Ferrari 360 Spider Slams Into a Taxi, Driver Makes a Run for It, Slides Again…

Edward brought to our attention this hit-and-run incident involving a yellow Ferrari 360 Spider and a local taxicab from the Kowloon Tong area in Hong Kong that occurred on January 20.

Edward tells us that the Ferrari was seemingly (but not surely) street racing with a VW Scirocco and a BMW Z4, when as you can see from the dash-cam video below, the driver lost control of the 360 Spider and slammed into the taxi.

Instead of doing the right thing, the Ferrari motorist made a run for it, but a few hundred feet later, he lost it…again, performing a 360-degree turn, crashing into the sidewalk next to a gas station. Apparently, no lesson was learned as he abandoned the scene.

"Hong Kong News reported that later, the police found the damaged 360 Spider, but the driver was missing as he had abandoned the car," Edward tells us. "The police were contacted by the owners to assist the investigation." 

Shout out to Edward for the submission!

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Porsche 911 Carrera S vs Corvette Stingray Video

Can you compare a Chevrolet Corvette Stingray with a Porsche 911 Carrera S that has options worth the price of the Vette? Well, Chris Harris says you can, if only to prove money is not always the best indicator of a car’s capabilities.

While the tested Corvette cost around $60,000, the 911 Carrera S had a starting price of approximately $100,000, plus $60,000 worth of options!

Naturally, that begs the obvious question: was the 911 almost three-times better than the Corvette C7? Harris put both cars to the test on the track to find out, and some of his conclusions were quite surprising.

The “slow and cumbersome” optional six-speed automatic gearbox was the Vette’s only major downside in Harris’ view, but there’s a solution for that: don’t spend extra money on it and choose the standard seven-speed manual - or wait for the upcoming 8-speed auto.

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BBR Mazda MX-5 Turbo or TRD-Tuned Toyota GT86?

Both the Mazda MX-5 and Toyota GT86 (Scion FR-S) suffer from having too little power, whichever one you go for. This is apparent whatever sporty car you climb out of before driving either of them, but as the EVO video posted below tries to illustrate, there’s no harm in trying to improve these cars to really make the best of their chassis.

First off, the Toyota can be had with a list of factory updates, in the form of a TRD kit. However, that does nothing to up the power and torque of the GT86, the car’s two main quibbles. It does address the grip problem brought about by the use of 17-inch Prius tires in the basic car by swapping them out for larger 18-inch forged rims with much better rubber.

Still not fast enough, but that’s where the MX-5, tuned by BBR, comes in with 70 hp more than the stock GT86, courtesy of a turbo kit. It’s a car that has been slightly neglected ever since the Toyobaru came out, but as the folloowing comparison illustrates, in this slightly-tuned guise, it’s actually a better choice (for the money).

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Twin Turbo Gallardo Battles AMS GT-R

Two of the most powerful street-legal cars on the planet recently went head-to-head on the highways of Russia. Filled with racing fuel and set to maximum boost, heavily-modified versions of the Nissan GT-R and the Lamborghini Gallardo squared-off in an epic (and incredibly unsafe) showdown for the ages.The Nissan GT-R AMS Alpha 12+ kicks out a wild 1,500 horsepower when filled with racing fuel. Running on Toyo Proxes R88 tires, it took on the Underground Racing Twin Turbo Gallardo.

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McLaren P1 Supercar: First Specs And Live Photos

 We’ve seen the studio shots and guessed at all the specs, but here is the McLaren P1 supercar in all its glory, these photos coming direct from its debut just moments ago at the 2012 Paris Auto Show. This is the first auto show appearance for McLaren, the automaker, and we can’t think of a better car with which to highlight its debut.
McLaren makes no secret of its primary design goal for the P1: for it to be the best driver’s car in the world--both on the road and track. Note, this means that the P1 won’t be challenging the Bugatti Veyron for the production car land speed record, but it could potentially be the world’s fastest accelerating car money can buy.

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Lamborghini Sesto Elemento starts up on road

Check out this cool clip of a rather rare (only 20 made) Lamborghini Sesto Elemento starting up.

How good does that 570bhp V10 sound through those boot exit exhausts! Crazy.

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