Earlier this month, Team Hot Wheels announced that the would be attempting to set a Guinness World Record tittle for successfully racing though a 60-foot-tall double vertical loop at X Games Los Angeles 2012 – well, they’ve done it. Green Driver Greg Tracy, one of Hollywood’s top stuntmen, took first place followed by Hot Wheels [...]
Yesterday, Top Gear UK’s Jeremy Clarkson confirmed via Twitter that the show will be disappearing until January 2013. Well, a Top Gear USA host also confirmed that the show will be returning for the third season. “At the Upfront’s in NYC 2 officially announce Season 3 #TopGear Tanner’s racing. sum1 try & catch him & [...]
We’re pretty satisfied with the new Ford Focus and the 247-hp Focus ST that will debut next year. However, our enthusiast heart still yearns for a new version of the RS500. Powered by a 2.5 liter inline 5-cylinder turbo engine, the Ford Focus RS500 makes a whopping 350-hp and all that power is transferred to [...]
Thanks to its high ratings and great popularity, Top Gear, has been signed on for additional programing by The History Channel. While the show may not have done well initially, the network still decided to give it another try and ended up with a season average of 1.9 million viewers, which is an increase of [...]
Ford is looking to gain the attention of the younger market, dubbed the “Millennial Enthusiasts” with its new Ford Octane Academy. The Academy opens up the opportunity for extreme sports enthusiast to compete in an online contest divided into four camps. Contestants enter via video submission proving they have the skills to keep up with [...]
Tanner Foust, Adam Ferrara and Rutledge Wood are ready to take over the History Channel with a second season of Top Gear for the U.S. market. What do they have in store? Well, we’re not really sure and the new trailer that the History Channel just released doesn’t show much except the three hosts driving [...]
We thoroughly enjoyed the return of Top Gear UK this past weekend. Season 17 kicked of with a bang as Richard Hammond, James May and Jeremy Clarkson test drove the new Marauder tank and the BMW 1-Series M Coupe. Wondering when Top Gear US will be back on air? According to the show’s Facebook page: [...]
Earlier today, during the ‘IZOD Presents Hot Wheels Fearless at the 500′ at the Indy 500, Tanner Foust successfully landed a ramp-to-ramp distant jump of 332 feet. The three-time X Games gold medalist smashed the previous world record by an impressive 31 feet at the 100th anniversary of the Indianapolis 500. “Fans witnessed not only [...]
Mark your calendars, Codemasters’ DiRT 3 is coming to Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and the PC on May 24, 2011. The game will allow players to drive a variety of Ford vehicles and compete against Ford motorsports superstars Ken Block and Tanner Foust in Rallycross, head to head races, and traditional Rally. Also, for the [...]
Race drivers Tanner Foust & Justin Bell have set the bench mark time for the Focus Global Test Drive participants ‘Speed Challenge.’ Bell and Foust will both help host Focus Global Test Drive participants at the National Institute for Aerospace Technology (INTA) near Madrid. The Ford Focus Global Test Drive program will run for three [...]
