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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.

In certain stretches of the Autobahn, those German cats get to take their cars on public roads and go pretty much balls out without fear of the police. The thing that I always find interesting about these high-speed Autobahn runs is that everyone on the road knows to GTFO when a faster car is overtaking.

In the States, if you hit triple-digit speeds on public roads and get caught, you go to jail, and your car gets impounded. In some parts of Germany’s Autobahn, there are no speed limits, and you can go as fast as you want.

This is one of the coolest videos that has turned up for car guys and gals in a while. This compilation was captured at the Nürburgring, and shows off a variety of prototype cars being tested around the famed German circuit.

Winter is holding on for its last gasp here in the Midwest, but it’s not going down without a fight this year. Snow and ice is still a possibility for at least the next couple of weeks.

One glance at the 2019 Corvette ZR1 and you know the beast is fast. The car was on hand at Sebring recently, along with Corvette Product Manager Harlan Charles. At the event, Charles climbed inside the grey ZR1, cranked it up, and gave us some revs.

Honda rolled out something it called the Mean Mower back in 2013, and the crazy lawnmower had a 1000cc V-twin engine out of a Honda Firestorm motorcycle tucked inside. That mower was able to hit nearly 117 mph, and was very impressive indeed.

Have you really put any thought into how strange it will be to be in a car that you can’t control? Not only that you can’t control, but a car that has no human at the wheel?

I’ve seen some fast cars in my day, and the insane acceleration will always take you by surprise. The fastest vehicles I’ve ever seen in person were NHRA top fuel dragsters and that sort of acceleration (and noise) is mind-boggling to say the least.

Elon Musk has taken his red Tesla Roadster, put a “spaceman” behind the wheel (in a SpaceX spacesuit prototype) and then put both into the nose cone of the massive Falcon Heavy rocket. Both the Roadster and spaceman were successfully sent into orbit in spectacular fashion, and without so much as a hitch along the way.

Chevrolet took its all-new 2019 Corvette ZR1 down to Virginia International Raceway and set the beast loose. The 4.1-mile circuit is described by many as the most challenging road course in the US. The 2019 ZR1 rolled away with the record for fastest production car lap at the track, besting the far more expensive, but less powerful Ford GT.

Ford Performance makes a number of hopped up versions of cars like the Mustang GT350R, the Focus RS, and the F-150 Raptor. They also are responsible for the crazy fast Ford GT and its racing version.

While lots of car companies turned up at CES 2018 with things like EVs, hybrids, and driver-assistance tech, Honda brought along something altogether different from the crowd. The 3E-D18 Robotic Concept is an off-road capable vehicle that can be operated without need for a driver.