Grassroots Upset At The 2011 RallyCar Sno*Drift Rally

Grassroots Upset At The 2011 RallyCar Sno*Drift Rally »

More than living up to its name, Sno*Drift Rally is the only winter rally on ...
Inside The New 2011 Ford Fiesta RS WRC [Specs]

Inside The New 2011 Ford Fiesta RS WRC [Specs] »

Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team recently debuted the Fiesta RS World Rally Car. The ...
Inside The Mini Countryman WRC [SPECS]

Inside The Mini Countryman WRC [SPECS] »

Based on the production Mini Countryman, the MINI WRC is a 1.6-liter turbocharged, all-wheel drive ...
Inside The Borg Warner EFR Turbocharger

Inside The Borg Warner EFR Turbocharger »

Borg Warner fashions the EFR turbine housing out of cast stainless steel, a material that ...
Dyno Test – 13whp In A Bottle – RSR RAN UP Oil Additive

Dyno Test – 13whp In A Bottle – RSR RAN UP Oil Additive »

As RSR tells it, nano technology is basically a dispersion of certain elements to a ...
Porsche Debuts 563hp 918 RSR Concept

Porsche Debuts 563hp 918 RSR Concept »

Powering the 918 RSR Concept is an “updated” 563hp, 10,300RPM V8 engine, based on the ...
Articles about “wrc”
Inside The New 2011 Ford Fiesta RS WRC [Specs]

Inside The New 2011 Ford Fiesta RS WRC [Specs]

Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team recently debuted the Fiesta RS World Rally Car. The biggest change is the new 1.6-liter turbo engine, which produces 300hp and 332 lb/ft of torque.

November 1st, 2011 | Filed under Featured, Tuned Cars | Read More »

2011 Ford Fiesta RS WRC Ready for Debut

2011 Ford Fiesta RS WRC Ready for Debut

Ford’s newest World Rally Championship (WRC) competitor, the 1.6-liter turbo Fiesta RS, is set to debut this week with FIA homologation approval. Ford WRC drivers Mikko Hirvonen and Jari-Matti Latvala will enter the Fiesta RS in its first WRC round in early February, Rally Sweden.

October 29th, 2011 | Filed under Motorsports | Read More »

Inside The Mini Countryman WRC [SPECS]

Inside The Mini Countryman WRC [SPECS]

Based on the production Mini Countryman, the MINI WRC is a 1.6-liter turbocharged, all-wheel drive rally car. Prodrive is also responsible for the custom valving, specs, and setup of each Ohlins 3-way damper setup.

October 26th, 2011 | Filed under Featured, Tuned Cars | Read More »

2011 Ford Fiesta RS WRC Debuts

2011 Ford Fiesta RS WRC Debuts

Ford reports that the full spec on the Fiesta RS will be released at the beginning of February. Testing will continue in Sweden next week ahead of the Fiesta RS WRC’s championship debut in Rally Sweden

January 13th, 2011 | Filed under Featured, Tuned Cars | Read More »

Rally Nissan 350Z Donut Burnout

Rally Nissan 350Z Donut Burnout

J-WRC Abbring chose to do donuts around his team using his bio-methanol 300hp near stock Z rally car.

December 30th, 2010 | Filed under Videos | Read More »

Top 10 Biggest Motorsport Milestones Of 2010

Top 10 Biggest Motorsport Milestones Of 2010

From F1 to Audi to Pikes Peak to rally racing, we pick some of the most important motorsport moments, highlights, and events in 2010.

December 27th, 2010 | Filed under Featured, Motorsports | Read More »

2012 Ford Focus ST Turbo

2012 Ford Focus ST Turbo

With 247hp, a six-speed transmission, Recardo seats, big brakes, a new body, and a global platform, the 2012 Ford Focus ST had the booth abuzz at the 2010 Los Angeles Auto Show.

