The internet did it so you don’t have to. Here’s the worst racing movie in history, Driven, edited down to two-minute form—only the crashes.



Driven is not merely the worst racing movie ever. It’s one of the worst Hollywood movies ever produced. The plot is insipid, the characters loathsome, the action unwatchable. One critic compared watching Driven to contracting a horrible skin disease, with the disease being preferable.

If there are any entertaining moments at all in Driven, they might be in the crash scenes. Each one is a hilarious violation of physics, good taste, and common sense. It’s as though producer Sylvester Stallone and director Renny Harlin (who should both be in jail for this, frankly) were attempting to invent a new form of pornographic violence but missed. Viewers will in no way be moved—except to howls of laughter.

Thank you to JaunKym (YouTube channel here) for distilling Driven to its most watchable form.

A short film about Awesomefest 2011, an incredible event held at Mallory park, no comps, just a fun weekend of driving, skating, bikes, motox and great music.
Huge thanks to Al Clark for driving his M3 chase car all day so we could get the onboard shots and a very special thanks to driftworks.com for allowing me to shoot their event.
Soundtrack : TMS - I Need You (ShockOne Remix)
Available from apple.com/itunes

Shooting car interiors against the green screen.

I’m a huge fan of projected 8mm home movies shot to video and uploaded to YouTube. I’m an even bigger fan when the film is from Oscar Koveleski collection and he narrates a lap, describing the obscured driving line, elevation changes, and corners of one of America’s great tracks. So let’s take a spin around Road Atlanta with Oscar in his Auto World McLaren M8B. I’d take his advice, this was probably filmed the weekend he took 4th in the Can-Am Road Atlanta race in September 1970.

Alfa Romeo gals dance it up. Surely they know the fine details under the hood?

2000 Civic Type R K20 swap Hybrid Racing.

Wekfest 2012 Official Tour Video San Francisco 2012 - Fort Mason. On February 19 we were fortunate to visit the famous Fort Mason Complex to check out the latest installment of the WEKFEST 2012 car show tour. Shooting car shows brought me back to my Jetspeed roots and filming with 360 video magazine days! Amazing how many people turned out at this show! Hosted by Jeri Lee and Christine Mendoza, we cover different builders and tuners ranging from the "Hellaflush" style to the evolving VIP/Air-ride movement. Interviewing the founder of the SF Japantown shows and co-creater of WEKFEST, Jr Sarmiento briefly explains the ins/outs of this epic event. Special thanks to Fatlace, Illest, Sonic MS, Team Revolution, Drive Culture, EXOTIC AIR, Alpha Squad, Phase 2 , Phil Wood Inc, ATS Garage, Downstar Inc / Bolt Boys , Speed Element & Plus-1, Dorby works

Drifting explained, now go do it.

TEST TEST TEST

After the success of the first American Touge, we conducted an open casting call for US tuner cars to appear in the sequel AT2 to be tested and driven to the limits touge style by Keiichi "Drift King" Tsuchiya and his sidekick Yasuyuki Kazama. 33 cars divided into 4 different classes were chosen to battle it out to challenge last year's "Touge Monster", Comptech NSX. Hotties Kazumi Kondo and Verena Mei co-host the show.Cars were divided into NA RWD, Turbo RWD, FR and AWD classes. Promising contenders from the first American Touge such as Hasport, Top Setup, Techno Toy Tuning, Vishnu and XS Engineering were there to avenge the Touge Monster title. Cars from grade A tuners such as the Mullerized EVO and AEM Civic Si were newly chosen along with several privateers with hopes they may have some surprises.Cast: Keiichi Tsuchiya, Yasuyuki Kazama, Kazumi Kondo and Verena MeiCars Appearing:Comptech NSX, Techno Toy Tuning AE86, Full Function AE86, Toyota MR-S, Toyota Corolla GT-S, Mazda Miata, Nissan 350Z, BMW M3, Danstoy AE86, AE86 with turbo 35GE, Vivid Racing Pepsi RX-8, Miata Turbo, MR-S 2ZZ, MR-2, High End Performance MR-S, Honda S2000, Factor X NSX, Spugen S2000, Surge 240sx, RX-7, Mini Cooper S, Import Racer RSX, Raceline USA Integra Type R, Top Setup EG6, Hasport CRX, AEM Civic Si, Endless EG6, APR Evil R, Gravel Crew WRX2.5RS, World One Performance STi, XS Engineering R34 GT-R, Speedlab STi, Crawford Performance 2.5RS, Vishnu Evo, Bozz Performance Evo, Extreme Performance Evo, Muellerized Evo, Aspec Evo and American Trackday Monster Evo.

Top 10 Worst Cars at SEMA 2012.

Anything good comes in pairs!

What makes the FIAT 500 the perfect canvas for customization? See two custom vehicles headed to the SEMA Show 2012.

SEMA 2012 first day images from AutoSpies.

Clever colorization wouldn't you say?

Next generation tuners!

Low rider graphic.

50th Anniversary Corvette. It borrows from the 1963 split window and check out the doors!

Mitsubishi concept. Crazy door arrangement that might not make it into production.

Jon Huber, the first STLSR.com Sport Tuner Shootout Series competitor under 10.00 seconds and over 140 mph.

Several tuners have created tuning packages for the Range Rover. If you are a daily reader of GTspirit you can name at least five of them. The latest in the tuning world is this Range Rover Sport with a custom wheel set. Earlier this year we saw a new hype emerge from the South-East, chrome wraps on every possible car. This trend conquered the automotive world. The eye-catching wrap was clearly not enough for this American owner. He added a custom set of 24 inch rims.

1960s "Rathman," but the motors look later, possibly snowmobile?

Nitrous Taurus Beater Car.

In 2001, Honda introduced the K-series 2.0L and 2.4L naturally aspirated engines (a 2.3L turbocharged model appeared in 2007), all of which replaced the B- and H-series engines. The motor was a godsend for tuners across the world, making it possible to reach power levels of over 250 hp with aftermarket bolt-on parts and tuning. We recently had an opportunity to test a K20A2 found in the Acura RSX Type-S on Skunk2’s DTS engine dynamometer for this month’s Power Pages at Skunk2’s headquarters in Norco, CA. The Skunk2 engine dyno has become an integral part of their R&D program, allowing them to test multiple race engines in various stages, as well as prototype parts before introducing them to the market.

Chassis dynos are fairly common among tuning shops, but locating an engine dyno can be more elusive. If you’re in need of engine dyno services to break in a new engine or to test a few bolt-on parts to see which products will net maximum power gains before attempting to drop that engine under your hood, browse the Internet to help find the nearest shop.