Since the dawn of time, humanity has yearned for the answer to one crucial question: what's faster down an icy Colorado mountain, a snowboard or a McLaren 12C Spider?

I've known Brett Doar since we built a LeMons racer together back in 2008. Since then Brett has made his career out of similarly suspicious engineering, especially making large, rambling Rube Goldberg machines.

Did you know Hyundai was racing rally cars in North America? Maybe you did, maybe you didn't. But they were, and they've decided to call it quits.

This past weekend, Rhys Millen set the fastest ever time up Pikes Peak at 9:46. That is seriously quick for tackling a nearly 13 mile uphill course full of blind corners.

Lately, I've been seeing this commercial for the new Mercedes-Benz C-Class an awful lot, and it's kind of been haunting me. And not just because the disembodied voice of Don Draper is telling me, calmly but firmly, how awesome the new car is. There's something profoundly disturbing about this ad, and I want to get to…

The best part of golf is the golf carts. Everyone knows this, but Rhys Millen knows that even the greatest part of the sport can be improved upon. Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present the rally car golf cart.

Garishly outfitted cars in brightly-colored, energy drink logo-festooned booths teeming with booth babes, brahs in flat bills and old men in auto-themed Hawaiian shirts inhaling a fragrance of waterless car wash and hepatitis. Yup, it's the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) annual show in Las Vegas. The one …

Red Bull managed to convince the city of Atlanta to close off Peachtree Street downtown so that Rhys Millen and Ryan Tuerck could stage a mini-drift challenge around the office buildings. Sure beats standing in line at Chop't.

Kiwi racing champion Rod Millen does everything better than you. Your old Toyota has 130 horsepower. His old Toyota has 800. Your driveway's a cracked asphalt mess. His driveway's a mile-long, race-paved dream that mimics the best race tracks in the world.

The Hyundai Veloster Rally Car, unveiled this morning, is about 20 pounds of awesome in a ten-pound bag. Click through the gallery for an up-close look at all that makes the racing Veloster such a darling.