Autos & Vehicles

Rear-Engine Mini-Truck Madness! Roadkill Ep. 45

This time around, Freiburger and Finnegan travel to Santa Rosa, California, to drive a crazy ’74 Mazda REPU mini-truck all the way back to SoCal, where they’ll compete in Optima’s Search for the Ultimate Street Car Challenge.

The Mazda is an oddity, originally powered by a rotary engine but later converted to Olds Toronado front-wheel drive drivetrain sometime in the late-1980s. With a 455ci big-block and ’69 Toronado transaxle slid between the rear frame rails, the seller claimed wheelies and 10-second ETs. However, Finnegan and Freiburger quickly discover their $5,000 mini-truck has more style than substance. Can they hang with the big dogs at the races?

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LS1 Swapped Rx-7 Build and Blast #Iammarklenardon– Hot Rod Garage Ep. 31

Earlier this year, the Motor Trend family lost one of it’s own, Mark Lenardon in a tragic motorcycle accident. Mark left behind an Rx-7 that he was in the processing of swapping in a 1999 Camaro LS1 and t56. Watch Tony Angelo, and some of Mark’s best buds come together and furiously work to turn this pile of parts into a running, driving, drifting machine! Once running, we hit the track, and let this Rx-7 scream! #iammarklenardon.

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2015 SEMA Week Powered by Nissan! Starting November 30th on the Motor Trend Channel

Tune in to the Motor Trend Channel starting November 30th for 4 straight days of SEMA coverage and 1 epic drag race. 2015 SEMA Week powered by Nissan kicks off on Monday November 30th with Mike Finnegan showing you all the cool stuff around SEMA for hot rod gear heads. On Tuesday Jessi Lang will take you through the world new cars and Mike Sabounchi holds down Wednesday with all the hot Tuner action. On Thursday, Fred Williams explores the latest in trucks and off-roading and on Friday, get ready for a “War of the Worlds” drag race between Fred, Mike, Jessi and Mike. They’ve each sourced a vehicle from their world at SEMA and will line them up an epic head-to-head-to-head-to-head race for bragging rights!

Catch the full week of 2015 SEMA programming November 30th through December 4th with a new video premiering each day!

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2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350R vs. 2015 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 – Head 2 Head Ep. 71

There’s a muscle-car war brewing in Detroit these days. Right as the handling-champion Z/28 goes out of production, Ford delivers a Shelby-badged suckerpunch with a flat-plane-crank V8, MR dampers, and carbon fiber wheels. Head 2 Head host Jason Cammisa takes the two through a series of challenges: first, some canyon carving to see which car is better on the road. Then, a dyno shootout: can the GT350R’s 5.2-liter Voodoo make more power than the venerable 7.0-liter LS7? And then, it’s onto Chuckwalla Valley Raceway where Jason and racecar driver Randy Pobst find out not only which one is faster around the track, but which car handles best. No muscle-car comparison test would be complete without a drag race, of course, so Cammisa lines up the cars with the help of his cousin Bob from West Virginia. This episode of Head 2 Head, presented by Tire Rack, is the one-stop shop for everything you need to know about the latest Detroit muscle-car rivalry.

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2016 Toyota Tacoma: Four-wheeling Through Utah’s Big Five! – Epic Drives Ep. 31

The sprawling western state of Utah boasts not one but five unforgettable national parks–and on this far-ranging episode host Arthur St. Antoine visits them all in the latest edition of one of the most popular pickup trucks on the planet. Mars-like terrain, outrageous mountain-biking, 420-hp jet boats, skies filled with epic stars–Arthur explores all this and more in a ten-day tour of a landscape unlike anything else on earth!

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Dyno Proven: 50 HP With One Bolt-On! – Engine Masters Ep. 1

Engine Masters, presented by AMSOIL, is an all-new show for the Motor Trend channel! Each episode takes you into the engine-dyno room where power claims are questioned and head-to-head shootouts ensue. Engine Masters finds the truth about speed parts and has a lot of fun doing it with hosts David Freiburger of HOT ROD and Roadkill, Steve Dulcich of Engine Masters magazine, and Steve Brule of Westech Performance Group. In this first episode you’ll find out if Blueprint Engines is accurate in its advertised power for a 400ci Chevy small-block crate engine, and then we’ll see if Freiburger is justified in his love for dual carburetors and high-rise tunnel-ram intake manifolds—plus there’s cash on the line. In upcoming episodes you’ll see carbs versus EFI, Chevy versus Mopar, Edelbrock versus Holley carburetors and lots more. Come back to the Motor Trend channel of YouTube or to MotorTrendOnDemand.com for more of Engine Masters, presented by AMSOIL.

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