Video Automobile Rally Car – Being Ken Block – ESPN Special highlight of Ken Block: Master of the gymkhana…. Co’founder of DC Shoes… All Around Fun Guy. Check it. It’s pretty impressive.
Recently we established that fun can be found for $4,999 or less. Then we proved that greatness can be yours for less than $9,999.
Well, now it’s time to buy some awesome. And awesome is available for less than $20,000. Awesome as in cars that, just a few years ago, were considered some of the very finest performance machines in the world. Badass automobiles with legendary names like Boxster, Evo, M3, STI and Z06, for less than half the cost of a loaded Ford Taurus.
Because this price point is pretty lofty, we left out any vehicle more than a decade old or anything you’re likely to have rented at an airport. So no 20-year-old 911s here and no surplus Mercury Sables rescued from the Hertz auction. This is undeniably a list of enthusiast cars, real performance machines, but it’s also a list of rides that can be driven every day. Each and every one would make you an acceptable commuter…Â Details
There’s something endearingly quixotic – and awfully English – about the British Steam Car Challenge. The team has spent the last ten years trying to successfully marry Victorian-age transport with modern technology in an effort break a 100-year-old steam land speed record. And, on Friday August 7 at Edwards Air Force base in California, they finally beat that world record speed with a run of 131mph – but because the FIA wasn’t present, it’s not yet official.
Dubbed ‘the fastest kettle in the world’, the 25-foot British Steam Car is designed not just to break records, but also to reinforce the viability of non-internal combustion engines. Because it’s an external combustion engine, it isn’t fuel specific and produces far fewer harmful emissions.
The ATV racing season was fully underway. It was Round 4 of 13 to be held in the Grand National Cross Country series, last April 4th and 5th, and I couldn’t believe I was finally going to witness this most spectacular form of quad racing in the sport ATV world. I have many times wished to be among those courageous enough to attack the coveted holeshot at the many MX tracks I’ve been at up here in Canada. Here, I wouldn’t even fathom the idea of going just once around this monstrous track. I was glad to be a mere spectator of this amazing display of courage that was this grueling 3-hour race at the famed Big Buck track, where all classes, meaning hundreds of riders and race machines of many types, invade the huge track littered with just about any kind of obstacle you can think of, all at the same time!
Only 30 seconds separates every class start, which makes for the most spectacular race starts one can ever witness. The call to fire-up is given and the instant response to it rumbles …Â Details & lots of Pictures
