The Car Video Vault

I was watching a special on the history of the Corvette last night on the Speed Channel, so I felt it would be appropriate to post a Corvette video today. This is just a walkaround of a 1957 Corvette. This is my favorite color scheme on available on this car, the black with the red inlays on the side and red interior.

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I don’t care what Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson says about it, I think the Ferrari F50 is a beautiful and refined car. He prefers the rough-around-the-edges F40. To me, the F50 was a great leap forward from a design perspective. The Enzo feels like a minor touch-up of the F50 compared to that. Anyway, if Jeremy Clarkson happens to have a couple of these lying around that he doesn’t want anymore, send them over my way! Check out the video:

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Here’s a great video of the Ferrari FXX doing laps around the race track. The FXX is a racing version of the Ferrari Enzo. This car is definately not for people who enjoy a quiet interior. The engine screams every time the driver presses down on the accelerator. If beauty can be expressed in sound, this is it.

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This may make some sports car fanatics cringe. A speed bump was installed by the Dubai government to slow down drivers on a street popular with speed freaks. My guess is they’ll learn to slow down pretty quickly, especially the Lamborghini Gallardo that comes in at the end at what appears to be 70+ mph and flies through the air for about 100 feet or so.

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I found this great commercial for the 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1. Apparently this car was made before they had invented a way to steady a video camera, because it’s a lot more shaky than a first-person tape of the kid jumping on a trampoline. At least the car looks great as it races down some deserted highway. I wish there were open stretches of road like that in my area.

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This video might make many car nuts sick. You’ve been warned. A 14-year-old kid borrows the keys to his dad’s brand new 2007 Mustang Eleanor, a $50,000 car. See what happens when it becomes apparent that a manual shift is a little harder to work than he thought. Oh man, I’d feel so bad if it weren’t obvious these people are loaded.

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Here’s a cool video of a really cool car: the Mercedes-Benz S600 Guard armored limousine. This is the ultimate car for people who might be a target of violent attacks. It protects from gunfire, grenade attacks, various other explosives, and has run flat tires and its own air supply in case of a gas attack. Oh, and did I mention that this comes in the Mercedes-Benz S600, a top-of-the-line luxury car?

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Yesterday I brought you the race of the supercars. Today, I bring you the race of the supermachines. Which one of the following wins a race: a Porsche, an R1 motorcycle, and a fighter jet. I’ll give you a clue, the fighter jet can always win in the long run.

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Here’s a great video of some of the world’s fastest and most exotic cars on the racetrack. I’ve got to say, from this video I would have to conclude that the Acura NSX provides the most bang for the buck. It’s not every day that you get to see one race a Lamborghini Murcielago and a Ferrari 360 Modena, not to mention the Porsche Carrera.

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You’ve gotta love these old versus new match-ups at the quarter mile track. Can the big engine in a small car concept used by the Shelby 427 S/C (aka the Shelby Cobra) beat the technological advances of the Dodge Viper GTS? Watch the video and see for yourself.

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