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Hail is frozen precipitation that can fall during a thunderstorm. Typically you'll find hailstones that arrive to the ground showing up no larger than a quarter of an inch in diameter. Sometimes, however, they can be a bit larger. So large, in fact, that your poor car is going to take a serious beating if it's out during such a hailstorm. This is what a bunch of folks in Colorado experienced as their vehicles were pelted with hailstones the size of golf balls dropping from the sky. The dashcam video shows a car on Colorado's Interstate 70. Large bangs are soon followed by the cracking of the...
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Lap Circuit of the Americas in a Lamborghini Huracán GT3Paul Miller Racing has been kind enough to upload this video of the number 48 Lamborghini Huracán GT3 ripping around the Circuit of the Americas. It's definitely worth the watch.There certainly are worse ways to spend two and a half minutes of your Monday. In competition form, the...
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Nio EP9 sets EV Nürburgring record with 6:45.9 blastIt’s still early days for electric cars but Nio’s EP9, powered solely by batteries and electric motors, has already outperformed the best internal combustion machines. The stunning track-only supercar on May 12 was driven around the 12.9-mile Nürburgring Nordschleife in a time of...
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The 2017 Ford Raptor merges AWD and 4WDThe 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor's off-road prowess isn't contested often and with good reason. Chevrolet thinks it has found a sweet spot with the 2017 Colorado ZR2—offering a shorter, lighter rock-crawling experience—but the Raptor remains king of the high-power off-road scene. Just ask Ken...
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Here's what a 5,000-horsepower shot of nitrous looks likeDrag strip loss got you down? There's a quick remedy for that: nitrous oxide. But how much? How does a shot of nitrous worth about 5,000 horsepower sound? That's sure to do the trick. This isn't anything like Brian O'Conner's request ("I need NOS, one of the big ones"); this is a kick in the pants...
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Rally driver avoids cliff tumble thanks to sturdy guardrailEngineers all over the world just felt a pang of near panic, but then the immediate soothing calm that comes from knowing their work matters. This time that feeling came as a result of a cliff-side guardrail doing exactly what it's designed to do. In fact, this guardrail might've been worked a bit...
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The Lamborghini Huracán Performante is the king of the Nürburgring. It currently holds the track's quickest lap time of 6:52.01, and it ousted the Porsche 918 Spyder in the process from the top spot. How did it get there? We're glad you asked. So is Jason Fenske of Engineering Explained fame. EE's latest episode explains how the Huracán Performante's active aerodynamic system helped make the record-setting lap time possible. Lamborghini calls it Aerodynamica Lamborghini Attiva, or ALA. We'll call it active aero from here on out. To begin, the front spoiler helps to either...
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Watch the 2017 Chevy Colorado ZR2 hit the trailsChevrolet says the 2017 Colorado ZR2 sits in a "segment of one," with exclusive off-road attributes and mid-size proportions to take it through the toughest, tightest trails. The brand wants to prove those claims with a new video, which shows the Colorado ZR2 taking on Badlands off-road park. With...
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This 500-horsepower Peugeot 106 is awesome, horribleThe humble Peugeot 106 makes a paltry 118 horsepower in its most vicious trim. This one makes 500, all thrashing through what began life as a stock 1.6-liter inline-4. Built to take on time attack events, the car has abandoned all of its former life as a commuter. There's a massive turbo sticking...
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Witness the largest 5th-gen Dodge Viper customer delivery everSix cars in total, all 2017 Dodge Viper ACRs with the extreme aero package. That's what made up the largest fifth-generation Dodge Viper customer delivery. The Minnesota Viper Club cashed in on the final days of the Viper's "1-of-1" program and put together a group-buy order to coordinate the...
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What happens when you run winter tires in the summer?By this point, as we enter the middle of May, most drivers who use soft-compound winter tires have likely switched them out for a set of all-season rubber, or even some higher-performance summer-only tires. However, what happens if you keep those winter tires on your car and run them in warm...
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Take a ride in the Porsche 911 GT1 down a public streetThere's something sublime about seeing a race car on the street. It's like catching a glimpse of a coyote in downtown Los Angeles or an XR400 in a lecture hall. There's something perfectly insubordinate about it. You may know the Porsche 911 GT1 as the the car that Porsche raced at Le Mans in the...
