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Superchaged Hot Rod Runs 8-Second Quarter Miles in Sydney
Superchaged Hot Rod Runs 8-Second Quarter Miles in Sydney

11 Feb 2014, 11:01 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / We all know Australians are just crazy about drag racing and hooning all sorts of locally-built Fords and Holdens down the drag strip. Not to mention some of the awkward dragsters we've seen re...

 
Mopar Gears Up for 2014 NHRA Season
Mopar Gears Up for 2014 NHRA Season

6 Feb 2014, 14:34 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Mopar has announced it will return to Pro Stock racing for the 2014 NHRA season with two entries powered by Hemi engines tuned by Roy Johnson. The drag machines will be driven by defending world cha...

 
2014 Ford Fiesta ST Drag Raced Against Chevy El Camino, Blown Dodge
2014 Ford Fiesta ST Drag Raced Against Chevy El Camino, Blown Dodge

4 Feb 2014, 10:50 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / While many of you aren't that much into drag racing, we bet you'd like to find out how long it takes for certain production cars to complete the quarter mile. And we're not talking ab...

 
1700 HP Chevy Silverado Runs 8-second Quarter Mile, Sets World Record
1700 HP Chevy Silverado Runs 8-second Quarter Mile, Sets World Record

31 Jan 2014, 17:24 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The white 2004 Chevrolet Silverado you’re about to see below is the world’s fastest 1999+ model year Chevy pickup truck on the drag strip. Fitted with a 427 cubic inch engine and a P...

 
Aussie CLA 45 AMG Does The Quarter in Under 13 Seconds
Aussie CLA 45 AMG Does The Quarter in Under 13 Seconds

30 Jan 2014, 10:16 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / As most of you know, the petrolheads in the land down under aren't very different to the ones in the land of the free, with most of their racing competitions and types of cars revolving around ...

 
Stock E 63 AMG S-Model Does The Quarter Mile in 11.88 Seconds
Stock E 63 AMG S-Model Does The Quarter Mile in 11.88 Seconds

29 Jan 2014, 14:45 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / When Mercedes-Benz took the decision to fit every single E 63 AMG sold in the United States with 4Matic all-wheel drive in standard, many people complained about the future lack of sideways action f...

 
Stock CLA 45 AMG Runs The 1/8 Mile in 8 Seconds
Stock CLA 45 AMG Runs The 1/8 Mile in 8 Seconds

28 Jan 2014, 19:31 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / The Mercedes-Benz CLA 45 AMG is a bit of a peculiar model in the current AMG lineup, and for more than just a couple of reasons. First of all, it is the cheapest AMG model you can buy in the Unit...

 
John Force Races Daughter Brittany for the First Time
John Force Races Daughter Brittany for the First Time

20 Jan 2014, 14:38 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / When talking about family racing tradition, we can’t help but think about four-time Indy 500 winner Al Unser, whose sons, Al Jr and Bobby, have also won America’s famed 500-mile race. ...

 
First 2014 COPO Camaro Raises $700,000 for Charity
First 2014 COPO Camaro Raises $700,000 for Charity

18 Jan 2014, 10:14 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The first production 2014 COPO Camaro drag car, one of the only 69 that will be sold this year, was auctioned off for $700,000 at Barrett-Jackson's Scottsdale sale event yesterday. All proceeds...

 
2002 Mustang Gets Supercharged Coyote, Pulls 9-second Quarter Mile
2002 Mustang Gets Supercharged Coyote, Pulls 9-second Quarter Mile

17 Jan 2014, 13:39 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / While we’re busy talking about the redesigned 2015 Ford Mustang, a lot of people out there are still having fun with their Fox Body and SN-95 ponies. On the drag strip that is! The ‘S...

 
Nissan GT-R vs. Classic Musclecars Street Racing
Nissan GT-R vs. Classic Musclecars Street Racing

10 Jan 2014, 09:59 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The Nissan GT-R is one of 2014’s hottest supercars, especially after setting a (controversial) 7:08 Nurburgring lap time. Basically a computer on wheels, the GT-R can take on just about any ve...

 
This Chevrolet Blazer Is a Rocket on Wheels
This Chevrolet Blazer Is a Rocket on Wheels

27 Dec 2013, 17:09 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / No longer available in the United States, as it was discontinued back in 2005, the Chevrolet Blazer is still alive and kicking thanks to a bunch of SUV enthusiasts. While most of them are still b...

 
C 63 AMG Stage 2 by Weistec Does The Quarter in 10.7 Seconds
C 63 AMG Stage 2 by Weistec Does The Quarter in 10.7 Seconds

27 Dec 2013, 14:30 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / First and foremost, let us remind you that the following Mercedes-Benz C 63 AMG is a daily driver that came under its own power to the drag strip and not a trailer. We say “remind” b...

 
New Turbo Doorslammer Record: Camaro 3.6s 1/8 Mile Run
New Turbo Doorslammer Record: Camaro 3.6s 1/8 Mile Run

18 Dec 2013, 10:44 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The year may be about to end, but it seems that there’s always a good time for records to fall. The latest example of this kind comes in the form of the adjacent video, which shows a Turbo Pr...

 
How to Launch a 2013 SRT Viper: First 10s Stock Quarter Mile Run
How to Launch a 2013 SRT Viper: First 10s Stock Quarter Mile Run

17 Dec 2013, 13:49 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / People have been trying to squeeze every drop of performance out of the 2013 SRT Viper on the drag strip ever since the vehicle was launched. Now, we have the first stock unit managing to pull a 10s...

 
Drag Race: Jaguar F-Type V8 S Faster Than C6 Corvette
Drag Race: Jaguar F-Type V8 S Faster Than C6 Corvette

13 Dec 2013, 11:51 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Lots of letters and numbers in that title, I know. But since these are two of the most iconic cars of the auto industry I'm sure you guys grasp the significance of this V8 on V8 track battle. A...

 
This Mazda RX-7 Has an Engine the Size of its Turbo
This Mazda RX-7 Has an Engine the Size of its Turbo

13 Dec 2013, 09:14 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / While Mazda may or may not bring us a new rotary engine anytime soon, people out there love playing with Wankels and the latest example of this comes from the adjacent clip, showing an RX-7 with an ...

 
Camaro on Nitrous Races K20 Turbo Civic
Camaro on Nitrous Races K20 Turbo Civic

12 Dec 2013, 12:44 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / This one is a classic folks, we’ve got a Camaro racing a pumped-up Civic. The video below brings us to the street, where we are shown a confrontation between American muscle and the JDM world....

 
RENNtech-Tuned E 63 AMG 4Matic Runs 11s on The Drag Strip
RENNtech-Tuned E 63 AMG 4Matic Runs 11s on The Drag Strip

9 Dec 2013, 17:20 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / When AMG announced that the E 63 AMG and CLS 63 AMG facelift will only come with 4Matic all-wheel drive on the US market, there were plenty of voices arguing about how the known wow-factor given by ...

 
This 10-second Cadillac CTS-V Wagon Ain't No Fancy Grocery Getter
This 10-second Cadillac CTS-V Wagon Ain't No Fancy Grocery Getter

7 Dec 2013, 10:44 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The fact that the Cadillac CTS-V Wagon offers 58 cubic feet of storage is quite impressive, but nothing beats the 556 horsepower this grocery getter is hiding under the hood. No one actually nee...