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650hp Corvette Does Donuts in the Snow

Pfadt Race Engineering modified a 2014 Corvette Stingray with a bunch of their aftermarket tuning parts, adding a supercharger and new exhaust headers, and tuned the car to boost the car’s 460hp V8 up to a monster 650…

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Audi Announces Sport Quattro with Laser Lights

Audi has announced it will be premiering its new Audi Sport Quattro Laserlight Concept at the 2014 CES in Las Vegas. The car looks to be a more refined version of Audi Sports Quattro concept announced a few…

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Volkswagen Celebrates 30 Years of Jetta GLI

The Volkswagen Jetta GLI was first introduced in 1984 and was essentially a VW GTI wrapped in a Jetta body. It included the GTI’s fuel-injected, 90 horsepower engine, 5-speed manual transmission, and sport suspension. The vehicle was distinguished…

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Gymkhana Six Recreated with 1/18th Scale Racer

Ken Block’s Gymkhana Six obstacle course run was incredible to watch and Block’s driving skills are always impressive. The Gymkhana series has spawned a number of tributes, including Snowkhana Two, a holiday tribute in stop-motion miniature. But…

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Building the Porsche 911 Carrera

Another fine, unembellished video from the folks at YouCar takes us inside the assembly line for Porsche’s popular sports coupe, the 911 Carrera (Type 991). We’re duly impressed by the amount of manual labor that still goes into…

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Winter Driving Experience with Bentley Motors

When the roads are covered with snow and ice, do your thoughts turn to “time to get my $200,000 Bentley out of the garage and go for a spin?” If so, then the Bentley “Power on Ice” winter…

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Nissan Teases New Sport Sedan Concept

While the 2014 NAIAS show in Detroit is just days away, Nissan is teasing us with a new concept car which could serve as the foundation for its future direction in sport sedans. The partial image doesn’t show…

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1971 Jensen Interceptor Mark II for Sale

You may recognize the Jensen Interceptor Mark II as the car that Michelle Rodriguez drives in Fast and Furious 6. If you have $18,500 to spare, you can buy one of your own. The guys over at Hemmings…

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Dodge Details Charger & Challenger 100th Anniv. Ed.

The 100th Anniversary Editions of the Dodge Charger and Challenger were announced just a few weeks ago. In this video, Jenna Kirkpatrick, the Dodge Brand Manager, reviews some of the unique details in these two cars which commemorate…

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The Ice Truck

While we’ve seen a model of a Porsche sculpted from ice, the guys at Canadian Tire have done them about 1,000 times better by building an actual truck out of ice. Yes, what you’re looking at here is…

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Sit Inside the Jaguar F-Type R Coupe (Virtually)

Curious to know what the inside of the new Jaguar F-Type Coupe looks like? Thanks to the fine folks at Jaguar, we can now poke our heads around the luxurious and sporty interior of this sexy new ride…

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50 Years of Mustang

Jay Leno gets together with Lee Iacocca to show off the very first Mustang to roll off the assembly line, and take us back to the earliest days of America’s seminal pony car. We’re also enamored of the…

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iQ Font: A Typeface Created by Driving a Car

Toyota asked two typographers to design a font using a Toyota car. The idea was to track the motions of the vehicle using overhead cameras and custom software to create the font. The typographers, Pierre and Damien, chose…

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