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Mustang and Supra Battle for 6-Second Drag Supremacy, What's Your Favorite?
Mustang and Supra Battle for 6-Second Drag Supremacy, What's Your Favorite?

15 Jan 2021, 10:41 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Given the six-second quarter-mile perspective, these clean-white representatives of the import and domestic segments are clearly not running on stock gear

 
McLaren 675LT Drag Races Lotus Exige V6 Club Racer, a New Star Is Born
McLaren 675LT Drag Races Lotus Exige V6 Club Racer, a New Star Is Born

15 Jan 2021, 09:10 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / Occasionally, we come across some weird drag racing pairings where we think the winner is more than obvious; this looks like one of those cases

 
SEAT Leon Cupra Drag Races Audi RS3, Anyone Ordered Gapperoni Pizza?
SEAT Leon Cupra Drag Races Audi RS3, Anyone Ordered Gapperoni Pizza?

13 Jan 2021, 19:52 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / Things couldn't have lined up any worse for the SEAT Leon Cupra: it's wet and it has a manual and front-wheel-drive; and an AWD dual-clutch RS3 as an opponent

 
2021 Acura TLX Drag Races Hyundai Sonata N Line, Honda Accord Ruins Their Fun
2021 Acura TLX Drag Races Hyundai Sonata N Line, Honda Accord Ruins Their Fun

13 Jan 2021, 16:33 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / As far as near-$50,000 sedans with 2.0-liter engines are concerned, the new TLX isn't that fast, but we expected that; how does the Sonata lose, though?

 
MINI JCW GP vs. Toyota GR Yaris Is a Hot Hatch Drag Race Full of Surprises
MINI JCW GP vs. Toyota GR Yaris Is a Hot Hatch Drag Race Full of Surprises

13 Jan 2021, 13:17 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The Yaris has a much better launch, but the power and faster gearbox in the JCW GP are enough to win the drag race and humiliate it in the rolling race

 
Tuned F80 BMW M3 Drag Races Cadillac CTS-V With Bolt-Ons, Somebody Gets Walked
Tuned F80 BMW M3 Drag Races Cadillac CTS-V With Bolt-Ons, Somebody Gets Walked

12 Jan 2021, 17:17 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / E85 appears to be more than enough for the F80 BMW M3 to morph into a strip-slaying machine, a better one than a bolt-on Cadillac CTS-V

 
2021 Ram TRX Street Drags Against Lambo Urus, Care to Guess the Size of the Gap?
2021 Ram TRX Street Drags Against Lambo Urus, Care to Guess the Size of the Gap?

12 Jan 2021, 09:17 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / Although it might sound silly to pit a pickup truck against an SUV in a drag race, these are certainly no ordinary representatives of the segments

 
BMW X4 M40i Drag Races Porsche Macan Turbo in Thick Fog With a Surprising Result
BMW X4 M40i Drag Races Porsche Macan Turbo in Thick Fog With a Surprising Result

12 Jan 2021, 09:03 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / It's one of those cases when the eyes tell you one thing, the numbers something else, and the funny thing is both sides are right

 
2020 Ford F-150 Coyote V8 Auto With E85 Tune Runs 11.9s Quarter-Mile at 115 MPH
2020 Ford F-150 Coyote V8 Auto With E85 Tune Runs 11.9s Quarter-Mile at 115 MPH

11 Jan 2021, 20:10 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Although there are faster trucks out there, this mildly tuned F-150 is more than impressive at the strip given the mostly stock hardware under the hood

 
Big Turbo Coyote S197 Ford Mustang Wheelies the Quarter-Mile in 7.5s at 185 MPH
Big Turbo Coyote S197 Ford Mustang Wheelies the Quarter-Mile in 7.5s at 185 MPH

11 Jan 2021, 17:16 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / 185 miles per hour and 7.5 seconds over the quarter-mile is hugely impressive for a road-legal car, let alone a Mustang, don't you think?

 
PBD Tuned 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 With 1,100 HP Runs 9.3s Quarter-Mile
PBD Tuned 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 With 1,100 HP Runs 9.3s Quarter-Mile

8 Jan 2021, 13:15 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / After a year of developing the PBD CX1100 Shelby GT500, the muscled-up pony owned by Palm Beach Dyno is now dipping into the 9.3s

 
2,100 HP Manual Toyota Supra Does Ridiculous Wheelie for One-Second 0-60 MPH
2,100 HP Manual Toyota Supra Does Ridiculous Wheelie for One-Second 0-60 MPH

8 Jan 2021, 07:11 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / It takes a brave man to handle that much power through a classic manual transmission but, most of all, it takes a very sturdy gearbox - this has both

 
2022 Audi S3 Hatchback Drag Races Old S3, the Gap Is Microscopic
2022 Audi S3 Hatchback Drag Races Old S3, the Gap Is Microscopic

7 Jan 2021, 18:41 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The new S3 is a little faster in some cases, but it sounds worse and its gearbox response is slower; overall, it doesn't look like a big step forward

 
820-HP Nissan GT-R vs. 790-HP BMW M5 Drag Race - Even Power, Uneven Result
820-HP Nissan GT-R vs. 790-HP BMW M5 Drag Race - Even Power, Uneven Result

7 Jan 2021, 12:59 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / It's a good thing both of these cars have all-wheel-drive because, in case you haven't seen the sky in the picture, it was a very wet day at the track

 
Whipple Supercharged S550 Ford Mustang GT Dips Into Low 8's, But Is It Enough?
Whipple Supercharged S550 Ford Mustang GT Dips Into Low 8's, But Is It Enough?

7 Jan 2021, 12:11 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / The competition is fierce, with the 'Stang lining up against a Fox Body sibling, Pontiac GTO, Camaro SS, and C7 Corvette for quarter-mile glory

 
Toyota GR Supra Engages in Race Against Porsche Cayman GT4, Something Seems Off
Toyota GR Supra Engages in Race Against Porsche Cayman GT4, Something Seems Off

6 Jan 2021, 09:05 UTC · By: Dragos Chitulescu / Toyota GR Supra and Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 go head to head in a quarter-mile drag race, but the GT4 seems to be experiencing clutch issues

 
“Latina Driven” Ford F-150 Shows Tuned Raptor Empowerment Against C7 and Model 3
“Latina Driven” Ford F-150 Shows Tuned Raptor Empowerment Against C7 and Model 3

4 Jan 2021, 13:42 UTC · By: Aurel Niculescu / There's also a classic Pontiac Firebird highlighted, along with an S550-generation Ford Mustang GT thrown in for good Blue Oval measure

 
F-150 Raptor Struggles Against Three-Cylinder Side-by-Side in Off-Road Drag Race
F-150 Raptor Struggles Against Three-Cylinder Side-by-Side in Off-Road Drag Race

4 Jan 2021, 08:02 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / The thing with being top of your segment for so long is that you attract all sorts of unwanted attention; in this case, from a crazy-fast side-by-side

 
Stock Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye Runs 10.2s Quarter-Mile With Drag Radials
Stock Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye Runs 10.2s Quarter-Mile With Drag Radials

3 Jan 2021, 18:24 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Taking 0.9 seconds off the manufacturer's quarter-mile estimate is pretty damn good for a set of racing wheels and drag radials

 
Tuned Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye Runs 9.2s Quarter-Mile
Tuned Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye Runs 9.2s Quarter-Mile

3 Jan 2021, 14:46 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / 9.2 seconds on the quarter-mile makes this Challenger Hellcat Redeye faster than the Demon and Super Stock in bone-stock guise