Author Archives: Jake Stumph

Porsche 918 Decimates All Down the 1320

You know, as well as I do, that the Porsche 918 Spyder is one seriously fast car. With it’s combination of all-wheel drive, a hybrid-assisted screaming V8 engine and Porsche’s absurdly quick PDK gearbox, it’s no surprise that the car can out-accelerate just about anything on the road. Less known is how consistently fast that [...] More »

2017 Chevy Camaro SS 1LE: Pretty Pictures and a Hot Lap

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Our irreverent friends over at Car & Driver wrapped up their Lightning Lap test at Virginia International Raceway last month, where the surprise delights of the event were the 1LE package equipped Camaros. Both the V6 and SS were seriously fast automobiles and handily dispatched of much more powerful and much more expensive hardware. The [...] More »

Regular Car Reviews Meets Modified FRS

This is not a regular car, or is it? Regular Car Reviews has occasionally branched out to visiting local vendors of the Pennsylvania area and reviewing their not-so regular shop cars. Up today is Raceseng, an automotive parts fabricator and machine shop, known for suspension setup and smaller bits like shift knobs. Their FRS shop [...] More »

Corvette C7 Z06 vs. Porsche 918

Here are the headline figures: The C7 generation Corvette Z06 is a $100,000 American sports car featuring a 6.2L supercharged LT4 small block Chevy V8 making 650 horsepower and 650 ft./lb. of torque and it weighs about 3,500 pounds, you probably knew this. For comparison, the Porsche 918 Spyder is an $850,000 European sports car, [...] More »

This 996 GT3 Club Sport Has 50,000 Track Miles on It

No, that was no typo, fifty-thousand on-track miles, or as the Europeans describe it, 80,000 kilometers. With an odometer reading of 230,000KMs this 996 GT3 Club Sport has withstood the test of time. Boosted Boris is back again, reporting from the Nurburgring in Germany, where a truly spectacular oddity has emerged from the crowd [...] More »

BTCC Champion Jason Plato Tests Toyota GT86

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British Touring Car Championship winner Jason Plato has done many cool things, between being an active racing driver for the past 20 years to being a host of British motoring program Fifth Gear. Today’s Internet video of choice is a look back to when Plato reviewed the European-spec Toyota GT86 for Fifth Gear. Plato [...] More »

2016 Cadillac CTS-V Decimates Rear Tires

Q: What happens when you attempt to channel 640 horsepower through the rear tires? A: Fun. Unleashing the fury of the supercharged LT4 V8 engine is difficult to do in public spaces, 5 seconds of fun could result in jail time. Until those anti-American/anti-Freedom laws are repealed, the best place to to destroy tires is [...] More »