Mazzanti is just weeks away from unveiling its Project EV-R. The car is a more extreme version of the company’s Evantra supercar and promises to be the fastest, most powerful car out of Italy. In its latest teaser, Mazzanti has revealed that the EV-R has a targeted top speed of 250 mph. That’s a higher top speed than the Ferrari...
Audi has confirmed its new A5 will debut on June 2. The debut will be the culmination of a six-day light show at the Audi Forum in the automaker’s hometown of Ingolstadt, Germany. The second-generation model has been spied testing in prototype form on numerous occasions and in its three bodystyles (coupe, convertible and hatchback). Only the...
If your car retailed for well over a million dollars you’d want only the best treatment for it, right? Well, not the owner of this Bugatti Veyron who appears to have no qualms driving through an automatic car wash. It’s painful watching the process in this video, which was dug up on YouTube by duPont Registry. We can’t imagine...
Aston Martin recently partnered with the Red Bull Racing Formula One team to develop a new hypercar. The car, code-named the AM-RB 001, will start deliveries in 2018 and only 99 examples will be built. Autocar recently sat down with the car’s two main designers, Aston Martin Design Director Marek Reichman and Red Bull Racing Chief Technical...
The future of diesel engines in the United States and possibly elsewhere is in doubt as a result of ongoing emissions cheating scandals, but automakers aren’t giving up on the technology just yet. At the recent 2016 Vienna Motor Symposium, BMW presented a quad-turbocharged 3.0-liter inline-6 diesel engine delivering 394 horsepower and 561...
Mercedes AMG’s Nico Rosberg secured his fourth win of the season and seventh in succession following the conclusion of the 2016 Formula One Russian Grand Prix on Sunday. He started the race at pole and led until the finish, setting the fastest lap in the process. Rosberg’s teammate Lewis Hamilton completed a one-two finish for the...
What do you get when you cross a fighter jet with Goodyear rubber and tiny cockpit? You get a jet dragster that could quite literally take flight if it had wings. In this video, we see the Fifty Cal jet dragster making a run during test and tune night at RT66 back in September of 2014.
It’s hard to say much without ruining the video, but to put things simply, the dragster manages to run a quarter mile in less than six seconds and hits more than 300 mph. Can you imagine what that must feel like? Surely, there aren’t that many people who have crossed that barrier on four wheels. If only we could convince the driver to mount a GoPro on his helmet – now that would be a video to see, considering none of us will ever do the deed ourselves.
The video itself is just over four minutes long, with the highlight coming in the last few seconds of the video. That said, I suggest you watch the whole thing anyway. Just firing up one of these jet engines is a task, and it’s pretty interesting to see how the car is prepared and staged before the man inside tests his manhood as he almost instantly jumps to 300 mph. Fair warning: Jet engines are loud and create quite a whistle, so you might want to turn down the volume and adjust it after you hit play. The frequency alone could damage some speakers if cranked to high, and it’ll make your dogs go crazy. So, hit play and enjoy the video.
