Category Archive: CAR FEATURES, Videos
The Smoking Tire Checks Out A 575 Horsepower, Built To The Nines Jaguar XJ8L!
Apr 01, 2016Bryan McTaggart5
I don’t care what Karl, the owner of this Ipanema Brown Jaguar XJ8L says, thirty-five grand is not a budget build. If it is to him, so be it. But that is the only thing that I can nitpick about...
Petrolicious Catches Up With The Lucky Owner Of Renault’s Little Rally Monster, The R5 Turbo!
Mar 31, 2016Bryan McTaggart5
Bring up Renault in America, and the imagery is enough to make most gearheads sick: the dysfunctional marriage to American Motors. The Renault Alliance, Fuego, and “Le Car”. Renault had...
The Owner Of This Pontiac Trans Am Grew Up With Bathurst, Has A Rally Car Background, And Works For Ken Block – Petrolicious Tells The Story!
Mar 23, 2016Bryan McTaggart1
It’s difficult to find anyone who watched Smokey and the Bandit who didn’t walk away afterwards wanting a black-and-gold Pontiac Trans Am. The film company may have beaten the Pontiacs...
Jay Leno Checks Out Sung Kang’s “FuguZ” Datsun 240Z – This Skyline-Powered Beauty Is Worth Your Time, Trust Us!
Mar 15, 2016Bryan McTaggart1
It is easy to dismiss Sung Kang’s 1973 Datsun 240Z. It’s a Datsun with a Rocket Bunny body kit. It’s an import. It’s Sung Kang’s car…you know, Han from the...
Petrolicious Shows Us A Custom Willys Jeep And Trailer That Are Family Heirlooms That Still Get Taken Off-Road To This Day!
Mar 10, 2016Bryan McTaggart3
Handing things down from generation to generation seems to be a dying practice, and that’s something to be sad about, because that means history is being willfully forgotten for the sake of the...
Jay Leno Meets One Of The Biggest Stars From The 2015 SEMA Show, SpeedKore Performance’s “Tantrum” 1970 Dodge Charger!
Feb 24, 2016Bryan McTaggart2
In an event like the SEMA show, there are cars that grab your attention and do not let go, regardless of what you see. This year’s event left me with a short list of cars that were highlights,...
Jay Leno Gets A Taste Of Humble Pie After Getting Behind The Wheel Of A Jaguar XJ220 – How Is The Big Cat To Drive? Check This Out!
Feb 17, 2016Bryan McTaggart6
You could keep your Ferrari F-40 and Lamborghini Countach and Diablo posters…for yours truly in the early 1990s, this was the supercar to dream about, and I didn’t know jack squat about...
DeLorean Motor Company Releases A Video In Celebration Of Their Newfound Luck
Feb 06, 2016Bryan McTaggart1
Out of all of the companies that are celebrating the passing of the Low-Volume Motor Vehicles Replica Act, DeLorean Motor Company (the one in Texas, not the original) was probably celebrating the...
Fresh From The Toaster: The Rumble Of A Healthy Small-Block Chevy In A Scion xB?
Feb 06, 2016Bryan McTaggartComments Off on Fresh From The Toaster: The Rumble Of A Healthy Small-Block Chevy In A Scion xB?
So Scion is no more. I’ll be honest, I won’t be sad to see it go, because from my point of view, Scion never really did make much sense and after the first couple of years, you could tell...
Jay Leno Takes Us On A Tour Of Not Just The Ford Mustang Shelby GT350R…But The GT350R That He Personally Bought!
Feb 03, 2016Bryan McTaggart2
Anyone who ever doubted Jay Leno’s credibility as a car guy, consider this video the ultimate proof that you’re wrong. Sure, he’s got Jay Leno’s Garage, a place that is...
Jay Leno Gets A Closer Look At The Datsun Sunny 1200 Truck From SEMA! This Is A Neat Rig!
Jan 26, 2016Bryan McTaggart1
Last year’s SEMA show had plenty to see, from full-on race cars to the absolutely psychotic all-tube…erm, “thing” that was sitting out front to race cars, muscle cars, and the...
Take A Close Look At An Australian Legend, The Holden Torana A9X
Jan 11, 2016Bryan McTaggart9
In America we had the death of the muscle car in the early 1970s due to the combined efforts of the insurance industry, the onset of emissions controls, and a shift in tastes from fast and flashy to...
Best Of 2015: This RWD V8-converted Chevrolet Cavalier Is An Evil Little Sleeper From The Great White North
Jan 02, 2016Bryan McTaggart8
What is in the water in Quebec? First we find that twin-engined freak of a Pontiac Grand Prix, then we come across this: a Chevrolet Cavalier Z24 that’s been converted to rear-wheel-drive,...
Petrolicious Takes A Look At A One-Family, Well-Traveled 1970 Dodge Challenger Hemi R/T
Dec 30, 2015Bryan McTaggart2
Here’s a numbers lesson for you today: in 1970, Dodge cranked out 76,935 Challengers for production. Out of all of those cars, 137 of them were 426 Hemi-powered R/T hardtops with a four-speed....





