Epic new video from our man Tanner Foust. As part of his “Street Drift†series, Tanner drifts his TRD Nascar V8-powered Scion TC through the infamous snake section of Mulholland drive. A stretch of Los Angeles road that is steeped in automotive legend and lore. We’re loving the 600+ HP soundtrack… Turn up the volume!
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Check out Formula DRIFT Champion Chris Forsberg’s new TV commercial, its the first ever drifting commercial to air on broadcast TV
Here’s an idea that’s one part skulduggery, one part idiocy and one part ’80s road comedy starring Burt Reynolds.
The story: A gang of drug runners needed to move some product from Argentina to Spain without drawing a lot of attention. Now, you could do the traditional under-cover-of-darkness route, or you could hide in plain sight by stashing your drugs in a car that’s running in one of the world’s most famous races.Â
(Very important disclaimer: that car above is NOT the one the drug-runners used. That’s BMW’s Stephane Peterhansel and Jean Paul Cottret of France.)
Here’s how it went down. This crew of unconventional drug runners … Details
For the broadest automotive experience before your dirt nap, Car and Driver Magazine suggests these 10
Arguments are frequent in our office, and sometimes they even have to do with cars. On topics such as comparison-test winners, 10Best, and the proper way to brew a pot of French roast, our wide range of opinions and preferences quickly outstrips our civility, and whittling down the list for this story came close to inciting a riot. In this year alone, there are more than 400 vehicles available in the U.S., so to sift all of global automotive history down to 10 great cars to drive before you die was a momentous task. No doubt some of your favorites didn’t make the list. We sympathize. Some staff members still aren’t speaking to one another.Â
Ultimately, we settled on the cars below because they are the best representations of their respective eras in automotive development, the purest distillation of what we consider to be necessary automotive traits, and because these 10 would provide a person a broad and comprehensive overview of automotive history. And our readers settled on the 11th car thanks to members of the  … Details