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Drag Race: McLaren MP4-12C vs Porsche 911 Turbo S
Drag Race: McLaren MP4-12C vs Porsche 911 Turbo S

29 Apr 2013, 07:14 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / For most people, a Porsche 911 is an overpriced VW Beetle, a car with the engine in the wrong place. Meanwhile, the McLaren is akin to god among humans, a racing car with road tires. Not true! Po...

 
Nissan GT-R Races Jet Fighter and Wins
Nissan GT-R Races Jet Fighter and Wins

17 Apr 2013, 16:57 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Is the new Nissan GT-R capable of defeating a 22,000 HP jet fighter aircraft in a drag race? Believe it or not, it is! At least as long as both the plane and the vehicle keep their wheels on the gro...

 
Drag Race: Tesla Model S vs Dodge Viper
Drag Race: Tesla Model S vs Dodge Viper

11 Apr 2013, 10:05 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / In case you haven't heard of the Tesla Model S yet, it's the geekiest car on the planet. They are making it in California and is definitely not your typical car, more like an iPhone with w...

 
Shelby GT350 vs Peel P50 is the Weirdest Drag Race Ever
Shelby GT350 vs Peel P50 is the Weirdest Drag Race Ever

19 Feb 2013, 13:33 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Taking a 1966 Shelby GT350 to the drag strip was not out of the ordinary 40 years ago, and we might still see some of them trying the quarter-mile somewhere in the US. Trying to do the same thing...

 
Real Life Test: BMW F13 M6 vs Nissan GT-R
Real Life Test: BMW F13 M6 vs Nissan GT-R

12 Feb 2013, 08:23 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Now, we know what you may think. By the videos that have been going around, the M6 stands no chance in the face of the GT-R. It's not without reason that the GT-R has been called the 'Supe...

 
Tesla Model S - World's Fastest Production EV
Tesla Model S - World's Fastest Production EV

29 Jan 2013, 10:05 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The stats of the Tesla Model S never cease to amaze us, and the car keeps wowing everybody who sees and drives it. It`s got a great body shape, which looks good and clean and is also very aerodynami...

 
Traxxas Slash RC Truck IS Faster Than a CTS-V
Traxxas Slash RC Truck IS Faster Than a CTS-V

28 Jan 2013, 15:45 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Conventional logic dictates that real men drive real cars, but there are some exceptions. The CTS-V Wagon is one of the fastest cars with a big boot on this planet, but even its supercharged V8 is n...

 
Tesla Model S Beats Viper on Drag Strip
Tesla Model S Beats Viper on Drag Strip

28 Jan 2013, 15:35 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / If you needed even more proof that the Tesla Model S is properly quick, by any standards, we highly recommend you check out the video above. The car was recently put up against a previous-generation...

 
Chevrolet Camaro Loses Wheel During Drag Race
Chevrolet Camaro Loses Wheel During Drag Race

30 Nov 2012, 12:00 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Whenever you modify your car, and take its power output up, considerably more than stock, it is best to start looking at improving other areas of the car as well. Brakes, wheels, tires, suspension, ...

 
Nissan Skyline Gets Humiliated by Lada Samara in Russia
Nissan Skyline Gets Humiliated by Lada Samara in Russia

6 Nov 2012, 14:41 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Of all the strange drag races we’ve seen, this one is quite unusual. It involves a Lada Samara (VAZ 2109), which races an older Nissan Skyline, and wins, surprisingly! No real details on this ...

 
2012 SEMA: Toyota Sequoia Family Dragster <span>· Live Photos</span>
2012 SEMA: Toyota Sequoia Family Dragster · Live Photos

5 Nov 2012, 14:38 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Nothing looks more out of place than a parachute strapped to the back of what used to be an SUV, but that’s exactly what Antron Brown has done with a Toyota Sequoia SUV, which we saw at the SE...

 
Tesla Model S Shows Muscles Against BMW M5 F10
Tesla Model S Shows Muscles Against BMW M5 F10

10 Oct 2012, 08:42 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / We know that the Tesla Model S is a very quick car - one of the quickest cars in its class, that is. Exactly the same description could be used for the new BMW M5, and the two cars are actually very...

 
Turbocharged BMW 3-Series E30 Humiliates Ferrari 458
Turbocharged BMW 3-Series E30 Humiliates Ferrari 458

6 Oct 2012, 10:30 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea /  The advent of professional car tuning has really made the automotive world a much more interesting one. Now, you can make pretty much any car go as fast, or faster than the latest Ferrari, for...

 
1,400 Hp GT-R by Switzer Performance Does Quarter in Under 9 Seconds
1,400 Hp GT-R by Switzer Performance Does Quarter in Under 9 Seconds

19 Sep 2012, 11:20 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / In the world of drag racing, a ‘sub 10-second car’ is what everybody who still wants to keep things street-legal is aiming for. However, some people like to go even more extreme, and so ...

 
Cadillac CTS-V Wagon vs Challenger SRT-8 vs C63 AMG
Cadillac CTS-V Wagon vs Challenger SRT-8 vs C63 AMG

21 Aug 2012, 08:25 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Say what you will about American cars, but they do have character by the buckets and they really are fast in a straight line. A couple of real musclecars made their way from their US factories to th...

 
Unlim 500: America and Germany Battle in Russia
Unlim 500: America and Germany Battle in Russia

20 Aug 2012, 08:55 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Who makes the fastest cars for going in a straight line. Most likely it’s America, since they practically invented the sport, but of course Europe has put a new spin on things at the Moscow Mi...

 
Moscow Unlim 500 - Smiling Girls, Awesome Cars
Moscow Unlim 500 - Smiling Girls, Awesome Cars

16 Aug 2012, 13:32 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / You have to take your hat off for what the Russians have done at the Moscow Mile. Here you have a drag strip that’s not a quarter-mile long, but a full mile. One of the few places in Europe wh...

 
Audi R8 V10 vs Ferrari California vs Mustang
Audi R8 V10 vs Ferrari California vs Mustang

14 Aug 2012, 13:06 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / We have the last video from the Unlim 500+ class drag races of the Moscow Mile, the place where Russians swap vodka for high octane gasoline to answer our straight-line speed dilemmas. This time,...

 
Chevrolet COPO Camaro Runs 8s Quarter Mile
Chevrolet COPO Camaro Runs 8s Quarter Mile

14 Aug 2012, 09:51 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The Chevrolet COPO Camaro is definitely one of those cars that manages to tear up the drag strip even in stock form. The proof lies in the adjacent video, which shows a COPO Camaro running a quarter...

 
Hennessey Pits Lamborghini Aventador Against Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster
Hennessey Pits Lamborghini Aventador Against Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster

13 Aug 2012, 09:41 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / John Hennessey, the owner of the US tuner with the same designation, certainly has a sense of humor. We did know that, but the man recently offered us another sample of his humor. Hennessey recently...