Category Archive: CAR FEATURES, Videos
Jay Leno Brings Out His 1964 Triumph Bonneville For A Spring Ride – Check This One Out!
Modern motorcycles are engineering triumphs…pardon the pun. They hit speeds that should honestly terrify the holy hell out of a sane rider, grip like a vice in a corner, and accelerate with a...
Take A Ride In Jay Leno’s Ford Festiva Shogun – America’s Take On The Group B Rally Psycho-Hatch!
This 1989 Ford Festiva Shogun is often seen in the background of Jay Leno’s car videos, and has been featured before. Purchased new in 1989, Leno had to have one after he was shown the initial...
Morning Symphony: Canyon-Carving With A 7.0L Superformance-Built Shelby Daytona Coupe!
It has ties to aircraft manufacturer Convair, Ferrari, LeMans, Ford and was only built because of the Mulsanne straight at LeMans…the original version, without the two chicanes in it. The...
The WTF? Files: It’s A Mercury Cougar Chopper, Powered By A Chevy Mill!
The 1989-1997 Mercury Cougar wasn’t a bad car…just a bland one. Ford was so focused on front-wheel drive midsize cars that the simply ignored the Cougar and it’s Ford Thunderbird...
Morning Symphony: The Machine-Gun Blast Of A Skoda Fabia WRC Will Get You Moving In A Hurry!
Nothing will grab your attention faster than a strong anti-lag system getting strung up under boost. Nothing. Take it from a combat veteran…hearing a machine-gun POP-POP-POP! will scare the...
This 1965 Ford Mustang Fastback Is The Genesis Point For An SCCA Spec Mustang Racer!
There is always a starting point to any car enthusiasts’ sickness, whether it was a car they spotted as a kid, a project worked on with family or friends, or the moment they realized they were...
Chevrolet Camaro Versus BMW M4? Can Chevrolet’s Legend Compete With The Bavarian Legend?
Camaro versus Mustang. Ever since the fall of 1966, the Chevrolet Camaro’s main nemesis has been Ford’s pony car, and that’s pretty much because the Camaro was GM’s knee-jerk...
The Smoking Tire Checks Out A 575 Horsepower, Built To The Nines Jaguar XJ8L!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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...