By Speedhunters

Car Culture At Large

It’s always interesting to see how passion can push people to create very unique cars, and this Miata from Italy is the perfect example. The owner and avid reader of Speedhunters, Filippo Pirini, has been working on his little Mazda for 3 years and plans to have the car ready in the next year or so. Filippo will compete in one of the Italian drift championships so has carefully chosen every modification to help him create a nice set-up for drifting. Continue reading at Speedhunters

By Dino Dalle Carbonare

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Camaro + Challenger + Mustang = weird but awesome! I think someone should build it. What do you think? A few more pics after the jump, but you can read more about it at modelcarsmag.com and see more pics here.

Continue reading "Three Pony Cars in One" »

By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

This post might illustrate just how juvenile my sense of humor is, but if I was worried about that, I’d have hung up my laptop a long time ago. Seriously, I laughed my ass off at this, and if I ever got a hamster—which I won’t, because keeping rodents is creepy—I would totally get one of these. Enjoy.

By Michael Berenis

Tampa Sports Car Examiner

A Subaru Impreza can be used for many things, and now there’s a new form of Subie fun! This owner made good use of Subaru’s symmetrical all-wheel drive by towing a stuck semi with trailer out of the snow with an Impreza WRX STi. Read more about the Subaru tow at Tampa Sports Car Examiner.

By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

Audi’s e-tron was a smash hit at the LA Auto Show, and nobody had even seen it on the road. But Los Angeles Times automotive critic Dan Neil got to take one for a test drive and feel its 3319lbs of torque. Think we’ll really see these on the road in two years? With only a 100 being released worldwide, the chances of spotting one in the wild is remote, but it’d still be cool…

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Apparently, Spyker is making a last ditch effort to acquire Saab. Think they have a shot? The whole thing reminds me of this.

By Brian Lohnes

BangShift.com

Meet the Civette, an LS1-powered Honda Civic. It rules just as hard as you’d expect it would. The little bugger runs 10s, and from the outside you’d never suspect anything was amiss until the rear tires start making smoke. The way this thing is packaged up is really impressive. Before word got out, we’re guessing that this car horrified more than one traditional muscle car owner.

There had to have been scads of fab work to pull this whole car together and to do it so cleanly. Simply put, the math works. A breathed on LS1 doesn’t have to be set on kill if is only tasked with moving about 2,000 pounds of Honda. The video below shows it running in the 10-second range at the now closed Memphis Motorports Park. We bet it has chewed up some sporty cars at the autocross as well.

By Ben Schaffer

The Real JDM

I wanted to share with you a video I took during my last trip to Japan. The video is an up close look at Nissan’s R35 GT-R FIA GT1 Race car. This was one of those cars that was far more impressive in the flesh than I ever expected. Of all of the cars that I enjoyed seeing at the Nismo Festival this year, these GT1 cars were my favorite. The quality of the car’s construction, the sound, the details in the design and the closer resemblance to a street GT-R all made these cars more special to me than seeing the Super GT cars (which are closer to resembling rocket ships than street cars these days).

Having felt that pictures do not do the car justice, I jumped behind the ropes with my press pass and shot a walk around video of the car. My hope was to try to show the car from my perspective there at the event, getting a closer look at the design and also getting a chance to hear the sound of another nearby GT1 rev its insane V8 engine. Pictures in my opinion have a hard time doing this car justice.

I just put this up on youtube a minute ago for you all to see. I hope you enjoy.

By Dan Strohl

Hemmings

The whole automotive blogosphere seems to be holding its breath today, not sure whether to continue mourning for the death of Saab or to believe that Spyker’s 11th-hour offer is genuine. So we’re gonna exploit the situation by digging through the Hemmings.com classifieds to find the so-neatest Saab there, a 1974 Sonett with SCCA racing history. The seller’s description of the car, cribbed from his site, has more detail. Continue reading at Hemmings

By Speedhunters

Car Culture At Large

At the beginning of each year, Super GT teams flock to Malaysia to undertake harsh preseason testing at the Sepang Circuit. This, however, is not one of these cars. I hope you’re seated ladies and gentlemen, because what you’re looking at is actually a Malaysian street car, dramatically modified in homage to the steroid-fed racers of Super GT. Continue reading at Speedhunters

By Charles Kha