This past weekend marked our annual Tire Rack Ultimate Track Car Challenge at Virginia International Raceway, with Brian Faessler's turbocharged Ford Mustang GT350R taking the win as 2020's Ultimate Track Car.
Now you can be a fly on the wall—or in this case, in the cockpit—during the 1:47.507 lap around VIR that secured the victory.
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Yesterday, August 6, was 86 Day, an informal holiday that celebrates Toyota's venerable AE86 Corolla (and, by extension, the FR-S, BRZ and GT 86).
So, we couldn't think of a better way to celebrate than to watch an AE86 doing what it does best: quick driving and fasting sliding at the hands of the Drift King himself, Keiichi Tsuchiya.
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This old commercial featuring the 1984 Volkswagen GTI makes the bold statement that "In Germany, people who love high-performance driving drive a Volkswagen GTI more than anything else."
Whether or not that's true, we can still appreciate seeing first-generation GTIs going sideways and launching off jumps to a sweet cover of "Little GTO."
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Why would you want to turbocharge your push mower? We're not really sure, but we can't find a convincing reason not to try.
The turbocharger in question may only "work" for a few seconds, but watching the build process is an experience unto itself.
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We had the opportunity to race a ChampCar event at Daytona the same weekend as an IMSA race, so naturally we took our budget Volkswagen Fox race car.
The Fox in its current form was fine to race in Lemons, but it needed work before it could tackle the high banks of Daytona. Namely, we needed more power.
Who better to call then the Volkswagen experts at Techtonics Tuning to help us wring more power out of the Jetta engine we swapped in?
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Sure, you could shove a turbocharger or a supercharger in that already tight engine bay, but if it's worth doing, it's almost always worth overdoing.
Take, for example, this Toyota 86 powered by BMW's S85 V10. The video description explains that even with the added heft of the V10, the car still has a weight distribution of 52/48.
Of course, if you're just here for the cool engine noises, skip ahead to 6:00. What's the biggest engine you've seen shoehorned into a car?
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A classic video showing a fleet of classic Porsches, most all of them tied together by something more than that famed crest: the color white. What would define your dream collection?
Our friends at Super 70s Sports were right: There’s just way too much to digest in the opening credits for Starsky & Hutch. And are they chasing the Lincoln or is the Lincoln chasing them?
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What's cooler than a V8-powered race car? How about a V8-powered race boat?
This is Sprint Boat Racing, a time-trial style event that features small, often V8-powered boats racing through a narrow circuit that is usually no deeper than three or four feet. And then add in the navigator.
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For the most part, letting a car sit for an extended period of time isn't ideal, but sometimes it's necessary. Case in point: this 1992 Geo Metro. Said to be wearing more than 200,000 miles on its original engine, this Geo had also been sitting for four years.
Surely, it's going to have a hard time starting up, right? Let’s go to the videotape.
It may be from 1992, but there's something to be said about the reliability of (relatively) modern cars—even when we aren't exactly nice to them.
Have you let a car sit for way too long? Did it restart when asked?
