We get the feeling no amount of straps will be able to restrain this monster.

For those that haven’t yet realised, MX-5s are rear-wheel-drive.

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When South Side Performance (SSP) released details of its GTR820RR Turbo upgrade kit for Nissan’s R35 GT-R, we were pretty excited. For good reason too; SSP has now released a dyno sheet and footage showing what the kit is capable of when combined with other minor bolt-on modifications.

With 21psi of boost dialed in and surprisingly [...]

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RON? Not your next-door neighbour.

What does the RON number mean in regard to petrol?
Unleaded fuels carry a RON (Research Octane Number) rating. Put simply, RON determines petrol’s ‘anti-knock’ quality or resistance to pre-ignition; or if you want to put in another way, the Octane Number denotes its resistance to detonation.
If you run your [...]

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Wish you had something akin to the GT-R’s multifunction display in your hand-me-down Corolla? Well, if you’ve got an Apple iPhone, you could transform that slab of plastic and metal into a bona-fide performance meter/datalogger.

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…well technically that’s not true, as a single horse actually has around 15 horsepower (weird huh?). Still, that doesn’t make ROUSH’s latest creation any less bizarre for an automaker that’s more well known for pumping out 300+kW modified Mustangs.

Built for Turkish company Kurt Systems, the fibreglass-bodied contraption is designed to allow a trainer, vet or [...]

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Ever wondered what the folks in glasses and lab coats over at Porsche’s Research and Development Center in Weissach get up to? Well, you’re not alone and you’re not going nuts, because we’ve been wondering the same thing lately—and now we know.

They spend their days thinking up ways to mimic the g-forces experienced by a [...]

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Nissan have pitched their new GT-R right at Porsche’s 911 Turbo, so much so that on paper the GT-R is listed as having the same 353kW power output as the turbo. Yet by all reports, the GT-R is matching if not out-performing the 911 Turbo and it weighs some 200kgs more…so what gives?

Historically, Nissan have [...]

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