Videos : Car Reviews And News

It’s been nearly 45 years since the Honda Civic hatchback first burst onto the scene, kicking off a long line of Japanese hot hatches for decades to come. While today’s Civic Type-R is certainly the most technically impressive and powerful of the Civic hatch family tree, it’s not necessarily everyone’s favorite when it comes to its over the top aero kit.

Racing around in stock cars on a dirt track is a blast; so is flying a high speed drone. So why not combine the two into a single activity? That’s basically what one aerial photographer recently did, when he set off to chase dirt track racers around the track using a fast-flying racing drone.

There are few more annoying things when you’re driving a sports car with low ground clearance than encountering a speed bump. I speak from personal experience, having scraped the lowest plastic diffuser on my Jaguar F-Type more than a few times over the nasty bumps in my Chicago neighborhood.

Ferrari and other sports car fanatics will go absolutely bonkers for this amazing video captured at the Ferrari Corse Clienti. Automotive photographer cvdzijden puts us smack dab in the middle of incredible Formula 1 and other race-prepped Ferraris as they take to the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium.

Driving an 800+ horsepower performance car down a dragstrip is a pretty amazing thing. I speak from personal experience. The launch is best described as being fired out of cannon, as you race towards the 1/4 mile mark in about 10 seconds with a top speed around 140 mph.

Do you like Land Rovers? How about mud? Then tune in and enjoy this fun video featuring a Land Rover Defender 90 ripping through fields and spewing mud everywhere. The clip “Farmkhana: Wild in the Fields” was put together by Club86, who headed to a privately-owned farm in their tricked out turbodiesel 1986 Defender, and proceeded to mash the gas pedal as hard as they could.

With Teslas, Bolts, I-PACEs, and E-TRONs, the era of pure electric cars is upon us, and their presence will only will expand over the coming years, as companies look to reduce greenhouse gasses and the use of traditional combustion engines.

I’m often jealous of the guys over at Motor Trend. I’d love to be able to drive the sweet cars they get their hands on all day long. At least that’s what they do in my imaging of the job.

When it comes to allowing you to run what you bring on a racetrack the Nürburgring is the place to go. Turn up in a rented cargo van at most tracks in the US and they won’t let you into the paddock, let alone onto the track.

A video has turned up that shows a 2018 Ford GT lapping the Nürburgring during industry test time. The driver is clad in a full racing suit and isn’t taking it easy on the car either.

When the Porsche 911 GT2 RS sauntered onto the famed Nürburgring and proceeded to beat the Lamborghini Huracan Performante and take its Nürburgring lap record, there was much rejoicing in Germany. Now, Lamborghini has stepped up and smacked Porsche across the face with its leather driving glove and beat Stuttgart at its own game.

We already shared the news of Volkswagen Motorsport’s record-breaking climb to the top of Pikes Peak, and now we have some official footage to enjoy as well. While we’ve yet to see the in-car footage of the bonkers-fast run, this aerial video captured from a chase helicopter is pretty awesome to watch.

Back in March, we talked a bit about Honda’s Mean Mower. At the time the rig was predicted to hit a top speed of up to 134 mph. Now that the Mean Mower Mk2 is here and ready to run, Honda has much loftier goals.

Any time you can lap the Nürburgring in less than 8 minutes, it’s an accomplishment, and only recently have we seen a handful of sub-7 minute laps in cars like the Porsche 911 GT2 RS. But famed race car driver Timo Bernhard just did the unthinkable – he ran round the ‘ring in less than 6 minutes. 

BMW has offered up a video of the coming 8 Series Coupe that shows off the car tearing its way through some backroads in Wales. The car is wearing camo so its hard to see just what it looks like, but you can certainly hear its V8 rumble.