Not sure if this has ever been done before but for this Car Spotlight from the recent Battle Evome event at Tsukuba I'd like to focus on two cars, the Exceed Moat 08A & 07B S14s. These [more...]
Mercedes-Benz zieht ML-Werbung zurueck
Nach heftiger Kritik hat Mercedes-Benz eine Werbeanzeige für die neue M-Klasse zurückgezogen. Unter dem Slogan "Mehr als 200 Pferde und weniger Emissionen als eine Kuh" hatte Mercedes-Benz [...]
Autobatterie: Erste Hilfe fuer schlappe Akkus
GTÜ gibt Tipps für Batteriepflege und richtige Starthilfe Eisige Kälte und vorwiegend Fahrten über kurze Strecken belasten den Stromhaushalt im Auto extrem. Eine [...]
NAIAS2012: Chevrolet Miray Concept
Chevrolet hatte das Miray Concept schon auf der IAA 2011 (und davor auf einer Messe in Korea – daher der Name Miray, was auf Koreanisch 미ë soviel heisst wie [...]
Porsche Museum mit Sonderausstellung Identitaet 911
Seit über 40 Jahren gilt der Porsche 911 als Automobilikone und Sportwagen-Idol. So ist die Einführung des neuen Porsche Typ 991 selbst auch für das Porsche-Museum ein wichtiges [...]
NEWSWORTHY Roegge and Herron 2010 DVD
Will Roegge and Joshua Herron are combining their killer creative talents to produce a DVD about American grassroots drifting, called Keep Drifting Fun! These two filmmakers have upped the ante on [...]
Racing 2025 // Beyond the Boundaries
Our recent post about the hybrid powered Porsche GT3 Cup based endurance racer really made it hit home for me about just the how "real" the current trend towards adopting so-called "Green" technology [...]
Khalid Al-Mudhaf // Kuwait's first racing driver?
I had the pleasure of meeting Mr Khalid Al-Mudhaf a couple of months ago when we both had the pleasure of testing a Ginetta G50 HC together thanks to the guys at www.gulf-sport.com. After a long chat [...]
Tel Moreeb // Scary Mountain // Horsepower Junkies....
This weekend saw the culmination of the 9-day Liwa Festival in Abu Dhabi with a Dune-Drag racing Championship - with highly modified Nissan Patrols packing up to 1500bhp aiming to rocket to the top of [...]
crankandpiston.com // Shot of the day // McLaren testing
I love stuff like this...behind the scenes testing photograhy that really sets the scene. You can imagine the amount of sitting around and tweaking in between high speed runs and arduous testing. I [...]
Qatar International Rally 2010 // The new s2000 rally car
Will be honest here, the last rally I attended was in the UK at a rain soaked, freezing cold stage of what was then the RAC rally. Trudging through the mud, waiting for what seemed like hours just to [...]