other hand, decided to toss that convention aside when it built its VR5 engine.
Based on the VR6, the VR5 is, essentially, a narrow, 15-degree-angle, five-cylinder V engine. This unique configuration also gives the engine a unique 1-2-4-5-3 firing order, demonstrated in the video above.
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Even though most Jeep Trackhawks will be used for getting into shenanigans in parking lots and on back roads, it’s good to know at least one person is using one to tear up the race circuit.
What’s the biggest truck/SUV/not-a-car you’ve seen getting thrown around the track?
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Keiichi Tsuchiya may be best known for his drifting prowess, but don’t let that fool you into thinking that he can’t hold his own in wheel-to-wheel racing.
Here he is showing off some fancy footwork at the Tsukuba Circuit in Shimotsuma, Japan.
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For a short time, Volvo offered a Yamaha-designed V8 in its S80 and the XC90. In both cases, the engine was mounted transversely and capable of a little more than 300 horsepower.
As it turns out, all it takes is a less restrictive exhaust to make a Swedish luxo-barge sound like a roaring muscle car.
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The Trabant may not sound like an ideal candidate for stage rally, but it does have a few things going for it, like its low weight and simple two-stroke engine. At any rate, it’s fun to see the East German people’s car sliding and jumping like the best of them.
What’s the most unusual car you have seen—or even driven—at a rally event?
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You may have seen vortex generators before (you know, that row of uprights fins attached to the roof of cars like the Mitsubishi Evo), but you may not know what they do—besides improving the aerodynamic performance of a car in some way.
Here is a video that explains what exactly vortex generators are, and even how specifically they improve a car’s aerodynamics.
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The Pikes Peak International Hillclimb may be known for the number of highly modified race machines vying to be the fastest up the iconic mountain, but few can say they have done it behind the wheel of a semi-truck.
Enter Banks Power Systems, an aftermarket performance shop specializing in diesel engines. In what may be one of the best ways to show off just how capable its aftermarket parts are, the company built a 1000-plus-horsepower turbo- and supercharged semi-truck to conquer Pikes Peak.
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Rust—or “nature’s weight reduction,” some readers call it—is a problem for any vehicle, no matter what kind or how old it is.
To ensure that a car has a fighting chance against the elements, manufacturers send their cars through a series of punishing tests to evaluate what does and does not survive.
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