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If you simply can't imagine leaving your car alone in a parking garage—or any sort of personal garage—here is your solution. It's an expensive one, but here it is, nonetheless. The Porsche Design tower in Miami, Florida houses an elevator made specifically for cars, meaning owners can bring their cars up to their apartments with them. We can't make this stuff up. Owners drive into the area and a scanner reads the RFID tag attached to the vehicle. The elevator then automatically scoops the car up hassle free, and the driver is sent up to the floor of their apartment unit. In the...
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Watch a 2017 Porsche 919 Hybrid LMP1 blast its way around SpaIf you ever wanted a feel for what it’s like lapping Belgium’s Spa in a top-level endurance racer, then sit down and watch this video in its entirety. It’s filmed from the cockpit of the number 2 2017 Porsche 919 Hybrid LMP1 race car with Porsche factory driver Earl Bamber behind...
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Wild Toyota Land Cruiser hits 230.02 mphToyota’s Land Cruiser is one of the most capable vehicles for going off-road. Toyota, however, has built one that’s right at home on a race track. Called the Land Speed Cruiser, the wild SUV was first shown at the 2016 SEMA show, and last week it was driven to a top speed of 230.02...
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Listen to the 950-hp LaFerrari Aperta idle, then accelerateA total of just 209 Ferrara LaFerrari Aperta supercars will be built. If you're not up on your exotic car lingo, the Aperta is the open-top version of the LaFerrari. So that means we're dealing with a hyper exotic Italian rocket that employs both gasoline and electricity to generate 950 horsepower...
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Ford Focus RS challenges Mustang Shelby GT350 at the dragstripPlace your bets, ladies and gents. What will it be? The turbocharged, 4-cylinder, all-wheel-drive, Ford Focus RS pushing 350 horsepower, or the Ford Mustang Shelby GT350 with 526 hp from a good ol' fashioned V-8? That is the question ahead of watching the video above. After viewing the results are...
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Meet the F-150 Raptor's big brother, the F-250 MegaRaptorThe new Ford Raptor is a wicked machine right from the factory. It has switched to a smaller displacement twin-turbocharged V-6 engine, but it makes more power than the V-8 versions before and it seems to be an all-around better truck. For some, perhaps, it's a bit on the small side. That sounds...
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Inch forward. The first staging light goes from inky blackness to a brilliant blot of bright yellow. It's telling you to keep moving forward just a little more. There's the second staging light, playing the same game as its partner. Trip and now you're ready to test the limits of your machine. It's been prepped and so have you. Your mind is ready and focused on the tree of lights waiting to tell you that it's time. The first set of yellow lights enter your vision like the sun rising in the east. Before the green has time to wake up, you're already on the throttle and staring 1,320 feet down...
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Rip around Monza flat out in a Ferrari FXX KAlexander West is, according to his Twitter profile, into finance and cars. He's clearly quite good at the finance part because he's got a heck of a lineup of vehicles from which to choose. On his YouTube page he posts simple, straight-forward clips of him enjoying his vehicles on tracks all over...
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2018 Porsche 911 GT3 laps 'Ring 12.3 seconds faster than predecessorRemember how Porsche told us that it doesn't care about lap times? That's great, because cars are so much more than their posted numbers. There's the feel a car gives you and the thrill you get simply from driving a machine that wails, roars, or howls. An incredible thing happens to you when you...
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Amateur driver pays tribute to Gymkhana with first-gen Subaru ImprezaWell, color us pretty darn impressed. Ken Block isn't the only guy capable of flogging rally machines for the sake of awesome, expertly executed stunts. We have an emulator on our hands. Tyler Witte took inspiration from the famed Gymkhana series and decided to set up an amateur version of the...
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This Camaro ZL1's exhaust is so loud it blows the airbags at speedThere are exhaust modifications, and then there are exhaust diverters. The latter is responsible for some pretty loud noises in this 2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1. In fact, it's so loud, it caused the side curtain airbags to deploy. Here's the backstory. YouTuber GuitarmageddonZL1 ordered a pretty...
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How to fix a misreading speedometerIt's a problem many may not know they're experiencing until flashing lights in the rearview mirror tell them otherwise. How do you know if your vehicle is reading an accurate speed? And if it isn't accurate, how do you go about fixing the problem? Have no fear, because Jason Fenske from Engineering...
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