Car Culture

In the movie is only existed virtually

For the new film Ender's Game, the producers contracted Audi to create a fleet shuttle quattro that would transport characters between spaceships in the film. However, the vehicle never actually existed in the real world in the film. &ldqu...

It will be used in the patrol car fleet

Earlier this year all of the cool police cars were coming from Dubai, but the Australian police in Sydney are not taking it lying down. It has just added a 2014 Porsche Panamera 4S to its patrol car fleet. The car was a donation from the Porsc...

It stars a bunch of hypercars and a few actors too

With Rush either out or coming out soon in theaters around the world, it is time to find a new car movie to look forward to. Need for Speed, based on the long-running video game series of the same name, might not have the patho...

It was a close finish

Skoda lined up a challenge with two-time Olympic gold-medal-winning cyclist Ed Clancy and a Skoda Octavia vRS to see which was faster. It would be unfair for them just to have a drag race, so to make things fair Clancy raced down a mountain with a...

They are known as the four takumi of the Yokohama plant

All of the Nissan GT-R street cars and some of the racecars ever made have had their engines hand assembled by four men. They are known as the takumi, the Japanese word for master craftsman, of the Nissan Yokohama factory. Their names ar...

His training begins in October to race a GT-R GT3

Miguel Faisca from Lisbon, Portugal, is the 2013 European GT Academy Champion. The 24-year-old gamer took the title by being voted the best driver by the jury of former and current racing drivers who also acted as the competitors’ mentors.&n...

Says concept cars are too close to production cars

Chris Bangle spent over a decade as the lead designer of BMW Group. He was the company's first ever head of design, and he and protege Adrian van Hooydonk reshaped BMW design into what it is today. He left the company suddenly in 2009 for reas...

It is holding a celebration at its technical center

Today, September 2, McLaren celebrates its 50th anniversary since a 26-year-old Bruce McLaren incorporated the company that bares his name in New Malden, Surrey, England. McLaren had begun racing at 14 when he restored an Austin 7 at his paren...

The Interceptor SUVs account for half of Ford's police sales

Ford has an extremely long history of building special police models since the 30s and dominated the market for about 30 years with the Crown Victoria that entered service as the LTD in 1979. In the last decade in the US, SUVs have become more pop...

It exists only virtually and will debut in the game

Gran Turismo did not invent the racing sim in 1998 - not even close - but it brought it away from the computer and onto the gaming console. Before Gran Turismo, racing games on consoles were all arcade racers. This is partially due to technical li...