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Dyno Video: Watch A Totally Pissed Off Ford ‘Ute With A Twin Turbo Six Cylinder Make Nearly 900hp To The Tire!

Here’s further proof that turbos are pretty much the cure for all of the world’s ills and that the make every damned thing better. This video is from Australia and it shows a really clean...

Ever Seen A Locomotive Do A Burnout? This Is One Heck Of A Look At One!

It seems impossible that something as insanely heavy as a locomotive could ever break traction on dry tracks but this video proves that these things make such immense torque through their diesel...

Classic YouTube: Taylor MacKenzie Bails His Burning Kawasaki At Snetterton

Were you a firebug as a kid? I was. I’m amazed that I didn’t burn down the Little League complex that used to be where the Bandix Dog Park now stands. My idiot brother and I would top off...

2020 ECTA Firecracker Mile Gallery: More Straight-Line Action From The Airstrip

Friday’s action at the 2020 ECTA Firecracker Mile might have gone on longer than I planned, but two things conspired to make it a short day: one was a thunderstorm that was going to converge on...

American Ute Fixation: 2008 Ford Explorer Sport Trac Adrenalin, With Coyote and Six-Speed

It’s a bit of a toss-up to know where the American SUV craze started. Was it the XJ Cherokee, with it’s boxy shape and it’s proven four-wheel-drive system that was smaller and...

Making Donuts: The Entire Coverage From The Burnout Rivals Event At The Freedom Factory!

From the moment I saw a Holden Monaro go so hard that it was breathing purple fire out of the pipes by the time the show was over, Australian-style burnout contests were going to be a thing in my...

104hp Per Cylinder – The New 416hp Mercedes 2.0L Four Cylinder Is Hotter Than A Pistol And Makes More Torque

(By Tom Lohnes) – Mercedes-AMG has just revealed their craziest engine ever and it has half the cylinders of a V8. The company revealed a 2.0-liter 4-cylinder that makes more power than the...

Southeast Gassers Action Photos: More Great Images From These Leaping Beasts At Mooresville Dragway

(Photos by David Whealon) – There’s a certain irony in the location of Mooresville Dragway. Not the fact that it is located in one of the most gearhead-centric cities in American but...

NHRA Insider Podcast: Planning For The Unplannable – How The NHRA Developed The Processes and Procedures For Fan and Racer Safety

If there is one job that I know I wouldn’t have wanted during this time of stoppage in the world of NHRA drag racing it is that of Kasey Coler, the man who in many ways was on the point of...

Short Stack Torque Maker: This Blown 400ci Small Block Chevy Makes 681hp and All The Twist

Meh, a 680hp small block you say. Why bother watching the video, right? Just another engine that doesn’t make 1,000hp and doesn’t cause some dude’s YouTube project to pull a flaming...

Memory Test: The 1993 MotorWeek Road Test Of A Ford Escort GT Proved Our 13 Year Old Opinions Correct

I was 13 in 1993 when this car came out and I didn’t really like it when I first saw it. That’s a fact. It made me smile when this video came up on the MotorWeek Channel though because it...

More Mickey: This 1990s Profile Of Mickey Thompson Is Filled With Old Footage We’ve Never Seen

A couple of weeks ago, we directed you to check out the little mini-documentary that Freiburger had made about Mickey Thompson and his quest to run 400mph on the salt. Well today we’re back...

Hi-Ho, Land Yacht, Away: A 1973 Chrysler Newport For Old Time’s Sake

If you’ve read my past writings that involve a Chrysler Newport, you’ll know about the history of one 1973 model that is pretty much my indoctrination into the adrenaline high of...

The Challenger Revival, Part 19: Air Conditioning And The Reconstruction Of The Dash

Dylan McCool and I have several things in common: a strong Mopar streak, a love of the open road, and we both live in a part of the United States where the summer weather can be described as,...