“Every twenty years we like to take the engine out and just check everything over,” says Jay Leno as he stands in front of the engine of his McLaren F1. The 627 horsepower naturally aspirated V12 is an impressive setup–the whole drivetrain, including the transmission, weighs less than 500 pounds. He shows us the ultra [...]

This has been a bad week for wrecks at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. We showed you three wrecks on Friday. This time it’s Ayrton Senna’s old 1986 Lotus 98T, which stacked into some hay bales. Luckily no one was hurt and it looks pretty fixable. Video after the jump and you can read more about this [...]

This Mercedes-Benz W196 Race sold today at the Goodwood Festival of Speed auction for a staggering $29.6 million, making it the most expensive car to ever be publicly auctioned. That pretty much blows away the previous record holder, a Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa that sold at Pebble Beach in 2011 for a mere  $16.4 million. [...]

The Goodwood Festival of Speed is already off to a shakey start with THREE wrecks. The list so far includes the Giugiaro Parcour concept, a Rothmans Porsche 962 and the Rod Millen Pikes Peak Toyota Tacoma. The Porsche 962 was going quite slowly quite slowly when it wrecked into a hay bale and only sustained minor damage. [...]

The nerds at Consumer Reports just did a study on the loss in fuel economy that occurs when you drive at speeds greater than 55 mph. Using five cars (an Accord four-banger, Toyota RAV4 and three different Ford Fusions) the results were quite conclusive: Driving 200 miles at 75 instead of 55 shaves an hour off [...]

Jaguar rolled out this beauty this week at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Based on a F-Type and inspired by the D-Type, the Project 7 is a one seater built to commemorate Jaguar’s seven wins at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The Project 7 features a rear fairing with an integrated rollover hoop, lowered [...]

World’s most expensive fender bender? So far this is the only image of this wreck, as reported by Jalopnik. Since this is Russia, someone somewhere must have dash cam footage. Until it pops up on LiveLeak or YouTube, we can only speculate how this happened. Still, I’m gonna put the blame on the person wearing [...]