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Watch: Skoda slides into record books with 4.6-mile drift on ice

Published 03 February 2023
By David Mullen
Skoda has claimed two new Guinness World Records for ice-drifting using its Enyaq vRS iV electric car.
Toyota creates and tests autonomous drift car to advance driver assistance systems

Watch Toyota's self-driving drift car

The Toyota Research Institute, a US-based R&D arm of the Japanese car-maker, has programmed a vehicle to autonomously drift around obstacles.
Published 03 February 2022
2022 Audi RS 3 Sportback

The 2021 Audi RS 3 is outrageously fast

The Audi RS 3 is a giant-killing hot hatch that’s ballistically quick. Dave Humphreys gets to grips with it.
Published 05 November 2021
Ken Block Hoonigan Climbkhana Ford F-150 Hoonitruck Tianmen Mountain Road

The 10 best Ken Block gymkhana films ranked

Ken Block: a man responsible for burning more rubber than the Springfield Tire Yard & generating many times more YouTube hits than Keyboard Cat.
Published 11 December 2020
Ken Block Hoonigan Climbkhana Ford F-150 Hoonitruck Tianmen Mountain Road

Video: Watch Ken Block hoon up Heaven's Gate

Ken Block has returned to his stunt driving roots, by taking on one of the world's toughest mountain roads in a 901bhp Ford pick-up truck.
Published 19 November 2019
Drifting champion Mike Whiddett brings his drift-spec Lamborghini Huracán to Goodwood

Video: Lamborghini drift car races to Goodwood

Of the many drifting machines at the 2019 Festival of Speed, few are as outrageous as Mike "Mad Mike" Whiddett's wild one-off Huracán supercar.
Published 05 July 2019

Video: Ford Mustang drifts the entire Nürburgring

Ford has becomie the latest car maker to set a Nürburgring Nordschliefe record — by drifting an 800bhp+ Mustang around all 13 miles of the track.
Published 27 September 2018
Police shut down car sliding sideshow on San Francisco bridge

Police shut down illegal drifting on Bay Bridge

Two cars have been impounded by police in California after being caught doing drifts and doughnuts on a bridge in San Francisco.
Published 22 August 2018

Video: 1000bhp Ford Mustang drift cars burn rubber

When it comes modern-day motorsport, you'll often hear fans grumble that the likes of Formula One or the World Rally Championship aren't all that
Published 17 April 2018
Nissan GT-R and Masato Kawabata claim Guinness World Record for 189mph drift

Drifting at 189mph secures GT-R Nismo a Guinness world...

It sounds like a challenge set by the producers of Top Gear: you must drift your car, at speed, and secure a Guinness world record.
Published 11 April 2016
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The top motoring Twitter accounts to follow

Twitter is in pole position when it comes to car news, gossip and videos, but who are the people and teams worth following? James Mills fires up his...
Published 25 January 2016
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Crash, bang, wallop: riding with Ken Block in the 845bhp...

Ken Block is the man who rolled a Reliant Robin at the first — yes, the first — corner of the Top Gear test track in 2010. So imagine my concern...
Published 24 November 2015
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Video: Meet the V8-powered piste-bashing Ripsaw EV-2...

If the wild vehicles built by Howe & Howe look like they could have come straight out of a Hollywood blockbuster, that’s because some of them have...
Published 10 April 2015