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Don't be fooled by the cute heart stickers on the side of this jet black Lexus IS300. It's clearly a beast from below. Look at how it turns tire smoke into flames. More »
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We don't know if competitive moose wrangling is a thing, but if it were, we figure that offroad tractor racing would be its motorsports equivalent. More »
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This is Butch King's '85 Chevy Blazer three-wheeling into a corner and drifting out. We could watch this all day. Click through to see the whole sliding, roaring hillclimb in person. More »
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On the cold Norwegian circuit of Vålerbanen, a featherweight Caterham R500 hunts a big boy Ferrari. It's epic. More »
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Most drivers wouldn't dream of heading out onto a snow-covered track. Andy Gülden, chief instructor of the Nürburgring Driving Academy, saw the frosted Nürburgring Grand Prix Circuit as an opportunity for ridiculous quantities of oversteer. More »
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When your country is blanketed in snow, what are you going to do? Garage up your old hot rod and let it hibernate for half the year? Not this hardy Swede, who slides his '34 Ford through a snow track like it was a rally car. More »
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This is the Arosa hillclimb, 78 corners stretched along five miles of the Swiss Alps. It winds up to nearly 6,000 feet above sea level, lined with trees and stone walls and lit up by a vintage single seater charging through the bends. More »
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These two F355 spiders both have custom exhausts. Listen to their V8s scream through the mountains of Northern England's Peak District, wailing past traffic on icy, wet roads. More »
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It's called hagwalah and nine times out of ten you've seen it in grainy cell phone video shot from the side of a Saudi highway, but now it's the high-def backdrop of M.I.A.'s surprisingly car-centric video, shot in the Middle East. More »
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Burning cars, rusty cars, cars teetering on the edge of destruction gloriously pushed over the edge: these are the participants in New Zealand backyard derby racing. More »
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The car is an '89 740 Turbo. No V8 swap, it's just a middle class family hauler with over 310,000 miles on the dash. Watch it slide through the snow in rear-drive perfection. More »
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Joao Barbosa finished ninth overall at the Rolex 24 over the weekend, piloting the third fastest Corvette prototype. Judging by the screams, tears and flailing arms of his wife, he's definitely fast enough. More »
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It's just a couple of bros, a lot of snow and a Subaru with an Audi. Drifting happens. Warning: some NSFW language More »
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This one-off rally car built by an English farmer is the ugliest race car we've ever seen, but damn does it sound good. More »
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It's time to watch some grade-A HD hoonage of when bored Oregonians find themselves in the same muddy lot as a junker Honda Accord. They get some firewood, and then they go redneck car jumping. More »
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How come nobody told us that there are 2,000 horsepower 4X4 dragsters built on tractor frames racing on snow upstate RIGHT NOW? We need to see that frame flex in person, and we have to hear that blown V8 for ourselves. More »
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If you're wondering why car nuts love the snow, this is why. We all dream of drifting through deserted roads, engine singing with the rear wheels spinning. This Alfa Romeo 75 Twin Spark looks like a perfect winter companion. More »
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This 1980s-era Toyota HiAce proves that you don't have to be a trust fund asshole with a Dodge Charger to do burnouts. An old rear-drive van will do fine. More »
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Two absolutely gnarly-sounding rally replicas took to a back lot in Spokane, WA to settle the score: who can get more sideways? We think there's a clear winner, but it has nothing to do with slip angle. More »
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It's a beater Volvo 240 wagon that's had a V8 heart transplant and is now serving duty as a sideways monster. Needless to say, we love it. More »
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We have been spoiled by monster trucks our whole lives, so we think that driving over another car is easy. Actually, doing it yourself is a serious challenge, but all the more rewarding for it. Watch as a 4X4 parks on top of a car. More »
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The BMW M3 CSL doesn't do drift days; it lets its tail hang out whenever and wherever it pleases. Last August, a CSL opted to go slightly sideways of the racing line at the legendary Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Belgium. More »
