Car Throttle

They go hard in Russia.  No joke,  racing in Russia is serious business.  Some might say that in Russia, racing drives you.  Anyway, if you haven't heard of the Moscow Unlimited 500, you need to check out this YouTube video.  It's 47 minutes long and you can watch it in HD - I recommend some earphones so you can really hear the cars.

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It's a mile-long drag race held about 50 kilometers northwest of Moscow, and only a limited number of participants are invited - general guidelines being at least 500bhp and the ability to do 300km/h (186mph) in the standing mile.  So everything from Koenigseggs to Ram SRT-10's show up.  A driver in a fully race-prepped Evo set a record time

That's German for "Driving on the Nürburgring in snow."  There are some things that you just don't imagine happening.  Like American football (excuse me, Hand-Egg) becoming popular in Europe, or McDonalds selling malt liquor (actually, that might work.)  Taking on the world's most complicated, difficult road course at speed in the snow?  That's retarded, who would do that?

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Apparently Andy Gülden would, and in a Formula car no less.  Gülden is the Nurburgring Driving Academy's chief instructor, and evidently a quite talented one.  Watching him pilot this open-wheeled car shod with wicked snow tires on the Nordschliefe and Grand Prix track is a trip.  I have to wonder though, when it's -16°C out (3°F) how cold do you get driving the

There's a long precedent of rappers referencing cars in their songs.  It's part of the baller lifestyle: huge house, lots of skeezy women, and a gold-plated Range Rover with 38" gold-plated wheels.  Since rap these days is all about conspicuous consumption, it's part and parcel. But as much as we like seeing Jay-Z and Kanye cut the doors off a Maybach, weld sheet metal fenders on it, and drift it around an industrial parking lot, there's something amusing about local rappers laying down a track about... their Volvo.  Awww, hell yeah son!

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The above video is by Seattle-area rapper Grynch, and I actually kinda like the song.  I mean, not just because I'm partial to ancient Volvo station wagons - it's a

In the rankings of current automobiles, the Ferrari 458 is near the top for performance.  It's a seriously fast car.  A combination of engineering, Italian want-factor, and space ship styling puts it on the top of a lot of people's Christmas lists.  Even though it's the "baby" Ferrari, it can smoke 99% of cars on the road.  A 4.5L direct-injected V8 in the middle cranks out 562 horsepower, with a 7-speed twin clutch automated manual banging out shifts at the 9,000rpm redline.  Car & Driver tested a 458 Italia against it's two closest competitors - the McLaren MP4-12C and Porsche 911 GT2 RS, and it put a hurting on their test equipment - 0-60 in 3.0 seconds flat, 0-100 in 6.5, quarter mile in 11.0

What's green, potentially venomous and loves to slide? Okay, so your Car Throttle correspondent still hasn't mastered the set-up of a good one-liner, but the answer as you probably guessed isn't your back-garden adder. No. It is instead Skoda's 2011 Fabia vRS and whilst you might laugh that off from merely glancing at the car, let me explain why you'd be foolish to cast this off as a poor man's Polo GTI. Please allow me to firstly guide you to our video review which is embedded above. If you've been watching enough television, you will have seen Skoda's new attempt to re-market the sweet, made-out-of-cake Fabia using the dulcet tones of one Julie Andrews. The time has come however, for the Fabia to be rebuffed as

Toyota FT-86 Concept, Toyota GT-86, Toyota 86, Scion FR-S, Subaru BRZ - wow has this car had a lot of names or what? There has been wall-to-wall coverage of Toyota's much-anticpated enthusiasts entry. We're sure it is a welcomed change for Toyota, who has mostly endured negative coverage pertaining to recalls, quality issues and well...boring products. In the United States, the car is badged as the Scion FR-S, and it was just revealed in Los Angeles with few changes and a cheapened interior versus its Toyota counterparts. We thought the era of rebadging was over, but apparently Toyota didn't get the memo - there are very few changes between the Toyota, Scion and Subaru models. Now, two new videos have been released from Toyota and

The 2+2 sports coupe segment is one of the most competitive in the auto industry. In the corner of the rings are heavyweights such as the Audi TT and Porsche Carrera, all the way up to cars with undisputed championships belts such as the Ferrari FF. However, a new fighter has emerged from Continental Europe in the form of the Peugeot RCZ. The famous Pug lion is now surrounded by letters, not numbers, and certainly seems to have the styling to boot. With a sleek and low chrome-insert grille all the way around the derriere to the double-bubble roof and twin sports exhaust, from appearances alone it's clear that Peugeot have come out all guns blazing in an attempt to shake up the TT-dominated market. And at

Form67.net makes some of the coolest videos on YouTube.  They mix art and automobiles better than most of the pretentious fish-eye-lens-and-Supra crowd out there.  Their videos are always worth a few minutes of your time. This new one, "Mechanical Synfonica" is pretty awesome as well.  It combines beautiful women, an Audi RS5 and an E92 M3 battling on a mountain road, and a Symphony.  If nothing else, it'll make you smile for five minutes (and four seconds.)  Check it out:

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Not a huge fan of a Rieger body kit on an M3, but the scene where the M3 and the RS5 both pull out of the gravel with wheels spinning more than makes up for it in my eyes.  And the contrast of

Some amazing footage has been seen on the famous video uploading website since it went live in 2005. YouTube contains a vast library of clips ranging from front-line breaking news videos such as natural disasters or serious crime to the most ridiculous content such as a drunk guy being catapulted over a pool by a homemade human slingshot or a cat singing. There are loads of car videos up there too, including those from Car Throttle's YouTube Channel. You could watch someone set a lap time around the Nurburgring or you could watch an 'up close and personal' tour of luxury motors and supercars. Here are 5 YouTube videos I came across that show it is possible for anyone to drive a high performance car nowadays whether they are 5

The Chevrolet Sonic subcompact is launching, and General Motors is readying a large advertising campaign to promote it. GM intends to gear the car to Generation Y (Millenials) who are looking for something affordable but still is cool. S To us, the Sonic definitely seems to be the coolest vehicle in its segment, offering a blend of attractive design and impressive features versus the competition. What it really needs is a sport model, but we digress. Given that it is a new nameplate, awareness needs to be built up. A lot of the Sonic's target market gets information from social media and blogs like us, so why not do something cool to get attention? One of the first ads for Sonic does just that, pushing the