Variety is the spice of life, and it is much the same when it comes to cars. So you can imagine what a sight it was to see such a wide mix of rides shooting down the drag strip at the Motor Head magazine Zero-Yon even at the Fukushima Sky Park airstrip. Like we saw earlier [...]
The nirvana that is the Goodwood Festival Of Speed doesn’t get bigger every year so much as even more spectacular. That’s a good thing too: the event reached maximum capacity for any car-fan’s brain to take many years ago… Now four day’s long, that’s still not really enough to take the whole Festival in – [...]
Obsession can be both a blessing and a curse, but it’s often a beautiful thing. When it comes to cars, there is a huge gamut between the machine-assembly-line-mass-produced-transportation-appliances and uniquely-hand-assembled-masterpieces. Petrol heads are quick to spot the details, the way every panel fits, the tactile quality of fine interior materials or the exhaust note of [...]
Part three of the 86-X build story had ended with me arriving in New Jersey for Formula Drift Round 4. Qualifying in third, we started off the event strong, but with the help of a drivetrain failure in the final turn of our Top 16 battles we ended our competition weekend early.
As the month of June winds down, we wanted to use this week’s poll to ask the Speedhunters audience which one this month’s car features was their favorite.
With some brilliant machines presented from around the world this month, it won’t be an easy choice.
For a refresher, we’ve added links to all the month’s feature cars below.
Another great week packed with some excellent Speedhunting. Loving the energy on the site at the moment. So to dial us all squarely into the weekend we are pleased to announce the theme for this week’s “Speedhunting Weekend”. One thing we’re really enjoying lately is seeing all of your own cars. So let’s go back [...]
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We try to showcase as many of the world’s mouth-watering car builds as we can here on Speedhunters, and sometimes end up digging quite deep to find them. Occasionally though comes a project that is completely mind blowing. A “viral” build if you will.
This particular build is one that’s already gained quite a bit of attention on the net recently, but there was no way we couldn’t share this one.
In the days before Formula D New Jersey Vaughn Gittin JR was nice enough to let me into his Maryland home for a night, and being the nosy Speedhunter that I am, I decided to do a little piece on his house. As soon as I arrived at JR’s, I found this beat up Suby. [...]
For guys like Ken Block the internet has become a bit of a double edged sword. On one hand it’s the place where a string of well-executed video clips have helped make him the global sensation he is, and opened the doors to new adventures. On the other hand – and for reasons that escape [...]
“Variety is the spice of life” or so the saying goes, and who am I to disagree? However, as much as we all like the occasional change of pace, we certainly have our favorites. Whether it’s sneakers, beverages or (of course) cars, we each have an affinity towards certain brands that we often can’t explain. [...]
Some time back in April I had the chance to sample “the last of the trio” if you will, referring obviously to the Toyota 86, the Scion FR-S and the BRZ. Having spent quite a lot of time behind the wheel of Toyota versions of the car, including a fun afternoon in a TRD 86, [...]
Hey, Speedhunters! Time for another update on the 86. The excitement is really starting to build and the finish line is in sight. As we are leaving the outside the same colour as last year all the panels just need to be re-fitted once the chassis is complete. It doesn’t look much like a car right now, but the exterior will come together very quickly.
Want to get an idea of what it’s like to go from birth to the starting grid of Monaco Grand Prix in less than two minutes?
Check out this amazing piece that was aired as part of BBC’s coverage of the Monaco GP a few weeks back.
It’s one of the most memorable motorsports related clips I’ve seen in a long time.
-Mike
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It’s Thursday, and that means it’s almost time for the weekend. It also means that it’s time for our second Thursday Shoutout, thwe new weekly post to give some love to the cars and projects of the Speedhunters readers from around the world.
Here are some of the highlights from our recent batch of submissions.
Time for an update on the D-Mac86. We are a bit late with these so we will be bringing you two updates close together. First off a quick update on parts and paint with a new colour for the chassis that I hope you all prefer to the white we used on the 2011 build. Above you can see our new dry sump pump and alternator bracket which will make the engine bay much neater rather than have the top mount alternator like on a stock rotary. We will take a more detailed look at the bracket later…