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When the Mitsubishi Magna dug a wheel and nearly rolled, we realized we had a new favorite sport: paddock bashing. There's a Ford ute, that Mitsu sedan, a flatbed that also nearly rolls, lots of booze and even more carnage. Warning: NSFW language. More »
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One of the greatest automotive films is Claude Lelouch's C'etait un Rendezvous, a nine-minute high-speed run through the streets of Paris ending with the hero getting the girl. French rally driver Jean Ragnotti paid tribute with his own drive through Paris, only with a slightly different ending. More »
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There's wild oversteer, brutal crashes, NASCAR-grade drafting, and it all comes from pint-sized European econoboxes. This is the 1981 European Championship of the Renault R5 Turbo Cup. They're tiny, they're adorable, and yet they're also these fire breathing mid-engined monsters. Watch them tear each other to pieces. More »
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The VW Caddy was basically a Seat Ibiza compact car (not sold in the US of A) with a van shell smushed onto its back. It was cheap to design, cheap to build, and great for small businesses. Flying, as it turns out, wasn't its forte. More »
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With all the new cars being revealed at the Detroit Auto Show, we have to wonder just how much better these fresh faces are than their classic car ancestors. What better way to find out than with a rally battle? Ford Fiesta, meet your granddad, a 1980 Ford Escort Mk. 2. More »
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This is why we live in the best time for driving. The roads are restricted, gas is expensive and cars are becoming numbing transportation pods, but you can buy a BMW E30 or an Alfa GTV6 for peanuts and go tear up twisting country roads whenever you have a free weekend. More »
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No farm equipment company ever designed a tractor for drifting, but with a drunk hoon at the wheel, this Czech-built Zetor 25K handles the job fairly well. More »
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The Swedes, having crushed all of their old drift cars with tanks, are now using them to go sideways on the ice. How do you say "hoonage" in Swedish? More »
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Colin McRae was one of the greatest rally drivers to have ever lived. The Ford Escort Mk. II was one of the greatest rally cars to have ever raced. Put them together on the most famous stage in Ireland and you get nothing short of sheer brilliance. More »
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This Duratec-powered Westfield takes on a course through Tripolis airport with 1950s Formula One-grade oversteer. Who needs Fangio when we've got this guy? More »
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Just look at that sexy engine working away on this 1906 Darracq grand prix car prowling around Australia's Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit. That is some hot valve-on-combustion-chamber action. I think I might need to take a cold shower. More »
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The death of the Ford Crown Victoria was one of the most important car stories of 2011, and we choose to remember the 32-year-old Panther platform with this video of the Ford's sister car, the Mercury Grand Marquis, taking to the track. More »
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Much as we respect today's crop of four-wheel-drive, turbocharged, high-tech rally cars, there's something that's missing. That something is a massive V8 in a full-caged muscle car charging sideways through a forest. More »
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Our resident racer Robb Holland keeps some pretty interesting company, so when he said he had video of a young woman hooning a Lamborghini we said "gimme gimme gimme." More »
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Here we see Peter "King of the Mountain" Brock as he manages to give a comprehensive run-down of how to take a lap of Australia's infamous Mount Panorama Circuit. Periodically he takes a break to, you know, laps some other cars and make his way up the field of one of the toughest endurance races in the world. More »
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This is last weekend's Burnout Mayhem 2011, where the Australians have shown the world how a burnout is done. It's not just the smoke crowds want. You've got to go straight to flaming carnage to make a real burnout. More »
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We all know that deep down, every wheeled vehicle dreams it could fly. Try as they might, gravity always brings them back down again. Today we watch as a semi truck launches itself with great futility into the side of a schoolbus. More »
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This video shows us a forest rally stage in Poland, where a Civic tried to free itself from the earthly shackles of gravity. Watch as the laws of physics and the never-ending growth of the woods reclaim the poor Icarus Honda. More »
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