December 1st, 2010 | Filed under Videos | Read More »

Suzuki SX4 Is Top Gear USA’s Reasonably Priced Car

Suzuki SX4 Is Top Gear USA’s Reasonably Priced Car

We recently had the opportunity to attend a taping of Top Gear, which will debut on the History Channel in November. The production value in the shooting is Top Gear high, more clear and beautifully shot than anything else on American TV.

October 20th, 2010 | Filed under New Cars | Read More »

Ken Block’s Gymkhana 3 Video – In France?

Ken Block’s Gymkhana 3 Video – In France?

For the third video, Block takes on L’Autodrome de Linas-Montlhery in France, which has a distinctively European feel to it and some massive banking. Block even demonstrates the banking’s steep 51-degree incline by standing on his Fiesta at an angle.

September 17th, 2010 | Filed under Featured, Tuned Cars | Read More »

Mini Countryman WRC Tests Without Breaking

Mini Countryman WRC Tests Without Breaking

Taking place over four days, the Prodrive engineering team drove the car over tarmac, dirt, and other loose surfaces. The Countryman World Rally Car is now scheduled to go to Portugal for a week of gravel testing.

September 10th, 2010 | Filed under Blogs | Read More »

Toyota History Garage – The Dream Museum

Toyota History Garage – The Dream Museum

The History Garage museum is designed to honor production cars from the 1950s through the 1970s, as well as past racing machines. The Corolla WRC car and GT-One Le Mans car are rare sights at any museum.

August 18th, 2010 | Filed under Featured, Tuned Cars | Read More »

Ken Block’s Gymkhana Grid Invades Hollywood Park

Ken Block’s Gymkhana Grid Invades Hollywood Park

With millions upon millions of views online, the gymkhana stunt videos from rally racer Ken Block have put the sport’s name on everybody’s mind. While it may have been the case that gymkhana was a mystery to American gearheads just a few years ago, it’s out of the shadows now.

August 9th, 2010 | Filed under Featured, Tuned Cars | Read More »

Mini To Enter 2011 World Rally Championship With Countryman WRC

Mini To Enter 2011 World Rally Championship With Countryman WRC

Mini will be using the longer Countryman model to build the Mini Countryman WRC. Famed racing engineering house Prodrive will handle the program, now left twiddling their thumbs with no factory Subaru WRC program to manage.

July 27th, 2010 | Filed under Featured, Tuned Cars | Read More »

Ford And Latvala Win 2010 WRC Rally New Zealand

Ford And Latvala Win 2010 WRC Rally New Zealand

Jari-Matti Latvala and Miikka Anttila made FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) history by securing the record 75th win for the Ford Motor Company in Rally New Zealand.

May 10th, 2010 | Filed under Motorsports | Read More »

2009 WRC Ford Focus RS

2009 WRC Ford Focus RS

World Rally Championship WRC-class cars are turbocharged, all-wheel drive, anti-lag popping machines that are driven on almost every imagineable surface. So when we came across this gallery of images in Ford Racing’s depository, we knew that we had to share them with you. Enjoy.

April 22nd, 2009 | Filed under Tuned Cars | Read More »

2008 WRC Rally New Zealand Highlights

2008 WRC Rally New Zealand Highlights

April 15th, 2009 | Filed under Videos | Read More »

WRC Ford Focus Rally Slide Munchi’s

WRC Ford Focus Rally Slide Munchi’s

April 15th, 2009 | Filed under Videos | Read More »

WRC Ford Focus Dirt Slide Hirvonen

WRC Ford Focus Dirt Slide Hirvonen

April 15th, 2009 | Filed under Videos | Read More »

WRC Ford Focus Dirt Rally Slide Solberg

WRC Ford Focus Dirt Rally Slide Solberg

April 15th, 2009 | Filed under Videos | Read More »

Loeb’s WRC Citroen Xsara Rally Car

Loeb’s WRC Citroen Xsara Rally Car

April 15th, 2009 | Filed under Videos | Read More »