When you have $115,000 burning a hole in your pocket, and you want a yoked-out 4-door sedan that’s trying to imitate a coupe, what do you get? A BMW M6 Gran Coupe (560 hp, 500 lb-ft) or an Audi RS 7 (560 hp, 516 lb-ft)? Do you like the Audi’s all-wheel-drive grip, or do you […] More »

The M3 isn’t stock … it’s got an Akrapovič titanium exhaust, Schirmer three-way suspension, AP Racing brakes, Recaro sport seats and a roll cage … but you can see those mods are no match for the GT-R coming out of the corners onto the straights with more than 620 horsepower being sent to all four wheels. […] More »

This past weekend, Shift S3ctor held its fourth Airstrip Attack (1/2 mile, side-by-side racing and trap-speed competition) at the New Coalinga Municipal Airport near Fresno, California. Note: Don’t let the airport’s name fool you. It was built in the late 1990s, so it’s not really that new. “New” differentiates the facility from the original Coalinga […] More »

Since late August we’ve been posting Edmunds videos of the C7 Corvette battling its enemies, foreign and domestic, on the Streets of Willow Springs. For a look in the rearview mirror at how the Corvette Stingray faired individually against its rivals, click the links below. Corvette versus SRT Viper Corvette versus Nissan GT-R Corvette versus Porsche 911 […] More »

We’ve seen the 2014 Corvette Stingray go against the SRT Viper, Nissan GT-R and Porsche 911 Carrera S. In each of those comparisons (links provided) there had been a significant price gap between the C7 Corvette and its respective challenger. This week, the Corvette meets a commensurately priced competitor: the 2013 BMW M3 Coupe. As […] More »

LTMW is one of the busiest BMW performance shops in Southern California, and their latest partnering with Liberty Walk Performance, a Japanese automotive styling house, has really taken them to the next level of awesome. To celebrate their partnership, LTMW and Liberty Walk Performance hosted a car meet at LTMW’s shop in El Monte, California, […] More »

For three years Motor Trend has been making YouTube’s servers work overtime with its “World’s Greatest Drag Race” videos. The 2011 World’s Greatest Drag race got 13,995,708 views. In 2012, World’s Greatest Drag Race 2 got 13,648,251 YouTube views. Now it’s 2013, and for the next few hours, the view counter for World’s Greatest Drag […] More »