Pictures and videos showcasing cars we love. Just for fun.
Jason Cammisa’s first video with MT is here, and he’s got a Porsche Cayman GT4, and lots of time on his hands. I’ll miss watching Carlos–but Jason’s really excellent, and his wheelman skills are prevalent. Watch this–the Cayman GT4 is an excellent car, and here it gets its due.
-Albert S. Davis
Careful watching this one at work folks, because this is damn near pornographic. The Lamborghini Miura is one of the most beautiful and striking cars ever made, and Petrolicious sure knows how to find all of its best angles.
Turn up you speakers, and enjoy!
Edmunds takes us for a spin in two Corvettes separated by 50 years, a C2 Stingray and the current C7 Stingray.
My how things have progressed technologically, but I still think the C2 Stingray is the best looking Vette of all time.
Enjoy!
-Nick
The BRZ and the new Miata are similar in that they are both bona-fide sports cars for less than the cost of a well-optioned Toyota Camry. They’re also both blessed with four cylinders, rear-wheel-drive, and a sporting chassis with good build quality. Carlos Lago takes both of them to the streets in this episode of Head 2 Head. Notable as well is that this was Carlos’s last film work with Motor Trend–he’s outdone himself. Then, he hands the narration off to Randy Pobst. Take 25 minutes on your lunch break, and watch this–but listen to what both have to say. I’m revealing nothing. I still want to drive both back-to-back myself, but this taught me a lot of what the ND has to offer against the BRZ.
-Albert S. Davis
The new ACR is the most extreme Dodge Viper yet, and it has a lot of tricks up its sleeve that make it faster around a track.
Enjoy!
-Nick
Jalopnik takes the Jeep Renegade Trail Hawk off-road to see how it stacks up as a real Jeep.
Keep in mind, the Renegade can also see about 30 MPG when cruising on smooth roads. Not a bad mix at all if you ask me.
-Nick
Randy Pobst should be given a Nobel Prize for the size of his stones. Nick and I both love Roadkill, the show from Motor Trend that features Hot Rod Magazine editors David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan doing nutball stuff with old cars, then subjecting them to either abuse or some sort of scatterbrained idea. The Draguar, originally a Jaguar XJ12, packed a swapped small-block Chevy with a Weiand 671 blower (which self destructed at the drag strip), and now has a blueprinted V8 with over 600hp–they got it running again, washed it, and gave it to Randy Pobst. Watch the rest to see what else happens–I was laughing so hard I really did fall off my chair, and I have the bruise on my arm to prove it.
-Albert S. Davis
Lamborghini has released the crazier, more hardcore version of the Aventador, the LP-750 SV. The SV stands for Super Veloce, which basically means “higher velocity”… a Lambo that is faster then a standard Lambo.
Evidently, the Aventador SV is much improved in areas where the standard Aventador lacks a bit. When I drove the Aventador a few years back, I enjoyed much of the car, but I really didn’t like how it handled on the track at all. Hopefully, Lamborghini has fixed the Aventador with the SV in a similar way they did the Gallardo with the Superleggera. Brute acceleration and a screaming engine are awesome to have, but it’s nice when a car doesn’t just understeer to no end when you push it in corners.
Either way, the Lamborghini Aventador SV is one hell of a looker, and surely a sight that will be seen on bedroom walls across the world.
Enjoy the vid!
-Nick
Gotta love it when someone takes a car meant cart around dogs and children, and makes it insane. This Subaru Forester is making over 500hp, obviously with some large turbo strapped to it, and Matt Farah got to take it for a rip.
Enjoy!
-Nick
/Drive’s Matt Farah compares a classic Pro-Tourer modded Mustang called “The Villain” against the brand new 2015 Ford Mustang GT with the 5.0L Coyote V8 in it and a proper stick shift
Would you spend $150,000 to have your own “Villain” retro Mustang? Would you spend $35,000-$40,000 to have a new Mustang GT? The cars are in two totally different markets, naturally, but it’s something to consider.
I’ve never been a huge Mustang guy, myself, but I must admit that black over red 2015 GT 5.0 in the video did make me drool a bit. As for the resto-mod ‘Stang, it’s definitely cool as all hell, but it’s not how I’d spend my own $150,000 because I’m a fiend for exotics. That said, I can totally see it being worthwhile for anyone who really loves muscle cars, and wants a quality resto-mod they can actually thrash.
Think about something like the Singer 911, though, how badass would it be if a company started building custom classic Mustangs like that. Classic Recreations, who makes “The Villain” seems to be trying that idea out a bit, so I wish them much success.
Enjoy!
-Nick
In another serious gem of a video by Petrolicious, we are taken back to the 1955 Mille Miglia with non other than Sir Stirling Moss himself, who won the race with his Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR #722.
This was really the golden era of racing when everything was still allowed to be excessively dangerous. The Mille Miglia, a one thousand mile race on the public streets of Italy, was probably the most notorious race of the age. Moss finished the race in just 10 hours and 7 minutes setting the all time record for the race, which has never been beaten.
You have to understand the context to appreciate the enormity of his achievement, and to appreciate just how awesome a car the Mercedes 300 SLR is, even by modern standards. Officially, the roads were all closed, but Italy being Italy, that meant absolutely nothing. So it was basically a 1000 mile sanctioned street race, dodging trucks and much slower pedestrian traffic. The speeds were also no joke either, 150-160mph was routinely reached by Moss in his SLR, and he even talks about getting airborne at those speeds. Also keep in mind that this was all back in the mid 1950s with tire and braking technology from the era. Most modern cars, with modern technology, cannot stop or maneuver well at 160mph, but the 300 SLR could do it back then… at least well enough that it is still in one piece.
Enjoy this video. Moss is one of the most legendary drivers of all time, and the 300 SLR is probably the most epic car Mercedes-Benz has ever made.
-Nick
Fancy buying a Nissan Skyline GT-R or an old Silvia? With the import ban ending on late-80s/early-90s models, that is a realistic dream. MotorWeek takes a look at what it takes to get your hands on such a car, and it costs less than you might think. Enjoy!
-Nick
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