Two of the hottest vehicles GM ever made, the new Chevrolet Corvette and Cadillac CTS-V, touched elbows at the Showtime Speedway in Florida to prove which one is faster in a straight-line acceleration. The super sedan, which used to roll with the BMW M5 and Mercedes-AMG E63, is more powerful than its younger and sparkier […]
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Back in the good ol’ days, BMW went to great extents to fit its famous straight-six engine on most of its vehicles, and this applied to their smallest model, the 1-Series compact hatchback. The range-topping version of the car, the M140i, came with a 3.0-liter six-pot, developing 340 PS (335 HP / 250 kW) and […]
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For a few years now, the Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk has been one of the most accelerative SUVs on the market, capable of speeds that truly boggle the mind. Surely a BMW X4 M Competition can’t keep up? Cars magazine in South Africa recently lined up the duo for a pair of drag races down […]
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If you had to choose between owning a Tesla Model 3 Performance or a 2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, which would you pick? Of course, these two are not rivals and appeal to different shoppers but, as this video shows, they offer similar bang-for-your-buck performance. The Corvette featured in this clip from DragTimes is owned by […]
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The Ford F-150 is one of America’s most best-selling vehicles and loved all across the country. However, it’s not one known for being particularly fast or thrilling to drive, at least not in non-Raptor guise. This example is a little different. The F-150 in question comes from Lund Racing and is owned by Bryan Luna. […]
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Any BMW with a full-blown M badge is -usually- a proper driver’s car, but if you are looking for the ultimate one, on which end of the scale should you look at? Is it at the ‘bottom’, where the M2 Competition is found, or at the top, where the M8 has already started laying on […]
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Two of the fastest SUVs of the moment, the Lamborghini Urus and Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk, met at the drag strip to settle their differences in a 1,000m (0.62-mile) acceleration test. We will get to the ‘which one was quicker’ part in a few moments, but first, we have to remind ourselves that in the […]
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If you’re a drag racing fan with a need for speed, we may have found the perfect car for you; a modified 1995 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 drag racer capable of neck-snapping acceleration. The car, currently up for auction on Bring A Trailer, has been overhauled for racing and is about as far from street legal […]
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Carlyle Racing’s new-gen Chevrolet Corvette C8 continues turning heads at the drag strip, as after it raced the Toyota Supra and Ford Mustang Shelby GT500, it was filmed again going flat-out against the clock. The bowtie brand revealed an official 11.2 seconds required to run the quarter mile, at 121 mph (195 km/h), and as […]
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The world of super-fast sedans has never been this rich, as by now, almost every major player has one or more vehicles of the sort in their lineup. In this story, we’ll put the spotlight on two very different performers, the Mercedes-AMG GT 63 S and Tesla Model 3 Performance. Both of them have four […]
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