We're at SEMA!

Hey Folks, we're at the SEMA show through to the end of the week. We're going booth to booth with our with our camera crew filming and should start publishing for everyone over the next 24 hours. If your company is presenting and you would like for us to come by and shoot some video of your booth, fill out our suggestion form and tell us your booth number and a contact phone and we'll try to fit you in.

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Podcast: BOS "Drive By" #002: Smart Car Doughnuts

We're running around and packing up for the SEMA show this week but before we "Viva Las Vegas" I wanted to put out another quick podcast. So here is a Best of StreetFire.net "Drive-by" something that we featured here on the blog a few weeks ago. a Smart Car doing some doughnuts.... sorry the quality is so terrible, and sorry this week's episode is so short.

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Out of the mud and back on the Street

Looking at my posting history you all probably think I'm a big Mustang fan...Sure I like Mustangs but I own a Trans Am (And a Kraut car and a Crotch Rocket)...the problem is the Mustang guys keep uploading these great videos so I feel obligated to highlight them. This one is a real stand out, very solid editing and great shots. Thanks for uploading it!

[Watch what it feels like to own a 620 RWHP Car]

More ATV Madness.... SwampFire?

While on the subject of ATV Mud-Offs, heres a rather cool video that someone brought to my attention. Looks like it was uploaded a couple of weeks ago so sorry if this is a repeat for some of you....I'm more of a road racer than an off-roader, but you have to admit this looks fun.

[Watch Video: ATV Swamp Run]

Tom is calling you guys out

You know I've seen StreetFire being used to call people out before....but this is the first time I've seen a CEO of a major manufacturer use our site to call out the other guys. This I want to see. Better yet I want to see the CEO's of these ATV companies being the riders too. that would answer two questions, who makes the best product and which CEO is the best rider. Now that would be kinda cool.

[Watch Video: Polaris CEO calls out the other guys]

....Bad mofo Racing goes to the Rally

BadMoFoRacing.com have put together this great compilation piece showing highlights of KC Magazine's Buffalo Run 2006.

*sigh*, yet another cool car event that we have neither the time nor money to run in....though here's a little secret, Chris and I did apply to the Spike TV's bull run challenge (a reality TV show set in th midst of the Bullrun Rally),its looking liker we were not cool enough to cut it...oh well. It might actually be a compliment in disguise that we're not dysfunctional enough to be featured on a reality TV show.


[Watch Video: Buffalo Rally Run highlights]

New 3-Series folding Hard Top in action

The folks at Left Lane News just uploaded a video showing off the folding hardtop of the new 3-series. Really cool car, I drove a 335i with the "300 hp" turbo motor.... I put "300" in quotes because I honestly think it felt a little faster than my M3 so I'm thinking BMW under-rated this new motor a bit.

[Watch Video 3-Series Hard Top (on Left Lane News)]

Download StreetFire.net Video on iTunes

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Got an iPod? Have iTunes? Well, if you don't have iTunes, it's a free download, and it's a great way to get fresh videos downloaded to your computer automatically every day. And today a new provider has launched...(drumroll).

I'm proud to announce the "Best of StreetFire.net" Video Podcast. Every week we will be featuring top content uploaded to the site. Here is the cool thing, if you have iTunes installed you can have the new videos automatically downloaded as we release them. Simply follow this link to our iTunes page, and click the "subscribe" button.

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Now this is FAST!!!!

6 Second Street Legal Turbo CorvetteI've seen a lot of fast cars, but holy crap this one hits the wheelie bars HARD. The amazing thing is it's lurching around like a bucking bronco half way down the track into second and third....unreal....(props to Randy for finding this one)

[Watch Video: 6 Sec Turbo Vette]

Neat Video Compilation

Click to see VideoI really enjoy video compilations like this, but about 3 minutes through I saw something a bit wierd... Two people on a Hyabusa, and they switch drivers on the bike while cruising down the highway. I've been riding bikes for a while but this is the first time I've seen this trick, anyone else see this one before?

[Watch Video Compilation]

This week's spy photo round up

Here are this week's spy photos courtesy of Left Lane News.

• Spotted: Aston Martin V8 Vantage Roadster top down
• Spied: European Ford Focus RS
• New pictures: Lexus LF-H spied
• 2009 Cadillac CTS-V on the Nurburgring
• Real deal: 2009 Cadillac CTS-V spied
• Spied: 2008 Jeep Liberty undisguised
• Spied: 2008 Jeep Liberty to get retractable roof

You would have to be blind not to love the new Aston, but to be honest it's the new CTS-V that has me excited.....500+hp...woo hoo!

