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VIDEO: Alex Roy shows Tanner Faust and Sony PSP how to really drive Laguna Seca

Oct 2nd 2009 4:56PM - 13 Comments

Click image above to view the video after the jump Rhys Millen and Tanner Foust's PSP-powered run around Laguna Seca didn't seem to impress the interminable Alex Roy, so he strapped a big screen TV and an Xbox into the back of a Porsche Cayenne, ...

VIDEO: Alex Roy on the Late Show with Letterman

Jan 11th 2008 12:33PM - 36 Comments

You may remember Alex Roy as a member of Team Polizei, which drove a BMW M3 across the continental U.S. in the unofficial record time of 31 hours and 4 minutes in late 2006. The record is unofficial because maintaining an average speed of over 90 ...

They've arrived! Alex Roy, Damon and crew about to cross Bay Bridge

Aug 14th 2008 12:49PM - 6 Comments

Click above to view the crew crossing the Bay Bridge live Damon, Alex Roy, Davey G. Johnson and Liz Moses (they picked her up in Wyoming) are about to cross the San Francisco Bay Bridge that will officially mark the end of their 80 in 40 trip. ...

LIVE: Autoblogger doing I-80 in 40 hours with Alex Roy

Aug 12th 2008 3:30PM - 38 Comments

Click above to watch the 80 in 40 streaming live var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/autos/New_York_to_San_Francisco_in_a_Fake_Police_Car'; When Damon asked if he could take two days off from blogging to do a cross-country road trip with his buddies, ...

Alex Roy retires from rallying, campaigning team in Grand Am Rolex series

Apr 16th 2009 7:28PM - 16 Comments

In a move that's sure to surprise almost no one, Alex Roy – head of Team Polizei, multi-rally champion, author of The Driver and the man responsible for crossing the continent in 31:04 – has officially retired from road rallies. Roy, who ...

Alex Roy reviews his dream car: the Audi R8 Blackbird

Aug 13th 2008 1:29PM - 65 Comments

Click above to view video after the jump Alex Roy, currently locked in an M5 with our own Damon Lavric, recently got a video tour of a rather nifty Audi R8 owned by someone who insists he remain nameless. Codenamed Blackbird, the coupe is stuffed ...

The saga continues: Gumballer Nick Morley guilty, but may be released

Jun 8th 2007 5:58PM - 8 Comments

Earlier today, we got word from Team Polizei founder Alex Roy that a court in Macedonia found Nick Morely responsible for the deaths of the Cepuljoskis, which resulted after his Porsche Turbo struck the couple during the 2007 Gumball Rally. At this ...

80 in 40: The Modern American Road Trip

Aug 13th 2008 12:41AM - 16 Comments

I'm writing this from the passenger seat of Alex Roy's 2000 BMW M5 after my four-hour stint behind the wheel. Despite the 5er's luxurious confines, I'm contorted into the front seat, shoehorned between four sat-navs, two night-vision screens and one ...

Top Gear hosts developing live arena show for U.S.?

Jun 12th 2008 3:02PM - 27 Comments

You may remember Alex Roy from his book, The Driver, about his team's record-breaking run across the U.S. in a BMW M5, but he's also a deep automotive insider that gets information from a number of cloaked sources who wear dark sunglasses and pass ...

The Driver: U.S. Transcontinental rally record broken, details, debate and more

Oct 16th 2007 12:33PM - 24 Comments

Click the shot above for over 80 pics, scans and images. If you were scouring the interwebs yesterday, you might have come across a story about Team Polizei's record-breaking transcontinental run from New York to L.A. Our friends over at Jalopnik ...

Fear the man: British cops channel their inner Makinen with EVO cruisers

Jul 19th 2007 1:29PM - 7 Comments

A recent conversation with a colleague, whose previous stint as a traffic officer in the UK equipped him to become one of the preeminent driving instructors in the U.S., prompted a discussion of law enforcement exercises. Apparently in the U.K., ...

VIDEO: Alex Roy interviews Gran Turismo's Kazunori Yamauchi on Garage 419

Dec 11th 2007 2:02PM - 9 Comments

var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/playstation/Gran_Turismo_used_for_driver_s_education_Hell_yeah'; The newest episode of Garage 419 is up and The Driver, Alex Roy, had a chance to sit down with the inimitable director of Gran Turismo, Kazunori ...

Streaming video of Team Polizei 144P practice at Laguna Seca

May 15th 2009 5:30PM - 5 Comments

Click the image above to view the streaming video after the jump Trans-continental record-holder Alex Roy and the rest of the Polizei/TRG gang are testing their Porsche 997 911 GT3 before its inaugural outing at this weekend's Grand Am race at ...

Behold, the Power of Subaru: WRX STI tows semi out of snow

Dec 20th 2009 10:47AM - 124 Comments

A Subaru WRX STi pulls a semi stuck in the snow -- Click above to watch the video Somewhere in the snow that's falling all over the northern hemisphere, a tractor-trailer got stuck on some slushy ice and snow, blocking a city street. That helpless ...

The 2005 Street Machine of the Year

Jul 20th 2005 10:00AM - 10 Comments

Congratulations to Roy Pigford for taking home the 2005 Goodguys Street Machine of the Year award with his 1966 Chevy Nova. What makes Roy's car so special is that he did a claimed 99% of the work himself, after buying the car as a very mild ...

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Autoblog Podcast #158: 'Twas a couple nights before Christmas...

Chris, Editor Paukert, and Dan send the Podcast off for the Christmas holiday in proper fashion

 
 

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