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Eighteen-hundred and nine point six, to be exact. That's a lot of horsepower. Drag fiends, savor the heady aroma. The owner of this completely nutso twin-turbo Camaro built by Late Model Racecraft is Kelly Bise. It was built for the Texas Mile, and will be hitting the long and straight stretch this...

Before the advent of video games and thousands of cars stunningly recreated in high polygon models on hundreds of detailed race tracks, we used to use a little thing known as imagination and a little suspension of disbelief to get virtual racing thrills. Diecast cars were at the bottom of the tree...

If you've never been there, you can't really know. Death Valley is aptly named. It's hot. Damned hot. That's why every carmaker on earth comes to the dusty, sun-baked stretches of asphalt to test its cars to their extremes. In this video, BMW gives us a look at what hot-weather testing looks like...

All we can say is, we feel your pain. A motoring journalist for CAR Online, videotaping himself driving the just-launched 2012 Ferrari FF four-wheel-drive shooting brake on a limited-invitation press event, manages to ... ummm ... drive over a curb. Or as he might say, "kerb." His reaction is...

You just bought a new 2011 Chevrolet Volt, you're all set to save the world one full-range EV charge at a time...so what do you do? Hit up Laguna Seca, of course! The overenthusiastic duo inside this 2011 Chevrolet Volt dampens the party somewhat, but the lack of engine noise lets us hear the...

In any motorsport, the crashes are some of the most impressive footage--especially when the drivers (and co-drivers) walk away uninjured. Ken Block recently managed extend his record of rally-car annihilation, sending his Fiesta RS WRC car flying in testing in a wreck that rivals any...

If you're like us, you just can't get enough FF--for good or bad. It looks a bit like a modern take on Lamborghini's Espada, but it offers supercar performance, all-wheel-drive capability, and a novel drive system. Plus a new direct-injection V-12 engine rated at 660 horsepower. This trio of videos...

This day was inevitable. With an additional 38 horsepower and 17 pound-feet of torque on board, plus a reprogrammed gearbox and a more aerodynamic body, the new 2012 Nissan GT-R was always going to be quicker around a track than the outgoing 2011 model. Today we find out just how much quicker, and...

It's a bit early for the April Fool's jokes, but BMW apparently did exactly that with the M3 pickup that has been making the Web rounds over the past week. It has also been called a parts hauler, a prototype, and a meaningless mule. Whatever it is, it's in this video, driving through the fog. We...

Unlike the usual Euro hot-hatch tantalization, this video is a preview of things to come right here in the U.S. of A. Confirmed for sale here last September, the 2012 Focus ST should be making its way to 'Merika later this year. This video, showing off the show-car's Tangerine Scream orange in more...

Dr. Dre, the hip hop master and master of understatement, just tweeted a video from his personal account, filmed on the scene of his video for "I Need A Doctor," off his latest Album, Detox. His reaction is priceless. The car being wrecked wasn't priceless, but was surely expensive: it was a...

The long-running ad wars between Audi and BMW are just one example of taking the fight to the competition in the effort to sell more cars, and this week both Corvette and Infiniti have thrown down their gloves at respective rivals. But does this sort of advertising pay off in the end? We're not...

This is the aftermath of a crash involving a Bentley Continental GT, a soccer player’s wife and a very slippery stretch of road. Driving along a street in St. Petersburg late last week, Marina Malafeeva, the 36-year old wife of the goal keeper of Russian soccer club Zenit St Petersburg, lost...

We've been tracking the progress of the Jim Glickenhaus-backed Ferrari Pininfarina P4/5 Competizione closely as the car prepares to run the 24 Hours of the Nurburgring, including bringing you the second episode in the car's official documentary. Today, we have yet another video, this time with...

There's a new Goldilocks super tourer at Aston Martin, and it's called the Virage. Smaller than the flagship DBS and sportier than the DB9, the Virage is positioned for broader appeal. We'll let you know just how successful the Virage is with our first drive review later this week. In the mean...

Whether it's a real threat to the sport-focused and highly capable BMW M3 or not, the 2012 Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG Coupe stands as a serious performance coupe in its own right. These videos give us a closer look at the car, in action on the road. Packing at least 451 horsepower and up to 481...

When Lexus hit the streets in 1990, it had a gigantic credibility gap to overcome before it would be taken seriously as the luxury equivalent to Mercedes-Benz, BMW and anybody else you'd care to mention. With its marketing machine in high gear, so to speak, ads flooded the airwaves aimed at...

If you're a track hound or at all interested in becoming one, you could do a lot worse than starting with a driving school. Mercedes-Benz's AMG Driving Academy is a good example, with access to cars you won't find anywhere else. Today, we have a more in-depth video to go along with the teaser we...

The Amelia Island Concours ran last weekend, but if you weren't one of the ones lucky enough to attend in person, fret not--you can at least see Mercedes-Benz's slice of the action. This video offers just a taste of what there is to see at the show, which, like Pebble Beach, features some of the...

New technology is exciting, but like most exciting things it's also fraught with peril -- and that's doubly true for developers. Think of all the tsoris caused by the great VHS vs. Beta battles of the 1980s, or the far more recent Blu-ray vs. HD DVD war, both of which cost manufacturers billions of...