Old School Badness

Caprice SS
1967 Chevy NovaI really miss having a car like this sometimes. Big Car, Big Cubes, Big Carburetor.... This car just reeks cool. You almost expect Jake and Elwood Blues to be driving it.... Though they actually drove a 1974 Dodge Monaco. Anyhow cool car, check it out.

The second video, well there is nothing subtle about it at all now is there? just couldn't resist throwing in a real strip terror while on the subject of old school muscle.

[Watch Video: Caprice SS]
[Watch Video 1967 Nova]

New Audi TT 3.2

Watch Video 2007 Audi TTFirst video upload of the new Audi TT! The old TT was a design benchmark, and I'm really looking forward to seeing one of these new ones on the road. It does look more agressive than the old design, but the question is, does th performace back up that new mean look..... anyhow here is a short video someone took of their test drive in a new Audi TT. Thanks for the upload!

Monday Maserati Wake Up

Ah nothing like a trip around Hockenheim to get your week started... too bad it's someone else driving...Wish I had a support team of people setting up my car in preperation for private laps around Hockenheim in a Maserati MC12.... Must be nice.

[Watch Video: Maserati MC12]

Streetfire.net, Tell us how we're doing!

So we've tried out some new things in the past few months, the blog, going to car shows, making some of our own content... but the core of our system is the Videos, and the video system has been largely the same for over a year now. I think it's past time to run a poll to see how we're doing. I'm not really speaking toward content, I'm very pleased with how many great videos we're getting, I want to know what we can do for you to make our system better. Do you prefer to use someone else to host your videos? Why? What are they doing better? Do you like our video system over some other services? Why? What are we doing better? Let us know, so that we know what to focus on with our next round of system updates. Have an idea for a feature? Let us know. Feel like we need to fix something or clean something up? Let us know that too.

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Corvette Z06 Sunroof Conversion

Had I been keeping up with the video forum I would have seen this a week ago, sorry about that. It's been reported on CorveteForum.com that the new Z06 Vette has difficulty keeping it's topped glued on, but hey, is that really so bad? I kind of like the targa look, and apparently so do these guys... Considering the Ferrari and Lamborginis blasting past them I can only assume they're in the Gumball race or similar. Funny Video..

[Watch Video: Ripping the top off a Z06]

Extreme ATV riding

The StreetFire.net team is heading out to Las Vegas here in a few weeks for the SEMA show and I keep hearing that Nevada has some fantastic ATV parks, after seeing this vid I'm feeling inspired. Most impressive!

[Watch Video: Extreme ATV Riding]

Water Powered Bicycle

Because a Water-Rocket powered Peugeot was just too damn sane. Hopefully someone who speaks French can tell us what the top speed was, I think they say something about it toward the end.

[Watch Video: Water Powered Bicycle]

Need a soundtrack for your video? Support Creative Commons

We get a lot of great videos uploaded to StreetFire, and I can tell many of you spend weeks tweaking your videos to get them just right. But one of the more difficult things is finding that just right soundtrack, and lets be honest, a lot of artists are total dicks when it comes to letting you use their work for your video. However I just found a web site for musicians that are looking for people to download their works... for free. They want you to do mashups, samples and set their tracks to video, and a lot of this stuff is good too. So check it out, and support Creative Commons art!

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...And the Winner is

Posted Yesterday that that we would run a friendly contest, WRX vs. EVO. Video with the most new views would win.


So here are the results. When we started the WRX had 814 views and the EVO had 1,912 views. 24 hours later, and the results are.

WRX 6,555 new Views
EVO 8,813 new Views

So the Winner by a good margin is the Mitsubishi EVO IX MR Video. Congrats to the winner, sorry we don't have any cool prize to give other than bragging rights for a day. Congrats EVO lovers, and next week we'll do another View-Off.

[Watch Video: EVO]
[Watch Video: WRX]

Coolest Jet Car Ever powered by Water

Remember those old Water powered Space Rockets? Well Someone has decided to apply that same principle to a car, and I have to say it's probably the coolest drag strip run I've ever seen. At first glance this looks like a riced our Peugeot 206 CC, then POOF! BANG! and the Camera lense is full of water, LOVE IT!

[Watch Video: Water powered Jet Car]

WRX vs. EVO let the fight begin.

I just posted about a cool EVO IX MR video, so naturally I get a few dozen emails from the WRX crowd asking why I don't feature them. Gave me an idea, here is a recently upload WRX video. As of 1:16 PM EST The View count is 814 WRX and 1,912 for the EVO. We're going to have a race from now until this time tomorrow to see which one gets the most views, and tomorrow we will declare the winner as whomever has the most new NEW views since I made this post (above the numbers above).... So on your mark, get set go!

