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Tuned Nissan Maxima Races Porsche 911 Turbo at The Drag Strip
Tuned Nissan Maxima Races Porsche 911 Turbo at The Drag Strip

14 May 2014, 16:28 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / In one of the most entertaining drag races we have seen all year, a latin-looking mustached man is apparently taking his highly-modified Nissan Maxima to a drag racing event and pits it against a Po...

 
CLA 45 AMG Somewhat Keeps up With an Audi R8 V8
CLA 45 AMG Somewhat Keeps up With an Audi R8 V8

12 May 2014, 18:38 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / When it was launched back in 2007, the Audi R8 V8 jumped straight into Porsche 911 territory, where it not only stayed but also did quite a lot of damage. Combined with the probably less-than-ste...

 
E 55 AMG Owns Tuned Nissan 350 Z in Epic Drag Race
E 55 AMG Owns Tuned Nissan 350 Z in Epic Drag Race

12 May 2014, 07:33 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / As a slang word, “ownage” is mostly used by teenagers who play online games, but you will hopefully excuse us when we use it to accurately describe how one of the most epic drag races we...

 
Don Garlits Pushes 2,000 HP Electric Dragster to 184 MPH
Don Garlits Pushes 2,000 HP Electric Dragster to 184 MPH

8 May 2014, 20:29 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Even though "Big Daddy" failed to accelerate past the 200 miles per hour mark, the 82-year-old racing legend managed to break a new record with his Swamp Rat 37 electric dragster. By re...

 
1,100 HP Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 Bites More than It Can Chew
1,100 HP Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 Bites More than It Can Chew

8 May 2014, 10:08 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Convincing a Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 to churn out 1,100 horsepower at the wheels sounds like pure madness... because it is. And when you’ve got such a machine at hand, the combination between...

 
Stock-Looking Evo with 700 AWHP Is One JDM Sleeper
Stock-Looking Evo with 700 AWHP Is One JDM Sleeper

7 May 2014, 12:18 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Evos have always been known as fast cars, but everybody knows that, in a straight line, they’re not actually all that quick - that massive rear wing isn’t exactly helpful in this kind of...

 
Fastest Audi Q5 in the World Pulls 12s Quarter Mile Run with Child Seat In
Fastest Audi Q5 in the World Pulls 12s Quarter Mile Run with Child Seat In

5 May 2014, 15:44 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / We may have come up with a brilliant idea - any car that goes to the drag strip should be required to include a child seats. Children love fast cars and we should make sure more and more of them get...

 
AWE Tuning Audi S5 Sets a New Quarter Mile World Record
AWE Tuning Audi S5 Sets a New Quarter Mile World Record

1 May 2014, 09:30 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / With a quarter mile time of 11.883, AWE Tuning claims that its in-house developed tuning project is the fastest Audi S5 shat hasn't been stripped down. The car was clocked at 116.49 miles per h...

 
See a Lamborghini Gallardo Lose to a Ford Falcon GT
See a Lamborghini Gallardo Lose to a Ford Falcon GT

29 Apr 2014, 07:54 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / It's not everyday that you see a modern supercar lose a drag race – even from a roll – against an old-school muscle car, especially one from the land down under. In other words, ...

 
smart fortwo From Hell Has a Big Block V8
smart fortwo From Hell Has a Big Block V8

24 Apr 2014, 18:23 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Especially in Europe, there are quite a number of ways in which you can transform a lilliputian and mildly-slow smart fortwo into one of the fastest horror shows on wheels, and we mean that in the g...

 
Watch a Twin-Turbo Gallardo Spin onto the Grass on Its Way to 220 MPH Run
Watch a Twin-Turbo Gallardo Spin onto the Grass on Its Way to 220 MPH Run

22 Apr 2014, 13:50 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Ladies and gentlemen tuners, we are here to talk about what it means to actually drive a supercar, in this case a Lamborghini Gallardo, which has had twin turbos strapped to it. For this purpose, we...

 
RENNtech E 63 AMG vs Weistec SLS AMG Black Series
RENNtech E 63 AMG vs Weistec SLS AMG Black Series

17 Apr 2014, 18:48 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Now that the Mercedes-Benz E 63 AMG only comes with 4Matic flavor in the United States, many owners of the pre-facelift model have taken their cars to respected tuners in order to keep up and even s...

 
Tuned C 63 AMG vs Tuned Ford Mustang GT V8 <span>· Video</span>
Tuned C 63 AMG vs Tuned Ford Mustang GT V8 · Video

15 Apr 2014, 17:03 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / It's not everyday that we get to watch an impromptu race between a Mercedes-Benz C 63 AMG W204 and a Ford Mustang GT, especially when both models sport engine modifications which in essence sho...

 
Twin-Turbo Symphony: Watch 10,350 RWHP Racing
Twin-Turbo Symphony: Watch 10,350 RWHP Racing

14 Apr 2014, 15:22 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Ladies and gentlemen racers, we are here to show you what happens when the big boys decided to drag race. This is exactly what happened during the recent Texas Invitational event, where the slowest ...

 
World’s Fastest Nissan GT-R Pulls 7.81s Quarter Mile
World’s Fastest Nissan GT-R Pulls 7.81s Quarter Mile

14 Apr 2014, 12:50 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / These days, if you get a good night sleep, you have all the chances of missing a new Nissan GT-R drag record. Well, we don’t know how you’ve been spending your nights recently, but the G...

 
Mercedes-Benz E 63 AMG S-Model vs Tesla Model S
Mercedes-Benz E 63 AMG S-Model vs Tesla Model S

11 Apr 2014, 09:33 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / The drag race of the century will probably take place when the last sports car with an internal combustion engine will be pitted against an electric sports car. Sadly, we are probably not that f...

 
Watch an 800 hp Brabus E V12 Drag Race a Bunch of Supercars
Watch an 800 hp Brabus E V12 Drag Race a Bunch of Supercars

9 Apr 2014, 18:18 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Back in 2010 we had the immense pleasure of visiting the Brabus headquarters in Bottrop for a few days, which also proved enough time for us to drive what at the time was the fastest and most powerf...

 
This E 55 AMG W211 Does The Quarter in 10.3 Seconds
This E 55 AMG W211 Does The Quarter in 10.3 Seconds

8 Apr 2014, 16:23 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Launched back in 2003 and manufactured for around three years until it was replaced by the E 63 AMG, the Mercedes-Benz E 55 AMG (W211) is pretty much a modern classic when it comes to AMG uber-sedan...

 
Slightly-Tuned E 63 AMG vs Slightly-Tuned BMW M5 F10
Slightly-Tuned E 63 AMG vs Slightly-Tuned BMW M5 F10

7 Apr 2014, 19:18 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / Even though last year's billionaire mid-cycle refresh for the Mercedes-Benz E-Class W212 also brought a jump in horsepower and performance for the E 63 AMG models, there are still people out th...

 
See an SL 63 AMG R231 Do 10.6 Seconds in The Quarter Mile
See an SL 63 AMG R231 Do 10.6 Seconds in The Quarter Mile

1 Apr 2014, 15:58 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / With the continuous offensive of 4Matic all-wheel drive on AMG models started by Mercedes-Benz last year, you would expect that pretty much every three-pointed star model that wears an AMG badge in ...