Bedtime Story - Where Is Godzilla Hiding?

Taken a little while ago. The Stagea is now sporting a substantial skirt to make it look lower. Looks cool for an estate!The mind works in funny ways. When I walked to school, I used to walk past a particular house every day, which is clearly inhabited by a Nissan fan. Every day for literally as long as I can remember, there has been - no word of a lie - a black Nissan R32 GT-R sitting in exactly the same place on the driveway. There's also a Stagea...

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McLaren X1: MP4-12C Meets Art-Deco Spaceship

Moving around in front of people for perhaps the last time...There are rich people, who buy shiny Land Rovers and drive them around London. Then, there are very rich people, who buy a Porsche or Lamborghini, perhaps as a second car, and drive around in them on occasion, just to remind you that they are very rich. A step or two up from these pests are the obscenely rich. These are the people who could buy a £12million house on Portland Road or an...

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NISMO To Bring Gran Turismo 5 Into Reality, Tune Nissans

Many car companies have what are known as a "Tuning Arm". No, not a big mechanical arm, silly. A tuning arm is what AMG is to Mercedes-Benz, or STI is to Subaru, or M is to BMW, or RenaultSport is to Renault, or - to some extent - what Mugen is to Honda. Nissan has had one for quite some time now, but only really in Japan. Called NISMO (NISsan MOtorsport) they've made a variety of racing cars from GT-class cars to Le Mans racers, and given Japan...

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Chris Harris For President (Sort Of)

9/8/12, 3:55, 301 views (when posted)The Drive Channel on YouTube are having a competition to see which host can get the most views, so to help my favourite - Evo's and Pistonheads' Chris Harris - about 1%, I'm reposting his video here. It's a short blast, and incorporates two big cheeses at Jalopnik, which is where I spend much time, and another big cheese at Pistonheads, which is where I should be spending much time. Most of all though, it involves a 564bhp Cadillac CTS-V SportWagon doing drifts around A Man. Also green shorts. Those are worth...

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Pikes Peak 2012 - The Mountain Awakens

15/6/12, 2:25, 56927 views (when posted)After being delayed due to most of Colorado being slightly On Fire, the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb is finally upon us, which means the big road-laden mountain in Colorado Springs, CO, USA will once again play host to some of the maddest machines known to man, woman and golem. One such example is this, the Banks Power Special made and driven by noted race winner Paul Dallenbach. Improved from last year...

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The Week In Interesting Motoring News

Logo may change if this becomes a featureSpending a week away without internet is made easier when you have increasing amounts of British Olympic success and the occasional seaside town to keep you going, but the motoring world moves fast, and missing seven days of news is missing a lot. Happily, from my perspective at least, most motoring news is the same, be it a new facelift, intriguing new technology, obscure supercar, new model rumours and spy...

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