Burnouts

Anyone who has seen the YouTube channel WhistlinDiesel knows the channel is all about tearing up cool cars and doing crazy things. The latest crazy thing saw the guys purchase a Challenger Hellcat and then bolted on wheels designed for a horse and buggy.

The McLaren Senna is one of today’s ultimate supercars. Not only does it pack a mid-mounted 789 horsepower twin-turbo V8 engine, but it’s got the kind of aerodynamic elements normally reserved for track-only race cars. It’s also about a million bucks, and the kind of car you expect to see either meandering slowly down the streets of Monaco by some billionaire, or perhaps taking a few hot laps around the Nürburgring.

Previously, on TaxTheRich, we got to witness a Ferrari 288 GTO driving off-road, and a Jaguar XJ220 ripping up some grass in the English countryside. In this clip, the man who refuses to treat his supercars with kid gloves takes that very same XJ220, and smashes the hammer down to create an epic burnout, fueled not just by burning rubber, but a little bit of highly-flammable accelerant to get a small fire going.

I once took my kids to a NHRA Top Fuel event in Texas. It was our first time to a drag race ever, and I had no idea just how much noise dragsters could generate. We got a sample with the burnouts, but that was nothing.

Koenigsegg has been hard at work on its new top of the line Regera hypercar. The car will be the fastest that the firm offers when it eventually hits the streets. Koenigsegg recently took a prototype to the test track and decided to burn the place down.

If you have the cash to afford an exotic sports car, then I assume you’re rich enough not to have to worry about abusing it a bit. Which is exactly what a Supercars of London reporter found when he took a cameraman to the Goodwood Festival of Speed and collected a montage of awesome rides tearing their tires to shreds.

At the beginning of this year, a group of 103 gearheads gathered in Australia to all hit the gas on their rides at once to set the world record for the largest simultaneous car tire burnout.

To celebrate the arrival of New Year’s Day 2015, a group of drivers in Canberra, Australia got together to break the world’s record for the largest simultaneous car tire burnout. The awe-inspiring site of smoke and burning rubber could be witnessed (and inhaled) by those in attendance at Summernats 28.

With its insane 707-horsepower 6.2 liter engine and 650 lb-ft. of rear-wheel drive torque, there’s no question that the 2015 Dodge Challenger Hellcat will be a burnout machine. In this clip from Car and Driver, they got their hands on a pair of the cars to do nothing more than to take them to the dragstrip and smoke the tires.

Cough, cough. We can smell the burnt rubber coming through our computer display as this car/truck combo called “BLOWN” spins its rear wheels like mad during Australia’s 2014 Ultimate Burnout Challenge. Given the intense heat and friction being generated, we’re surprised his tires didn’t catch fire earlier in the video.

FIA Formula E racing is getting ready to kick off its inaugural season in Beijing, China on September 13, 2014. While we wait for the first of these high-speed electric car races, sit back and enjoy this brief footage of driver Lucas di Grassi playing around with his Formula E car during a recent demonstration in Los Angeles.

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.

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?) triple-decker burnout all the way back in 2008.