What do you get when you cross a Volkswagen Polo with the engine from a Suzuki Hayabusa? You get a pint-sized pocket rocket that sounds like a disembowled banshee, that’s what.

We’ve little solid information on the precise specs of this half-breed, but we do know that it’s turbocharged, mid-engined and utlises a chain-driven rear axle [...]

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Rumours of an impending Honda/Acura V8 are certainly nothing new, but while we previously predicted that such an engine would make its production debut as early as 2010, word on the street is that the projected launch date could be 2015 at the earliest.

The next generation of Honda Legend/Acura RL will supposedly carry on with [...]

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If you’re a bit of a motorsports fiend and regularly track your car, you’ll no doubt be aware of the perils of oil starvation. Under hard acceleration, cornering and braking, oil can slosh away from the oil pump pickup and result in some rather undesirable outcomes like excessive conrod-to-block interaction or, if you’re lucky, a [...]

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The issue of the R35 GT-R’s true power has been a contentious one ever since the first press car strapped onto a dyno recorded a much higher than expected result. Many have claimed that cars given to journalists were deliberately altered by Nissan to produce a higher power number than that stated on the [...]

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This short clip taken from car magazine’s coverage of the British Motor Show gives us our first close-up look at the Lexus LF-A’s 5-litre 373kW V10. It’s fairly short, but we do get a glimpse of the naturally-aspirated V10’s intake velocity stacks, no-nonsense aluminium block and those tasty tubular exhaust headers. Check out the video [...]

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Back in the glory days of high school I squandered much of my youth bent over little pieces of plastic, desperately trying to arrange them into a shape that more or less resembled a car without gluing anything critical to my fingers or inhaling too much paint. I pretty much abandoned this hobby soon after [...]

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Japanese engine parts manufacturer JUN and tuning legends Cosworth are bringing out a host of parts for Mitsubishi’s all-new performance engine, the 4B11. Cosworth are in the midst of development of a high-flow head for Mitsubishi’s brand new four-pot, which promises a revised combustion chamber design and provision for larger intake and exhaust valves. Not [...]

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How’s this for an unusual engine swap. It seems the owner of this WRX got sick of hearing that distinctive boxer burble coming from his tailpipe and decided to trade in that sound for the bizarre blatting of a rotary. The motor used was a 13B-REW from an FD RX-7 and it seems to fit [...]

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Remember that VH41DE powered Nissan S-Cargo we featured waaay back in August ‘07? Well, it’s now up for sale in New Zealand, giving eccentric import car fans a rare chance to score themselves one powerful (yet eminently practical) short-wheelbase van.I always let out a little chuckle whenever I hear about this car, and it’s good [...]

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North American RX-8 owners are gunna love this. In a tremendous expression of confidence in their trademark rotary engine, Mazda have decided to slap an 8 year/100,000 mile warranty on the engines of all RX-8s. And when we mean all, we don’t just mean all new-build RX-8s, but every RX-8 sold since 2004.It gets even [...]

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