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XCAR Films takes us on a thrilling ride in an Morgan 3-Wheeler. Not only is the revamped Morgan a whole lot of fun to drive, it does exactly what it was supposed to do – get you around faster than a horse.

If you find yourself stuck in the snow, you know that even the best winter tires or chains aren’t necessarily going to bail you out of the deepest banks. Enter Track N Go, a modification kit that lets you turn everyday pickup trucks into snow-eating tanks in less than 15 minutes.

In this incredible film, made in 1956, the 1955 Le Mans champion, Mike Hawthorn, takes us on a lap of the Le Mans circuit in his Jaguar D-Type. Since this isn’t even a race day, Hawthorn dodges pedestrians, bicyclists, farm trucks and other drivers as he walks us through the track and explains just how much faster he’d be going during an actual race.

(NSFW: Language) While we’ve seen plenty of video of drivers on the Nürburgring’s Nordschliefe, most of them do it when the track’s surface is dry and prepared for top speed driving. Not so for the guys from Bridge to Gantry, who headed to the famously challenging track with a BMW 328i when it was soaking wet this past November.

The 2014 Dunlop 24 Hours of Dubai race took place January 9-11, 2014 and Nissan’s NISMO team takes us behind the scenes with their team as they compete in the event. The Dubai 24Hr has the longest period of darkness of any 24 hour race: 13 hours and 20 minutes, officially.

A few seasons back, Top Gear attempted to recreate the famous barrel roll stunt from James Bond’s The Man with the Golden Gun. They failed quite spectactularly. For their never-broadcast DVD special Top Gear at the Movies special, they bravely attempted the stunt a second time, with decidedly better results.

TaxTheRich takes us on another unexpected ride in a supercar – this time tearing through grass and dirt of the countryside with the classic Jaguar XJ220. While the car now 20 years old, it still comes close to today’s top supercar standards, with a 542hp 3.5-liter V6, a sub 4.0 0-to-60 time, and a top speed of 213.1mph.

(NSFW: Language) The Brakim Racing Rally Team goes off the road on a “right 5 into right 4, drops outside” corner during the Rally West Virginia. The car goes end-over-end a few times, then finally stops.

Clashproduction created this great video from the 2013 Superdrift Italy event. From practice through qualifying to the final round, watch as this crop of mostly BMWs gets sideways and destroys a lot of rubber. With cameras mounted on the front and back of the cars, this video gets up close and personal with the intense, on-the-edge world of drift racing.

What happens when Godzilla starts taking steroids? The Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3, that’s what. Just imagine taking what is one of the fastest accelerating vehicles on the road today and stripping about 1,000 pounds from its weight, improving its aerodynamics and downforce, and turning it into a rear-wheel drive (per FIA GT3 regulations).

While today we can enjoy Chevy’s impressive C7 generation Corvettes, let’s take a ride back to 30 years in the past to see how Chevy was pimping their then brand new C4 ‘Vette. This amusingly-dated commercial serves as both a time capsule and reminder of just how much automotive design and technology have evolved in the past three decades.

We recently stumbled onto this video clip from a couple of years back, in which stunt driver Mauro Calo managed to put a Mercedes-Benz  C63 AMG sedan into an insanely long powerslide. The slide itself lasted for a bit over two minutes, as he kept his tires burning rubber for a distance of 1.44 miles around a circular track.

The production 2015 WRX STI looks promising and Subaru has just announced that it will be running a race-spec version of the car in the 24-hour race at Nürburgring. The car will compete in the SP3T class, which includes turbocharged engines displacing from 1.75 to 2.0 liters.

If the looks and specs of the upcoming Coupe version of the Jaguar F-Type V8 aren’t exciting enough, just wait until you get a load of this video of the beastly 542bhp F-Type V8 R. Autocar’s Steve Sutcliffe takes a prototype car for a ride around the track at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya.

Florida’s Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance is just around the corner, and there’s no better way to prepare for the upcoming event but by taking 15 minutes out of your busy to enjoy this amazingly shot short film.