Today’s Nice Price or Crack Pipe Jetta is set up for street and track, and is claimed to done double duty in both SCCA Time Trials and as a daily driver. That makes it a great car to let you run what’cha brung, but is it price equally accommodating?

Tiff Needell. My wife's Scion xB. More details soon.

In 1980, a tiny French team's boss sat into the car he designed himself and pushed the pedal to the floor as long as he could so his co-driver could finish the 24 Hours Of Le Mans two laps ahead of Porsche's turbocharged 908/80 with Jacky Ickx and Reinhold Joest behind its wheel. Ickx (first) announced his retirement…

While this race car wearing Alpine's traditional livery is powered by Nissan's VK45 V8 engine, everything else about it is very French. Hopefully, that won't mean that it will surrender before the end of the 24th hour.

Not long ago, Jeff Bloch (AKA "Speedycop") and his possey rolled into CMP. As is usual for Jeff, utter ridiculous-ness is the name of the game. The "press ban" of his plane build from the last few months is finally lifted, and the first photos are flyin' in from the racetrack - literally!

It takes a very special breed of machines to succeed on a racetrack after satisfying the public as a road car. I'm not talking about silhouette car nonsense here, but factory cars that can be turned to eleven thanks to their brilliant engineering. You know, like the McLaren F1 and all the others of that era.

So Watkins Glen put's on this event every year in September, The SVRA Vintage Gran Prix. I never heard anything about it till last year, and it immediately sparked my intrest. Vintage Race cars? Racing? Sign me up for that.

Henry Ford famously said that "auto racing began 5 minutes after the second car was built". While he was probably right, it definitely started before he build his second Quadricycle in 1898, featuring chain drive and a whopping 20 mph top speed.

As many of you already know, I'm a big fan of 3D printing, especially for its potential for use for cars and car parts. So when reader Kevin sent us this article about "the world's first 3D printed racecar" I was very, and possibly visibly, interested.

There's been a number of rocket-powered cars, and while they're all pretty fun, they're basically only good for one thing: going fast, in a straight line.