Kurt Bradley
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This Florida Shop Will Give Your Porsche Cayman GT4 an Engine to Beat a 911 GT3
BGB Motorsports will slap a 4.2-liter flat six with more than 500 hp into your 981-generation Cayman GT4 to create a track machine that will embarrass GT3s. → Read More
When You Die and Go to Porsche Heaven It Looks Like This
The air-cooled Porsche cult following is not news to anyone who visits this site, and the Luftgekühlt festival has quickly turned into one of the biggest, most obsessive car shows on the planet. We were there this weekend hanging out taking photos. Here’s even more for your perusal. → Read More
Here Is Your Mega Gallery From IndyCar's First-Ever Race Weekend in Austin
IndyCar finally made its way to Austin, Texas, and gave fans at Circuit of The Americas a damn fine show. Rookie Colton Herta became the youngest winner in series history, we threw a badass party that Mario Andretti came to, and Stadium Super Trucks substantially improved the lives of many. → Read More
The World Is a Better Place Thanks to Stadium Super Trucks
Race cars are boring. Trucks with tons of horsepower, loads of suspension travel, and the ability to take on any surface with ease are the racing machines you didn’t know you needed in your life. Please get acquainted with Stadium Super Trucks. → Read More
The 2019 Acura MDX A-Spec May Be Barely Sporty but It's Pleasantly Sophisticated
The 2019 Acura MDX A-Spec sounds sporty, but don’t get your hopes up for Porsche Cayenne-pushing performance. It’s an aesthetic treatment. That doesn’t mean the MDX isn’t nice to drive, though. And I should know—I put about 2,000 miles on this vehicle cruising all over Texas. → Read More
Here Is Your 2019 24 Hours Of Daytona Mega Gallery
The 24 Hours at Daytona every January is the first, the longest, the most brutal round that IMSA faces all season. A strong qualifying and practice result means nothing at twice-onto-the-bank road course when you battle against over 50 competitors across four classes. Even the best predictions usually come up short. → Read More
The 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 Feels Like a Rocket Assembled by the Lowest Bidder
Lately in the world of fast Chevrolets, it’s the long-awaited but still mysterious mid-engine Corvette that’s captured everyone’s attention. While there’s still a ton we don’t know, it’s slated to be the true exotic-killer the ‘Vette was always meant to be. But where does that leave the current king of front-engine Corvettes—the supercharged, 755 horsepower 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1? → Read More
The 2019 Bentley Continental GT Is Better Than Owning a Nice House and Just As Expensive
Bentley is known for its big grand tourers packed with massaging seats and ludicrous W12 power. Looks and features are cool and all in the abstract, but does this new 2019 Bentley Continental GT actually grant you a luxurious enough experience in the cockpit and good enough handling on a fun road to justify the price tag that matches a nice house? → Read More
The 2019 Bentley Bentayga V8 Is the Most Opulent Way to Haul Your Stuff at 180 MPH
Obsessively detailed interiors. Shocking performance figures. Huge price tags with the weight to match. These are all things you quickly associate with Bentley. SUV? Not so much. But in 2016, Bentley tried to get in on the money-printing SUV game with the Bentayga, a leather-lined and champagne-filled W12 land missile. → Read More
2019 Acura NSX: Here's How Much Better It Is
The new Acura NSX took an incomprehensibly long time to get here, but anyone who has driven it will agree it was worth the wait. Not without a couple faults, but worth the wait. Now with a slew of updates for 2019, the NSX is somehow even better, if you can believe it. → Read More
Inside The Only Supercar Factory In America
Plenty of auto manufacturers are known for high-tech factories that make halo cars. But usually those facilities are in Europe, like Bugatti’s sparkling white plant in France or McLaren’s incredible speed laboratory in England. Acura would like you to change your thinking here, one of the most advanced car factories in the world can be found in America’s heartland. → Read More
This 640 HP Z06-Swapped 1986 Chevrolet C-10 Pickup Is An Ideal Shop Truck
Shop trucks are part of life for any joint that’s painting, restoring, and upgrading power in various cars and trucks. Errands need to be run, and supplies have to be picked up. Classic Car Studio Speed Shop is known for performing incredible upgrades on cool, vintage rides. They can’t make their runs around town in some ordinary Chevrolet Silverado. A quick set of wheels and a meaner exhaust… → Read More
The 2018 Porsche 911 GT3 Touring Might Be The Best Road Car Porsche Has Ever Made
Every once in a while, Porsche makes the right combination of revisions, throws together the perfect selection of parts, and comes up with something brilliant. The Porsche 911 GT3 Touring is exactly that. → Read More
Here is Your 2018 F1 U.S. Grand Prix Mega Photo Gallery
And to think, I had a draft all ready to go hailing Lewis Hamilton for his eternal dominance at Circuit of The Americas. Turns out Kimi Raikkonen had other plans. → Read More
Here Is Your Big-Ass U.S. Grand Prix Saturday Gallery
Friday’s first two U.S. Grand Prix practice sessions got practically drowned, leaving many teams hiding in their garages for most of the time available. On Saturday, the onslaught of rain bombarding Central Texas over the past month or so finally decided to give us all a break, and allowed Circuit of The Americas to experience all the fast Formula 1 cars running on a dry surface. → Read More
When You Drive a $2.5 Million Koenigsegg Agera RS, You Rethink the Meaning of ‘Fast'
We have a running theory about Christian von Koenigsegg, the genius founder of Swedish hypercar company Koenigsegg, that basically states he’s actually from the future. He’s stuck in our era, trying to invent a car fast enough to take him back to his home time. After driving the $2.5 million, 1,360 horsepower, 277.9 mph Koenigsegg Agera RS, I don’t doubt this at all, and I think he may be close. → Read More
All Of The Fast Rallycross Cars Have Descended Upon Austin
For the first time, the FIA World Rallycross Championship has made its way to American soil. While the Americas Rallycross paid a visit to Austin back in July, the big league rallycross teams are taking to Circuit of The Americas in the heat of Texas. → Read More
The 2019 Mercedes-AMG E53 Packs a Turbo Inline-Six That’ll Make You Love Electricity
Once upon a time, a Mercedes-Benz inline-six was the very model of smoothness and opulence and grace. It went away for some time, but now it’s finally back and boasts some impressive power and tech. Then the mad scientists at AMG got their hands on it. Meet the 2019 Mercedes-AMG E53, one of the more interesting AMG cars you can buy right now. → Read More
The 2019 Mercedes-AMG GT 63 S 4-Door Gives The Porsche Panamera A Run For Its Money
The wickedly fast, ridiculously expensive, please don’t call them sedans even though they’re totally sedans segment has blown up in recent years. “Four-door coupes” like the Audi S7, BMW 6 Series Gran Coupe and Porsche Panamera all fight for damn near $200,000 from your well-diversified portfolio. Mercedes has had an offering in this class—the CLS—for many years, but it wanted to introduce a… → Read More
1984 Honda CRX: Why This Guy Dropped $10,000 To Restore One
For those who crave wheels from the Radwood generation, getting a super clean 1980s Honda these days is no easy task. This particular 1984 Honda CRX looks showroom condition now, but it certainly didn’t stay in this condition all its life. It was meticulously restored by a guy in Austin that truly appreciates all the CRX is. Discovered under a tree in Wimberley, Texas, it had seen better days. → Read More