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February 18, 2014

Burnout: Tesla Model S vs. Pontiac Firebird 400

Burnout: Tesla Model S vs. Pontiac Firebird 400
While you’d think that a burnout might not be achievable in an electric car, you’d be wrong. In the interest of “science,” William Hawkins decided to put his 2013 Tesla P85 Model S up against his 1968 Pontiac Firebird 400 convertible and see how they’d compare.…
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February 18, 2014

Leno Drives a 1999 Shelby Brock Daytona Coupe

Leno Drives a 1999 Shelby Brock Daytona Coupe
Jay Leno, who’s now retired from his TV series and will hopefully have even more time to collect and drive some amazing cars, had a chance to take a look and and drive a 1999 Shelby Brock Daytona Coupe. …
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February 17, 2014

Aston Martin V12 Vantage Goes Ice Drifting

Aston Martin V12 Vantage Goes Ice Drifting
With much of the Northern Hemisphere covered in snow this time of year, it’s no wonder so many of the car videos showing up on the Internet these days involve driving on ice and snow.…
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February 17, 2014

Drop Your Car 14,000 Ft. to Maybe Win a Dodge Nitro?

Drop Your Car 14,000 Ft. to Maybe Win a Dodge Nitro?
Carlton Draught ran this unusual contest in its home country of Australia. One “lucky” contestant volunteered to have her daily driver dropped out of an airplane at 14,000 feet.…
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February 17, 2014

194 MPH Dodge Challenger “Road Runner Superbird”

194 MPH Dodge Challenger “Road Runner Superbird”
The 1970 Plymouth Road Runner Superbird was an amazing road car when it was built and continues to be very collectible to this day. But with prices for the classic vehicle well into the six-digit range, few can afford to keep one in the garage let alone take one out for a drag race.…
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February 17, 2014

Fiat 500 vs. Minnesota Snow

Fiat 500 vs. Minnesota Snow
If we lived at the bottom of the hill on a country road someplace that got a lot of snow and ice, our first choice of winter vehicles would probably not be a Fiat 500.…
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February 16, 2014

The Greatest Driving Road in the World?

The Greatest Driving Road in the World?
A few years back, the guys from Top Gear named Romania’s Transfăgărășan highway “The Greatest Driving Road in the World.” And while that may have been the case at the time, it seems that despite being a spectacular locale, sections of the road have become a victim of its own success, often too crowded and overrun with spectators.…
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February 16, 2014

The Triple-Decker Burnout

The Triple-Decker Burnout
By stacking a motorcycle on top of an El Camino on top of a flatbed truck, these New Zealand nutjobs were able to achieve what we believe is the world’s first (and only?)…
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February 15, 2014

Rally Monte Carlo 2014 in Slow-mo

Rally Monte Carlo 2014 in Slow-mo
Rally Monte Carlo 2014 was held on some snowy, wet roads late this past January. This video puts together some terrific action from the race from the Volkswagen, Hyundai Motorsport, Citroen Racing and Ford teams.…
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February 15, 2014

Porsche LMP1 Driving Simulator

Porsche LMP1 Driving Simulator
Car companies maintain a wide variety of methods for testing out the driving characteristics of their cars. While an actual race track is probably the best way to go hands-on with a car, sometimes vehicles aren’t yet ready to be driven, or weather conditions prevent testing.…
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February 15, 2014

Audi RS6 Sets World Record Top Speed on Ice

Audi RS6 Sets World Record Top Speed on Ice
Nokian Tyres claims to have the world’s best winter tires, and to prove it, they put a set of Nokian Hakkapeliitaa 8s on an Audi RS6 and proceeded to set the world speed record on ice, achieving a top speed of 208.602 mph.…
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February 14, 2014

Drag Racing on Sand

Drag Racing on Sand
We recently had the chance to see Top Fuel dragsters work their magic on a proper drag strip, and thought that was pretty insane. So the idea of taking these high horsepower bombs on wheels onto sand is beyond nuts.…
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February 14, 2014

McLaren’s Tooned 50th Anniversary Look Back

McLaren’s Tooned 50th Anniversary Look Back
McLaren Automotive celebrated 50 years since Bruce McLaren first laid the foundation for the company back in New Zealand with this delightful series of animated videos that take a light-hearted look at the history of the company.…
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February 14, 2014

Inside Audi Sport’s Secret Storage Facility

Inside Audi Sport’s Secret Storage Facility
/DRIVE was invited by Audi to a private test session of the R18 e-tron quattro at Sebring and then given an incredible tour of Audi’s storage facility which houses so much of the Audi Sport racing legacy.…
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February 14, 2014

Mobil’s Morbid Safety Ad from the 1960s

Mobil’s Morbid Safety Ad from the 1960s
Mobil obviously took road safety very seriously back in the 1960s, as shown in this rather morbid auto safety ad in which they drop a car off the roof of a 10-story building to demonstrate what a crash is like at 60 mph.…
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