burnout

One rear-drive coupe with over 500 horsepower would be enough for most automakers. But not General Motors. The biggest of the Detroit automakers just couldn't get by with what some rivals would put on a showroom turntable with more flood-lights than an ATF raid. That's why it makes the Chevrolet ...

SRT cars love doing burnouts. This is not news. So, how do you get an all-wheel-drive 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 to produce as much smoke as any Challenger, Charger or 300C we've ever seen? By messing with the ECU, of course. You see, in Track mode, the Jeep sends 65 percent of its power to ...

Chrysler really should have sold the Dodge Viper without its body. We don't really have anything against the slinking lines of the big snake, but there's something about the vision of the V10 monster frolicking around with its skirt off that simply flips all the right switches. It's like a ...

Books are made for reading, boots are made for walking and tires are meticulously engineered for burnouts. As you may or may not be aware, the latest chapter in the Fast and the Furious saga was released this weekend to the rejoicing of testosterone-soaked teenage crowds everywhere. Nowhere was ...

Hot Rod was recently busy filming its Shelby Cobra versus Super Snake video, but that doesn't mean there wasn't some downtime. That break in the action... resulted in more action, because ...

We may be a bit late in posting this clip, but it's new to us... and it's excellent. We present to you a triple-decker burnout that puts most other tire-shredding attempts to shame. On top is a ...

When Mercedes-Benz first dropped word that a team of enterprising individuals had wedged a kicking Silver Arrow V8 under the hood of the company's diminutive B-Class hatch, we immediately began searching around for a video of the ...

There are plenty of guilty pleasures when it comes to cars and motorcycles, but chief among them has to be the burnout. Sure, you might as well be lighting $100 bills on fire, and yes, you're not exactly doing the ...

We love burnouts as much as the next guy, but lets face it: Not every clip of tires spinning on pavement is a thing of beauty. Some are too short, the camera is too shaky or perhaps the burnout is just a sloppy mess. Hey, it happens. But every now and ...

We're not sure if it's the raw display of power or the smell of burning rubber, but there is just something about a good burnout that puts a smile on our face. Of course, the burnout has to be done right to make us smile. A poorly executed spinning ...