When I introduced Car Hacks last week, I mentioned that cars can be thought of as huge rolling collections of interesting parts. This week I'm putting that idea to the test, by using some of those interesting parts to do something they were never remotely meant to do. Specifically, the parts are power seat controls,…

Danica Patrick will be a free playable character in the new Sonic racing game, Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed. Just when Robby Gordon takes the virtual world into real life, Danica jumps the other way through the wormhole.

I was able to slither into E3 this year, thanks to my friends at IndieCade, and, following all of your unconscious mindbeams, I made straight for the Forza Horizon booth. After waiting in a long, sweaty line I was finally able to try it out firsthand, and, even better, talk to the head of the studio about the game.

If you've always dreamed of being a municipal street sweeper driver but can't pass the drug test, you're in luck. Street Cleaning Simulator (for PC) has, uh, hit the streets. Gamespot reviewers compared the game's level of detail to classics such as Grand Tourismo.

Video games are the one thing that's really kept their promises from when I was a kid. We don't have jetpacks or common flying cars or pizzas-in-a-pill, but our video game evolution has been spectacular. Especially driving games.

I've been tempted to start a column on Tesla's Elon Musk that's just an ongoing list of him explaining things (for example, Elon Musk explains love). He's clearly got a fascinating mind working up there. A great example of this is him telling future Musk biographer Hannah Elliott how the dystopian video game…

We've heard rumors that Australia's epic Mount Panorama Circuit (a.k.a. Bathurst) was getting scanned for Gran Turismo 6, and now there's evidence of the scanning crew in action.

Red Bull teamed up with gaming rig maker Playseat to make their own Red Bull Racing F1 rig. You can buy it now — as long as you're willing to drop $1,500. You do know that you can buy a real, functional car for that kind of money, don't you?

Racing-game mavens who hanker for a bit of upscale American style now have one fewer reason to leave the basement: Cadillac's big-assed badass CTS-V Coupe race car will soon be available for the immersive iRacing MMO racing simulator.

Powered by an AMD Radeon HD 6870 graphics card, Chad Smith's five screen racing simulator looks like it provides almost the same thrills as the military's simulators, without requiring the military's budget.

PC racing simulator iRacing is for people who find the Forza and GranTurismo games too arcade-like. This dude's five-screen setup for a digital race at Mid-Ohio is so realistic he's wearing gloves to drive it.

We loved the original "Mario Kart." How could we not love a mash-up of our greatest 80s addiction with vehicular mayhem, all set in a multi-player environment. Now, 19 years after that original hyperactive treat, "Mario Kart 7" is set to drop like a turtle shell.

Nintendo's debuting a gamer-themed car at this year's LA Auto Show assembled by the crew at West Coast Customs. There's a 10% chance it'll be awesome and a 90% chance it'll be the typical Pimp-my-Ride nonsense.

"Guile's Theme" isn't the only thing that makes life better. So does the Super Mario Bros. theme, as evident by this video.

We saw the 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3' Jeep Wrangler when it was quietly unveiled at the Woodward Dream Cruise in August. Now we're seeing the ad that'll accompany the special edition four-wheeler — and I think both gaming and Jeep fans alike will think it's simply epic.

Turn 10 has released this trailer for the November update to Forza 4's menu of stunningly-rendered cars, featuring in-game footage of gorgeous — if predictable — selections: the Aventador, a 458 Competizione, Audi's R15, an Aston Virage, a...GMC Typhoon?

The first downloadable content pack for Gran Turismo 5 has been delayed in North America until October 25, 2011, but will include a special bonus, the company announced via Twitter earlier today.

There's a lot to look forward to in Need For Speed: The Run. They've got Porsches, an interesting plot, and, oh, did we forget to mention a completely digital Christina Hendricks? That's a lot of polygons. But doesn't it feel like something's missing?

We understand the grueling agony of not knowing how much free moolah you're getting from the reward cars you get for leveling up in Forza 4. Well suffer no more – here's a full pricing guide to all of the game's free cars.

Because racing games aren't already taking over our every waking hour, here's Thrustmaster's Ferrari F1 Wheel Integral T500. So many buttons. Do want.