Filed under: Motorsports , Etc. , Videos , Celebrities Red Bull has a rather unique way of ringing in the new year. Back in 2007, motorcycle freestyle daredevil Robbie Maddison jumped 322 feet over a football field in Las Vegas, setting a world record for the longest motorcycle jump.
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Video: Record-setting motorcycle and snowmobile tandem jump rings in New Year
Filed under: Aftermarket , Concept Cars , Motorsports , Coupe , Performance , Japan , Hatchback , Subaru , Tokyo Auto Salon , Racing Unlike most cities, Japan’s capital city plays host to two major automotive exhibitions: the Tokyo Motor Show and the Tokyo Auto Salon . While these terms may be interchangeable when it comes to European expos, in Tokyo, they connote two different shows altogether. The first is the Motor Show, where new concepts and production models are unveiled by the world’s automakers. The Auto Salon is more of a tuner expo along the lines of the SEMA show in Las Vegas
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Official: Subaru promises BRZ, Impreza STI concepts plus rally return at Tokyo Auto Salon
Filed under: Motorsports , Performance , Etc. , Europe , Marketing/Advertising , Videos , Honda , Motorcycle , Racing It’s easy to forget the motivation behind Ken Block’s ridiculous gymkhana video series. At the heart of the tire smoking action, Block is simply paying the piper. All of those drool-inducing slow motion shots of the stunt driver’s old Subaru WRX STI and new Ford Fiesta feature a smattering of sponsor stickers beating their way into our psyches
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Video: Nine minutes of supermoto action is our idea of a great infomercial
Filed under: Motorsports , Performance , Etc. , Europe , Marketing/Advertising , Videos , Honda , Motorcycle , Racing It’s easy to forget the motivation behind Ken Block’s ridiculous gymkhana video series. At the heart of the tire smoking action, Block is simply paying the piper.
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Video: Nine minutes of supermoto action is our idea of a great infomercial
Filed under: Tokyo Motor Show While rumors of Tokyo Motor Show’s demise continue to persist, there was enough new metal at this biennial auto show to justify our attendance. The Toyota GT 86 and Subaru BRZ alone were enough to suffer through the jet lag for you. We hope the 2013 show will be even stronger yet, if it even happens.
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Tokyo: We obsessively covered the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show
Filed under: Sedan , Performance , Japan , Tokyo Motor Show , Subaru There was a time when American buyers were routinely forbidden from getting their hands on automakers’ more entertaining pieces of engineering. These days, more and more automakers are turning to global product development, which means we get to play with hardware like the Nissan GT-R and the Ford Focus ST . Subaru , however, seems bent on keeping the really fun stuff on its home turf, including the delicious WRX STI S206 . The company’s engineers went full bore on the turbocharged flat four-cylinder engine under the hood, balancing all of the internals, dropping on a ball bearing turbo and reflashing the ECU for a total of 316 horsepower
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Tokyo: Subaru WRX STI S206 is a slice of JDM awesome