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Wild Toyota-Powered smart fortwo Needs a Wheelie-Bar
Wild Toyota-Powered smart fortwo Needs a Wheelie-Bar

28 May 2014, 13:15 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Thought power is everything in a drag race? Well it's only part of the equation. You can have like 12,000 horsepower and still loose the race if your car weighs as much as a locomotive. In drag...

 
1991 Holden Commodore Makes Mincemeat Of Mercedes-Benz A45 AMG
1991 Holden Commodore Makes Mincemeat Of Mercedes-Benz A45 AMG

22 May 2014, 17:33 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Most of you would imagine the seventh generation Holden Commodore as a simple and reliable point A to point B car. However, don't get fooled by the sleeper look of the one featured in the video...

 
This Bentley Continental GT Has 3,000 HP
This Bentley Continental GT Has 3,000 HP

21 May 2014, 12:15 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The Bentley Continental GT isn’t exactly a stranger to the world of customization and yet tuners usually ignore the mechanical side, focusing on upgrading the visual side of the coupe, as well...

 
World's Fastest CLK 63 AMG Black Series Breaks Record <span>· Video</span>
World's Fastest CLK 63 AMG Black Series Breaks Record · Video

19 May 2014, 12:58 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / When Mercedes-Benz let AMG go all-out on the CLK 63 AMG Black Series, it was one of the first great-handling road cars to ever come out of Affalterbach, as all previous ones were mostly about straig...

 
How Not to Race a Ferrari 458 Speciale against a 458 Spider
How Not to Race a Ferrari 458 Speciale against a 458 Spider

15 May 2014, 16:28 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / We really couldn’t find a precise purpose for the Ferrari 458 Speciale during our review, but we can be sure of one thing - this thing will leave a standard 458 trailing in its wake. Well, as ...

 
Tuned Nissan Maxima Races Porsche 911 Turbo at The Drag Strip
Tuned Nissan Maxima Races Porsche 911 Turbo at The Drag Strip

14 May 2014, 16:28 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / In one of the most entertaining drag races we have seen all year, a latin-looking mustached man is apparently taking his highly-modified Nissan Maxima to a drag racing event and pits it against a Po...

 
CLA 45 AMG Somewhat Keeps up With an Audi R8 V8
CLA 45 AMG Somewhat Keeps up With an Audi R8 V8

12 May 2014, 18:38 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / When it was launched back in 2007, the Audi R8 V8 jumped straight into Porsche 911 territory, where it not only stayed but also did quite a lot of damage. Combined with the probably less-than-ste...

 
E 55 AMG Owns Tuned Nissan 350 Z in Epic Drag Race
E 55 AMG Owns Tuned Nissan 350 Z in Epic Drag Race

12 May 2014, 07:33 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / As a slang word, “ownage” is mostly used by teenagers who play online games, but you will hopefully excuse us when we use it to accurately describe how one of the most epic drag races we...

 
Don Garlits Pushes 2,000 HP Electric Dragster to 184 MPH
Don Garlits Pushes 2,000 HP Electric Dragster to 184 MPH

8 May 2014, 20:29 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Even though "Big Daddy" failed to accelerate past the 200 miles per hour mark, the 82-year-old racing legend managed to break a new record with his Swamp Rat 37 electric dragster. By re...

 
1,100 HP Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 Bites More than It Can Chew
1,100 HP Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 Bites More than It Can Chew

8 May 2014, 10:08 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Convincing a Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 to churn out 1,100 horsepower at the wheels sounds like pure madness... because it is. And when you’ve got such a machine at hand, the combination between...

 
Stock-Looking Evo with 700 AWHP Is One JDM Sleeper
Stock-Looking Evo with 700 AWHP Is One JDM Sleeper

7 May 2014, 12:18 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Evos have always been known as fast cars, but everybody knows that, in a straight line, they’re not actually all that quick - that massive rear wing isn’t exactly helpful in this kind of...

 
Fastest Audi Q5 in the World Pulls 12s Quarter Mile Run with Child Seat In
Fastest Audi Q5 in the World Pulls 12s Quarter Mile Run with Child Seat In

5 May 2014, 15:44 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / We may have come up with a brilliant idea - any car that goes to the drag strip should be required to include a child seats. Children love fast cars and we should make sure more and more of them get...

 
AWE Tuning Audi S5 Sets a New Quarter Mile World Record
AWE Tuning Audi S5 Sets a New Quarter Mile World Record

1 May 2014, 09:30 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / With a quarter mile time of 11.883, AWE Tuning claims that its in-house developed tuning project is the fastest Audi S5 shat hasn't been stripped down. The car was clocked at 116.49 miles per h...

 
See a Lamborghini Gallardo Lose to a Ford Falcon GT
See a Lamborghini Gallardo Lose to a Ford Falcon GT

29 Apr 2014, 07:54 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / It's not everyday that you see a modern supercar lose a drag race – even from a roll – against an old-school muscle car, especially one from the land down under. In other words, ...

 
smart fortwo From Hell Has a Big Block V8
smart fortwo From Hell Has a Big Block V8

24 Apr 2014, 18:23 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Especially in Europe, there are quite a number of ways in which you can transform a lilliputian and mildly-slow smart fortwo into one of the fastest horror shows on wheels, and we mean that in the g...

 
Watch a Twin-Turbo Gallardo Spin onto the Grass on Its Way to 220 MPH Run
Watch a Twin-Turbo Gallardo Spin onto the Grass on Its Way to 220 MPH Run

22 Apr 2014, 13:50 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Ladies and gentlemen tuners, we are here to talk about what it means to actually drive a supercar, in this case a Lamborghini Gallardo, which has had twin turbos strapped to it. For this purpose, we...

 
RENNtech E 63 AMG vs Weistec SLS AMG Black Series
RENNtech E 63 AMG vs Weistec SLS AMG Black Series

17 Apr 2014, 18:48 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Now that the Mercedes-Benz E 63 AMG only comes with 4Matic flavor in the United States, many owners of the pre-facelift model have taken their cars to respected tuners in order to keep up and even s...

 
Tuned C 63 AMG vs Tuned Ford Mustang GT V8 <span>· Video</span>
Tuned C 63 AMG vs Tuned Ford Mustang GT V8 · Video

15 Apr 2014, 17:03 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / It's not everyday that we get to watch an impromptu race between a Mercedes-Benz C 63 AMG W204 and a Ford Mustang GT, especially when both models sport engine modifications which in essence sho...

 
Twin-Turbo Symphony: Watch 10,350 RWHP Racing
Twin-Turbo Symphony: Watch 10,350 RWHP Racing

14 Apr 2014, 15:22 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Ladies and gentlemen racers, we are here to show you what happens when the big boys decided to drag race. This is exactly what happened during the recent Texas Invitational event, where the slowest ...

 
World’s Fastest Nissan GT-R Pulls 7.81s Quarter Mile
World’s Fastest Nissan GT-R Pulls 7.81s Quarter Mile

14 Apr 2014, 12:50 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / These days, if you get a good night sleep, you have all the chances of missing a new Nissan GT-R drag record. Well, we don’t know how you’ve been spending your nights recently, but the G...