Welcome to Must Read, where we single out the best stories from around the automotive universe and beyond. Today we've got reports from Co.DESIGN, The Truth About Cars, and Octane.

Remember Ryan Tuerck's Off Seasons 2, just about the prettiest drift video in years? Yeah, here's the director's cut.

What's better than a massive MotorWeek comparison test? A massive MotorWeek comparison test involving high-performance cars from the early 1990s, including the Supra, RX-7 and Corvette, that's what!

Jalopnik got a hold of some juicy details on Top Gear's next season and lemme just tell ya: it's gonna be awesome. There will be yacht races, taxi races, a new reasonably priced car, and tons of supercars all premiering on June 30th.

The current E92 BMW M3's V8 engine is a glorious powerplant, a testament to all that is good and wonderful about internal combustion. But I'll always have a soft spot for the straight six in the old E46 M3. There's just something right about it.

The common stereotype of the polite, restrained midwesterner entirely breaks down in a little sliver of insanity called Lincoln, Nebraska. All the people have the reserved countenance and robustness of the God-fearing flatlander, yet that only serves to hide the real truth: These people are nuts. Is it football? is it…

Thanks to a loophole, one team built their own Porsche 917 and raced it at Le Mans in 1981, ten years after the car was effectively banned. Maison Blanche has the whole story. (H/T!)