Vintage racing footage is always fun to watch. You get to see what was state of the art back in decades past and relive rivalries and adrenaline rushes, but in this video shared by the brilliant Instagram account Japanifornia, we see something truly wacky. What you’re looking at is an open-wheel chassis that’s had the body of … Read more
The SEMA Show is known to produce lots of crazy custom cars and trucks that don’t actually work, like giant lifted trucks with bluetooth driveshafts and hot rods that have to be pushed into the convention center, but this bonkers build puts its money where its mouth is. As it sits now, this bright orange … Read more
Image: Mecum Auctions Another Monterrey Car Week has come and gone, along with the fantastic array of classic vehicles and futuristic concepts strutting their stuff on the golf course green by the sea. Many car enthusiasts dream of attending such a lush event, though few think they’d ever be able to walk away with a … Read more
Though it looks like—and weighs as much as—a full-grown ocean sun fish, smells like melted crayons, features a cabin littered with sticky delaminating buttons, and was typically filled, in period, with bratty pre-tweens squirting each other with tubes of Go-Gurt and arguing over which Disney Channel DVD to play on their seatback screens, the Mercedes … Read more
After 10 years in production the Lamborghini Huracan has gone to the great bullpen in the sky, and its replacement is a whole different sort of beast. Enter the new Lamborghini Temerario, a plug-in-hybrid supercar that has the first (and currently only) production engine that revs to 10,000 rpm. Lamborghini says the Temerario “redefines the … Read more
Screenshot: Maisteer on YouTube If you stay awake late at night trying to figure out how to make your car sound more like an F1 car from the late 1990s, with that ridiculously resonant howl exhaust sound, you’re going to want to watch this video from Maisteer on YouTube. There are three key features that … Read more
You can’t park there.Screenshot: Drone Views | Zisimos Zizos via YouTube (Getty Images) After millionaires were annoyed to find out that they were no longer able to get behind the wheel of their Porsche Carrera GTs earlier this year, it’s now the billionaires turn to stay put for a while as Koenigsegg has placed a … Read more
Photo: Lamborghini Lamborghini’s iconic 5.2-liter V10 engine will be no more one once the Huricán’s replacement hits production, but don’t worry because its replacement seems just as special. The new car, codenamed “Lamborghini 634” is set to debut later this year with a 4.0-liter twin-turbocharged flat-plane crankshaft V8 with a hybrid motor attached. Oh, and … Read more
The 1980s were a weird time for Chrysler: The company had just come back from the brink thanks to the versatile K-Car platform which flooded the formerly struggling company with the cash it needed to make a controversial move at the time: the purchase of Lamborghini for just $25 million. This bold move resulted in … Read more
Once you’ve gotten over the charging and pricing issues, the next problem most people have with electric cars is the way they sound. They argue that the hum of an electric vehicle motor is sterile or aren’t fans of synthesized engine notes that can be piped out of speakers built into the cars either. Now, … Read more
