TMG’s facility in Koln hides the next generation of Toyota’s motorsport greats, but also its past masters. So, so many past masters. XCAR checks out Toyota’s mouth-watering collection of cars that is tucked under a wind tunnel, including the absolutely brilliant planned Group S 222D MR-2 rally car that was cancelled after the FIA killed off Group […]
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A bit of a different BLAST FROM THE PAST this week – Kieran Roberts is a talented young bloke from Invercargill who specialises in classic motorsport art and we LOVE his work, so will be featuring it our regular BLAST FROM THE PAST, alongside Terry Marshall’s fantastic photography. This week’s BLAST comes from Baypark in […]
John Hennessey sees a car and decides, quite naturally, that it needs to go faster. His own ‘home brew’, the Hennessey Venom GT, is even faster than a Veyron. Here’s his story.
Every year before the its annual Safari event at Moab, Utah, Jeep unveils a bunch of drivable concepts to highlight its range of Jeep Performance Parts from Mopar. They are always drivable (Oversteer has even driven some!) and they are always awesome. While at least half of the concepts each year are more upgraded production […]
Mondays suck. Having to go to work, and sit in traffic to get there, is no fun after a weekend. So each week we will bring you something catchy and upbeat to make the commute a bit more bearable. This week’s Monday Kickstarter is the German porn-themed classic “Wet Rubber” from possibly New Zealand’s greatest […]
This week we bring you a sobering BLAST FROM THE PAST that reminds us all of the inherent dangers of motorsport. The place was Manfeild in October of 1976. Red Dawson was in his Chevrolet Monza battling with Frank Gardner in the Chevrolet Corvair when he had his horrific accident. Dawson was still in the car when […]
The Bentley Continental GT can come with a V8 or a W12. If you’re a 12-cylinder kinda driver you know which one to go for, but why did Bentley use a W12 over a V12? Drew from XCAR takes a look at the W12 and finds out why Bentley went with the unusual layout.
In the latest video from the talented lads at XCAR they check out the increasingly impressive Tesla Model S to see if it is the electric car we have all been waiting for!
Mondays suck. Having to go to work, and sit in traffic to get there, is no fun after a weekend. So each week we will bring you something catchy and upbeat to make the commute a bit more bearable. This Monday, your earworm is the impossibly catchy “Bills” by the brilliantly named Lunchmoney Lewis. Of […]
This week we head back to 1965 for the Matamata road race, off the start/finish straight where Rod Coppins in the legendary Zephyr Corvette leads from Bryan Innes in the 1275/93 Morris Cooper S. Thanks, as always, to Terry Marshall for the pic.
