• Dirt flies as Toyota Yaris preps for WRC season

    Toyota’s Gazoo motorsport division is competing on several world stages including the Dakar rally and the World Endurance Championship yet its latest target is to enter the World Rally Championship in 2017. The Toyota Yaris WRC has already completed 5000km of testing. “We have completed a lot of test sessions since...
  • Video: Hyundai N-Sport makes WRC-type noise

    Hyundai’s involvement in WRC is paying dividends – if this poppy, fizzy clip of the new performance arm, N-Sport, is close to the truth. The first Hyundai N-Sport model will be based on the i30 hatchback will have a turbo charged 4-cylinder with 0-100km/h in less than seven seconds. After...
  • Watch active aero at work on new Ford GT

    Active aero. We know it as wings that go from a neutral position to a more vertical degree as speed increases but until now we’ve never seen their effect in a wind tunnel. This latest video shows their downforce-altering impact on the latest Ford GT – the same car that won...
  • Video: Dumb stuff people do in autonomous cars

    What’s the craziest thing you’ve done in an autonomous car? A facebook post, Tinder profiling or snap a few selfies? Here’s a  collection of Tesla owners doing slightly more outrageous acts, ranging from playing Jenga to sleeping. Not all go to plan and we could be witnessing the most irresponsible period...
  • Video: World’s fastest drone battles GTR

    It takes a tech-mad car to require a tech-mad drone – one that’s capable of keeping up with the GTR’s enormous grip and violent acceleration. This drone was built by World Drone Grand Prix Champions and can accelerate to 100km/h in 1.3 seconds compared to the Nissan’s time of 2.9 seconds...
  • Goodwood: Buckle up in Bugatti’s Chiron

    The internet is buzzing with scenesfrom Goodwood Festival of Speed but this on-board footage of Bugatti’s ludicrous Chiron (being far too much car for the hill’s slither of tarmac) is among the highlights. Despite confined to low rpm and the first few gears, it’s about the closest the mere...
  • Video: Get inside the mind of an F1 driver

    Ask Vettel about looking deep into corners…the 4-time world champion missed his braking point at the Canadian Grand Prix after spotting two seagulls bravely standing in his path. Before now though an F1 driver’s reactions and eye movement could never be accurately measured – seagulls excluded – but new technology...
  • Video: Spike strips you can’t run from

    Spike strips. If you played Need for Speed you’ll know all about them and how to dodge them. Lethal things to anything filled with air, spike strips have one major drawback and that’s the time they take to be laid out, not to mention picking the right location. These...
  • Video: Ford’s latest GT40 video falls on Le Mans success

    If you read Ford’s latest press release, you might believe that it won Le Mans…overall What the headline purposefully doesn’t mention is that the GT40 won GTE-Pro category. Still this is a laudable achievement on the company’s return to Le Mans, edging the Ferrari 488 after 24 hours of...