Nissan has announced they’ll feature the new Nissan GT-R as the official pace car for this Sunday’s Super GT 2008 Series at the Suzuka Racing Circuit in Japan. This year also marks the return of the Nissan GT-R GT500 in the GT Series, the 493 hp race car weighs in at 1,100 kg and [...]

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The fellas at Ralph Willis Automotive in Salinas, California managed to get a Lexus IS-F onto their DynoJet dynamometer. The results, as you can see below, were impressive. The IS-F is rated at 416 hp and 371 lb-ft of torque at the engine - and it delivered 333 of those horses and 318 lb-ft [...]

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The Mazda2 Extreme is a rally-inspired study that definately catches attention. Based on the five door Mazda2, the Extreme is the rally equipped 1.5-liter engined car study that is still under development. Mazda hopes to increase the car’s real world performance by at least 20 percent by the time it’s done.
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Nissan’s annual Motorsports Exhibition day shows off all things motorsport and usually sees a number of historic race cars pulled out of the carmaker’s official collection. This year’s theme is all about the new R35 GT-R and to celebrate the race car’s comeback into the GT500 class of Japan’s SUPER GT series a full [...]

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Honda’s F1 is getting a little desperate and has decided to offer staff (everyone: engineers, cleaners, nose pickers) a $2000 should driver Jenson Button or Rubens Barrichello win a race in 2008. With a staff of around 750 that’ll cost the team almost $1.5 million per victory.

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