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Category Archive: CAR FEATURES, FUNNY STUFF, RACING & ACTION, Videos

Roadkill! The Guys Buy The Internet Infamous Rear-Engined Mazda Rotary Pickup And Take It To Optima Ultimate Street Car!

About six months ago, Bring A Trailer featured a freak that I couldn’t share with you readers fast enough: a 1974 Mazda REPU (aka Rotary Pickup) that had the magic Dortio engine canned in favor...

How To Start The Weekend Right: A Legitimately Vicious Burnout! This Commodore Ute Screams Like A Banshee And Does Australia Proud!

I’m out on the road as I write this…not for anything even remotely BangShifty, mind you. I’m actually sitting in a room full of college students that are swarming around looking for...

Ultimate Adventure 2015, The Off-Roading Answer To Power Tour! Ride Along Through Seven States And Tons Of Fun Trails!

The concept behind the Four Wheeler Network’s Ultimate Adventure is simple: for a solid week, you and a buddy are going to go off-roading with a group of like-minded souls. You will be...

Extreme Barbie Jeep Racing 2015: What Better Way To Welcome The Holiday Season Like Riding A Child’s Toy Straight To The E.R.?

The Christmas music has been in full-force for at least two weeks, you’ve just now realized that the family thinks that Thanksgiving is going to be at your house and the only Turkey you have in...

Roadkill Extra! Freiburger, Finnegan and Dodge Put Eight Fans Inside Hellcats And Vipers For A Showdown!

If you are going to be sponsored by a name as big as Dodge, there really is only one way to work the deal properly so that both sides benefit from the relationship and the audience has nothing to...

Pennzoil’s Drifting Yellow Hellcat Challenger Is Back And Fully WFO In The Prequel To The “Airlift Drift” Ad

Earlier this year Pennzoil returned to our radar in a big way with their “Airlift Drift” advertisement that involved a bright yellow Dodge Challenger Hellcat being driven sideways at...

Question Of The Day: Has YouTube Influenced Your Automotive Leanings Any, And If So, How?

YouTube has been the world’s greatest drain on productivity since it appeared on the Internet in 2005. A majority of my day is spent surfing YouTube for work, never mind what I do on my time...

RJ Anderson Pushes A Polaris RZR To The Limit In An Industrial Wasteland In XP1K3

We were standing at BFGoodrich’s gigantic projector screen in the Silver Lot at SEMA when UTVUnderground and RJ Anderson unveiled their new XP1K3 video. Anderson has made a name for himself by...

The Perfect Garage: A Porsche That Will Scare The Hell Out Of You, And A 1000+HP Minivan For Family Time!

For years, my mantra has been “fast is fast”. It doesn’t matter how you attain the speed, so long as you can back up your claims. That’s not an easy feat to do when your claim...

This 1950 Chevrolet Pickup Is One Evil Mother! A Full-On Wall Of Tire Smoke, Fresh For You, From Nashville!

I’ve seen Jason Moody’s 1950 Chevrolet in person before, and the one part of it you cannot miss are the wide-5 style hubs. What would otherwise come across as a patina’d pickup...

Burnout Mondays: Let Ryan Tuerck Show You The Steps Needed To Fry The Hides Off Of A Minivan!

I’m no saint. Never have been, never will be, especially if there are a set of car keys nearby. I’ve told the story of my first burnout before…it involved a set of car keys sitting...

Start Your Week Off Right…With An Airplane Drifting Donuts In The Snow

It is official: Bobby Breeden is a freaking overachiever when it comes to piloting an aircraft. I say that not only as a writer, but as someone who has worked the rudder and stick before. We’ve...

Only In Australia: A Mid-Engined Kei Truck Spinning Tires To No Tomorrow

The “bongo truck”…that’s not what it is actually called, but my nickname for these things. Marketed as a Ford, Mitsubishi, Kia, and a whole host of Middle East and Asian kit...

Watch As This Nissan GT-R’s Hood Blows Off At Over 180 Miles An Hour!

At about 150 miles an hour, aerodynamics become an integral part of racing rather than an secondary consideration. Downforce becomes very real (and your best friend) and anything that can act like an...