Victory burnouts. Is there no greater joy? Andrea Bertolini and Michael Bartels of the Maserati Vitaphone Racing Team celebrated their recent win of the 2008 FIA GT World Championship with burnout after triumphant burnout in their Maserati MC-12 racing car - but not at the racetrack, and for another good reason.

Performed in a carpark (the [...]

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This Sunday just gone (UK time) saw the return of the one true Top Gear to British television sets, and to computer screens of net-savvy fans around the world this morning.  Let me tell you: they’ve still got it.

Clarkson pits the Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 against the Porsche 911 GT2 – describing the latter as “terrifying”.  [...]

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Due this month, the latest downloadable update for Burnout Paradise will breathe some life back into Paradise with the inclusion of night-time racing (as if zooming through Paradise City wasn’t hair-raising enough already!), and motorcycles.

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In order to properly ascertain what Power and Torque actually are, it is essential to have an understanding of what the two terms really mean as opposed to the gut-level understanding you may feel you have.

Trust me, the explanation the ‘old man’ may have given you while you were perched over the open bonnet [...]

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The amazing news concerning Nissan’s new GT-R just keeps coming and must have the supercar manufacturers shaking their heads. Inside Line have tested a privately owned Japanese spec GT-R at an airstrip just outside of Tokyo. The fact that they thought the GT-R was the ducks guts is one thing but they also found the [...]

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Check out the video below of the Lexus IS-F putting its rear tyres through the mincer at Laguna Seca in California. Some people have all the fun…

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A little light-hearted entertainment for you. The politically correct response is abject horror and “how dare they…” but its not on a public road. Besides, lets not pretend that the police give a damn about their patrol cars or that we do either for that matter.

Victoria have anti-hoon legislation that allows them to impound vehicles [...]

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