This is what cars are all about. While it might only have a 217 hp motor, its weight still teeters around 2000 lbs, making this Lotus pretty quick: 0-60 in 4.4 seconds. This roadster’s as nimble as ever and even gets good gas mileage. Check out Autocar’s full review above.

Okay, okay… unfair headline. WRC is probably the best rally. But amateur rally is damn exciting. It’s always fun to see people who aren’t as skilled on dirt and ice try to go as fast as the professionals. The cars still have a lot of horsepower and fly around like nothing but lack much of the safety equipment and response team, increasing the excitement.Maybe I should just rename the headline to, “Not-quite-WRC rally is still damned exciting”? Ahh screw it, just watch.

Hungarians getting crazy:

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Back in my younger years I was a bit of a trouble maker. I raced on the streets of California and generally acted like an irresponsible kid because well, I was one. I stopped many years ago but around that time I created this compilation video. I forgot I had pieced it together until I found a whole DVD packed full of car videos in my old folder. I’m posting this online for the first time now.

The quality sucks (some of this footage was from 1999 or 2000, and at the latest early 2002) and most of this may not look very exciting, but there’s some pretty fun stuff that reminds me of my early days with cars and as a teenager. I was either driving, filming, or witnessed every video here, and know every person in every clip. For example, my Talon appears quite a bit (it ran mid-13s around this time), including a few passes at the Famoso raceway. There’s one where I’m racing a really loud Honda and I barely nudge it out at the end getting the win light. I was also driving my friend’s black 911 Turbo in the clip against a 13-second Ford Focus.

The very last clip in this video is in-car of my first night at the drag strip. On this run, my boost was higher than it was supposed to be and my upper intake hose blew-off mid-run. The car coasted through the traps and stalled. I thought I had blown up my motor. I echo the words “Something’s dead dude” before the video fades out. Ahh, memories.

Since I made this many years ago the editing quality is not top notch so please don’t hold it against me. Enjoy!

The FXX is essentially an 800 HP, even lighter weight version of the Ferrari Enzo. It’s obviously not something you see in the wild too often (since there are only 30 of them and they cost about 2.5 million dollars), but it’s occasionally seen on tracks.

Listen to this sexy bitch!

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You got a hemi in that thing?

Yes, that’s a hemi V8 powered Model A Ford.

This 1929 is a bit different:

It’s powered by a Cosworth rally 4-cylinder turbo motor and does 0-62 MPH in five seconds flat. There’s a very detailed picture album showing the restoration and build-up of this Model A here.

Behold! A test drive of Lamborghini’s craziest contraption. I say crazy because its style is a few steps beyond anything Lamborghini’s made for decades, which was already quite different than anything preceding it.

Here’s the Top Gear guys drooling over the car, talking about how it was inspired by the F22 Raptor:

Only 20 of these cars are being built (are built?), 11 of which are going to the United States. A 6.5l V12 pumps out 650 HP. More info is available here.