Thanks to the ridiculous success of Fast And Furious, the fourth installment in what’s swiftly becoming the Rocky series for the 21st century young male, The Fast And The Furious franchise will be returning for a fifth go-round.

In a recent interview with a US radio station, blessed B-grade actor Paul Walker confirmed that he, and [...]

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Well chaps, yet another hour and a half of Jason Statham’s grimaces and steely-eyed stares have been visited upon us, this time in the form of Paul W.S. Anderson’s (Event Horizon, AVP) Death Race, the remake of 1976’s Death Race 2000.  I wonder; could they not have called it Death Race 2012?  Anyway, let’s move [...]

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In the next few years, we are going to see some truly amazing machinery emerge from the Land of the Rising Sun - the Nissan GT-R and GT-R V-spec, the Lexus LF-A, and the Acura NSX.

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As you may have noticed, most of the TMR team are big fans of the new Nissan GT-R. Every tidbit of information is lovingly posted, and plenty of discussion occurs afterwards.

Of course, in the automotive journalism world its arguable that no car is truly reviewed until Top Gear gets their hands on one, and puts [...]

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Universal Pictures have released 17 snarling, rabid photos from their cage on the back lot of the studios, revealing that Paul W.S. Anderson’s upcoming film Death Race is set to take everything we know and love about classic post-apocalyptic car movies—including the original Death Race 2000 film upon which it’s loosely based—and drop a warm [...]

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Thinking about doing some wrangling in your Wrangler? Well, maybe you’d best just stick to the streets and leave the wrangling to capable 4×4s.

Read on, to see how close one phenomenally unlucky weekend warrior came to discovering an alternative way to drive stick.

I’m reminded of the brilliant Ron Howard film starring Michael Keaton, Gung Ho [...]

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Following Ferrari’s successful expeditions through China and the Americas, proving that the legendary super car makers products can go just about anywhere, Ferrari has announced that in 2008 it will explore India with two Ferrari 612 Scagliettis and a team of international media.

The “Magic India Discovery Tour’ will start in Mumbai on the 25th of [...]

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Mazda have confirmed that they are bringing their futuristic Hakaze Concept car to the 2008 Melbourne Motor Show, where it will make its Australian debut. The Hakaze is another concept from Mazda’s stunning ‘Nagare’ series (Nagare means “flow” and “the embodiment of movement” ) and the second in the series to make an Australian appearance. [...]

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Our friends over at Automobiles De Luxe posted an interesting article on the 70’s cult classic C’était un Rendezvous, the short film made by Claude Lelouch in 1976 - you can check it out here

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It’s no secret that Nissan benchmarked their new GT-R against the Porsche 997 Turbo, so seeing it win a track challenge undertaken between the two is not altogether unexpected, its just that the Japanese seem to film everything for a game show of some kind and I’m not sure how genuine the result is in [...]

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Aston Martin’s star is certainly on the rise with record sales being driven by quality product and in the case of the DBS an extraordinary five year waiting list. It should come as no surprise then that they have their sights firmly set on the emerging Asian markets, in-particular China and for the first time [...]

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Most car enthusiasts, regardless of their age will have seen or at least be aware of the famous car chase in the 1968 movie classic Bullitt. The stars of the movie, Steve McQueen and his highland green Mustang featured in a 7 minute car chase that has defined movie car chases ever since. Flung through [...]

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