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 “wrx sti”
Released – Tomei Titanium Exhaust for 02-07 Subaru WRX/STI

Released – Tomei Titanium Exhaust for 02-07 Subaru WRX/STI

Tomei has released its latest titanium exhaust system, this time for the 2002-2007 GDB-chassis Subaru Impreza WRX and WRX STI. The exhaust carries a MSRP of $1,390 in the US and is a complete exhaust.

November 5th, 2011 | Filed under New Parts | Read More »

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 the RallyCar calendar and sees ambient temperatures as low as 0-degrees during night stages.

November 3rd, 2011 | Filed under Featured, Motorsports | Read More »

Top 10 Cars From The 2011 RallyCar SnoDrift Rally

Top 10 Cars From The 2011 RallyCar SnoDrift Rally

From Prelude to STI, we gather up 10 of the most interesting cars to have shown their faces at the 2011 RallyCar Sno*Drift rally in Atlanta, Michigan.

October 25th, 2011 | Filed under Tuned Cars | Read More »

RH9 Marche Subaru Impreza WRX STI at 2011 Tokyo Auto Salon

RH9 Marche Subaru Impreza WRX STI at 2011 Tokyo Auto Salon

Retaining the Japan-spec EJ20 2.0-liter engine, instead of switching to the overseas 2.5-liter bottom-end, Marche tuned the power level to more than 500hp by raiding the HKS parts catalog.

January 19th, 2011 | Filed under Tuned Cars | Read More »

Top 10 Cars Of Gymkhana Grid

Top 10 Cars Of Gymkhana Grid

Filled with 500-600hp cars, Gymkhana Grid had more than a few nicely built competitors. Here are just 10 of our picks from the crowd.

December 10th, 2010 | Filed under Featured, Tuned Cars | Read More »

Ken Block’s Kickass Ford Fiesta Birthday Cake

Ken Block’s Kickass Ford Fiesta Birthday Cake

What do you do when you’re multi-million-view Internet famous, successful, and one year older? In Ken Block’s case, you throw a party and geta custom Ford Fiesta cake from your friends.

November 24th, 2010 | Filed under Blogs | Read More »

Cars of the 2010 Super Lap Battle Time Attack

Cars of the 2010 Super Lap Battle Time Attack

Held once a year, the invite-only Super Lap Battle time attack event is the VIP track day where lap records are always guaranteed to fall. This year was no different. Sierra Sierra Enterprises’ Lancer Evolution VIII officially beat the HKS Evo for the overall top time with a blistering 1:41.046.

November 11th, 2010 | Filed under Featured, Motorsports | Read More »

Inside the Tomei Cusco Subaru Impreza WRX STI

Inside the Tomei Cusco Subaru Impreza WRX STI

One of the fastest production based Subaru Imprezas is the Tomei/Cusco/Voltex time attack racecar. Its speed is also impressive, consistently running at the front of time attack events against cars with 600-700hp.

October 19th, 2010 | Filed under Featured, Tuned 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 »

Different World – All Japan Gymkhana Evo

Different World – All Japan Gymkhana Evo

Take a closer look at the Cusco All-Japan Gymkhana Championship Lancer Evolution. It’s immediately obvious that their style of gymkhana is different from ours. While ours is all about entertainment, big smoke, drifts, and staying sideways, the Japanese form looks like pure autocross with a couple smoke-less spin turns thrown in.

August 11th, 2010 | Filed under Blogs | Read More »

Ken Block On Gymkhana Grid And His New Ford Fiesta

Ken Block On Gymkhana Grid And His New Ford Fiesta

We speak with rally driver Ken Block and drifter Kyle Mohan about the upcoming Gymkhana Grid race series. Part autocross, part drifting – entries include Subaru WRX STI, Ford Fiesta, Nissan 350Z, 240SX, and Mitsubishi Evo.

August 9th, 2010 | Filed under Videos | 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 »

Foust Wins First Ever X Games Super Rally With Ford Fiesta

Foust Wins First Ever X Games Super Rally With Ford Fiesta

Competition whittled down to the final four: Foust, Deegan, X-Games rookie Samuel Hubinette, and Subaru drifter/rally racer Stephan Verdier. As the four cars lined up at the top of the Coliseum, anticipation was high for a thrilling race.

August 2nd, 2010 | Filed under Featured, Tuned Cars | Read More »

Tanner Foust Wins 2010 X Games 16 Rally Race Gold

Tanner Foust Wins 2010 X Games 16 Rally Race Gold

With TV bragging rights on the line and no standardized rulebook to worry about, most of the turbocharged, all-wheel drive cars were making near 600hp.

August 1st, 2010 | Filed under Featured, Motorsports | Read More »

X-Games Can Save American Rally Racing

X-Games Can Save American Rally Racing

Mother Nature is actually out to puncture and flip your rally car but that’s just part of the fun. So, how come rally racing isn’t as big as NASCAR in the US?

July 27th, 2010 | Filed under Blogs | Read More »

Trackside With Grassroots Subaru Driver Thomas Smith [VIDEO]

Trackside With Grassroots Subaru Driver Thomas Smith [VIDEO]

At a bare minimum, you need talent and money to get noticed and climb the ranks. Thomas Smith, a Las Vegas, Nevada go-kart and autocross racer, has been paying his dues towards a road racing career by cutting his teeth at local time attack events.

July 23rd, 2010 | Filed under Featured, Tuned Cars | Read More »

Zenkai Crawford Subaru STI driver Thomas Smith

Zenkai Crawford Subaru STI driver Thomas Smith

We take a minute at Buttonwillow Raceway to have a quick chat with Thomas Smith, up and coming grassroots time attack and autocross driver for Crawford Performance / Zenkai Motorsports.

July 23rd, 2010 | Filed under Videos | Read More »

Australian Rally Driver Steve Glenney At WTAC

Australian Rally Driver Steve Glenney At WTAC

Glenney has just raced the Targa Tasmania in the Mazda RX-8 SP turbo rally car. Now he’s at Eastern Creek Raceway, driving the Pulse Racing Lancer Evo 8, Subaru Impreza WRX STI, and GT Auto Garage Mazda RX-7.

July 19th, 2010 | Filed under Videos | Read More »

World Time Attack Challenge 2010 – Behind The Scenes

World Time Attack Challenge 2010 – Behind The Scenes

Held at Eastern Creek Raceway, less than a half hour drive out of Sydney, the WTAC was one of the first international time attack events, drawing in competitors from the US, Australia, and Japan.

July 16th, 2010 | Filed under Featured, Tuned Cars | Read More »

Track Test – AQ Motorsports 650hp Time Attack Subaru WRX STI

Track Test – AQ Motorsports 650hp Time Attack Subaru WRX STI

After seeing the numbers, we have no doubts about the capability of the 650whp 2.6L AQ engine. A whopping 20mph difference separates the two cars on each straight.

July 15th, 2010 | Filed under Featured, Tuned Cars | Read More »