Group B Restomod, American Monster in the UK, Supra vs. a Raptor R: The Best Automotive Videos on YouTube This Week

The blokes over at Drive Tribe has been on a bit of an American kick lately. First it was importing a Dodge Charge Hellcat Redeye, and now we get this. Through a company called AEC that imports North American-only Stellantis models to Europe, Richard Hammond will be driving a Ram TRX as his daily. It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out. Between the huge size of the TRX, the small European streets of the UK, and their much higher fuel prices, he may get over the TRX real quick.

I’ve mentioned before how “Harry’s Garage” is one of my favorite automotive YouTube channels, if not my number one. This week’s video demonstrates why. Half a century ago, Evo Magazine founder Harry Metcalfe saw a Lancia Zagato sitting outside a garage near his parents’ home and bought it. Now over 50 years later, Harry takes that same Lancia, now restored, on a roadtrip back to the garage and spot that turned him into an auto enthusiast.

Oh, the sweet beloved Dodge Viper. It’s gone from us now, but that doesn’t stop us from wondering just where the hell did America’s supercar go wrong. This week, Donut Media gets behind the wheel of every Dodge Viper generation, from the first crazy R/T 10 from the early 1990s all the way to the last SRT Vipers, its a generational drive of one of the wildest production cars ever made.

I know you’re probably wondering why anyone would put these two cars in a head-to-head race. Don’t worry though, it’s not anything like trying to get a Supra to off road or a Raptor R to drift. This week, the folks at Hoonigan take a Gazoo Racing-tuned Supra — with a few BMW performance parts thrown in — and put it up against the ultimate version of Ford’s off road pickup, the 700-horsepower Raptor R.

I don’t know about anyone else, but I’d be pretty damn nervous to be behind the wheel of a 997 Turbo S with over 1,000 horsepower. But “That Racing Channel” didn’t seem to worried, as they took to the streets in a 911 Turbo S that, when run on a dyno, put down 1,403 WHP. Insane.

The Nissan 180SX, also known as the Sylvia elsewhere in the world (or S13 if you’re a JDM junkie), has a special place in the hearts of JDM fans. It’s often the foundation for everything from a tuner project to a full-blown professional drift racer. But as the years have gone on and their numbers have dwindled, good examples are getting harder to find. That’s probably why Mighty Car Mods got their hands on a rather rough example and fully restored it to JDM street racing spec in a nearly two hour and forty four minute video.

Carlisle, Pennsylvania is a rather small borough in southern Pennsylvania. Any other time most people might not think much of it. But every spring it hosts the worlds largest automotive swap meet. Onorato Restorations went to go check out the goods at the swap meet, which featured everything from cars, to every engine part you could imagine and everything in between.

The Alpine A110 is a fantastically capable car that unfortunately we don’t get here in the U.S. If you’re wondering just how good this thing is, check out the ‘Ring run of the A110R track version. It lapped the famous track in just 7:08.

Restomods have been gaining popularity the last few years. And for good reason too: They often turn out better than the original versions of the cars they’re based on. This week, Hagerty got its hands on a restomod done up by Kimera Automobili. The Italian manufacture makes the EVO37, a Group B inspired restomod based on the Lancia 037.

I can’t believe it’s been 26 years since the Chevy Corvette C5 made its debut. But in that quarter century, has America’s premier sports car really gotten much better? “The Fast Lane Car” wanted to find out so they pitted a stock C5 Corvette against a stock C8 Corvette to see who came out on top in a serious of tests. From drag races to exhaust sounds, it’s late 20th century GM performance engineering against mid 21st century GM performance engineering.

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