[Watch Video: EVO]
[Watch Video: WRX]

EVO IX MR

Great Video with some good editing. Not much else to say other than check it out.

[Watch Video: EVO IX MR]

StreetFire.net at Petit Le Mans 2006

What a race, it's been a week since I've heard the "woosh" of the Audi R10 or the growl of the Corvettes doing battle with the Aston Martins, but I'm still excited about seeing that race. The StreetFire.net team had a great time covering the event and I promise you that we'll release video clips that we shot over the next few months. For now here is our photo gallery from the race along with some video submissions from you guys.

A special thanks goes out to "atye" for uploading an astonishing 14 videos. Great stuff I especially like the Video of the Aston and Vette having a tussel.

[Photo Gallery and Video Gallery 2006 Petit Le Mans]

PhotoChop Contest!

Okay Pixel Pushers, Shreddin'tread has thrown down the gauntlet by issuing a PhotoChop challenge on this lovely 2007 Audi S3. He even chose a color that makes it nice and easy with very little reflection. The Prize? A high-resolution background image library. Additionally we're going to sweeten the pot by offering up one of our few remaining StreetFire.net T-Shirts that we made for NOPI (Size XL)....sorry I'm fresh out of T-Shirts that read "I won the Streetfire.net Photochop Challenge and I all I got was the this stupid T-Shirt".

All submissions have to be in, within 5 days, so get go'n!

[StreetFire.net PhotoChop Challenge Rules and Source Files]

Some Laps Around Spa in Belgium

Did you know, that if you did a Google search on Belgium, that the #1 hit is the CIA "fact book" web site? Pretty wired huh? If you were to ask me what I thought the #1 hit should be for "Belgium" I would say... well to be honest I would say "Chocolate", but coming in a very very close second would be my favorite non-Monaco Grand Prix track, Spa. It is simply a gorgeous track with wonderful elevation changes and beautiful scenery. So check out this very well done video from the team at Car-Inside and see one of the world's great tracks. Thanks for the upload guys!

[Watch Video: Spa, Belgium]
[Web Site: Car-Inside]

Ford GT with some nice mods

Really cool video of a Ford GT tearing it up. According to the description it's sporting 20" front 22" rear rims along with an Ohlin suspension. Look'n good :-)

[Watch Video: Ford GT]

Caught: 2008 Nissan GT-R

...And here I was starting to find myself looking at the new twin turbo BMW 3-series coupe, and then suddenly I see this... this car looks almost identicle to the GT-R Proto shown last year.....which is great news. Lots of pics after the jump. ...LOVE this car, can't wait for it to hit the streets.

[2008 Nissan GT-R] (Left Lane News)

Acura to go racing in American Le Mans Series

Making it's Debut at the 2006 Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta, Acura unveiled their 2007 entry into the ALMS series, as well as announcing the drivers, Adrian Fernandez and Luis Diaz.

[Watch Video Acura debuts ALMS racer]

Bavarian Burn Out Take 2

If you love BMW's you'll probably love BMWPower.hu. They just uploaded this video and it's just full of e30 drifting goodness.

Anyhow for some reason the Flash Encoder didn't like this one, so sorry folks, Windows Media only on this one.

[Watch Video: BMWPower.hu Team - Drifttaxi]

Bavarian Burn Out

Hello Friday, took a little bit of a break from posting to catch up on some business...and to recover from Petit Le Mans (hope to have that up eventually). Grabbed my morning coffee and found this lovely murder of a $1000 set of exotic car tires.

The e39 M5 has become one of my favorite cars of all time, and checking the used car prices they're now getting cheaper than a new Vette so finally, mere mortals can afford them. I think we'll see more and more Bavarian Hoodlum-isms as the years go by and especially if the ever reach "pull a fast one over on mom and dad and get one of these for highschool"-Cheap.....

[Video: Bavarian Tire Bake]

TunerVlog Episode 2 - U.S. Drift at Greensboro, NC

After their first video covering a very trick S2000, TunerVlog returns with their second video all neatly wrapped in smoke and screaching tires. Great camera work, I love the "drifter's eye view" through the cones cam. Very nice perspective. FWIW I tried to talk these cats into coming down to Atlanta last weekend for the Petit Le Mans, and they said they had an event to cover, I didn't realize it was going to be this type of drifting. I mean the only thing I love more than watching a race is being in it myself, so I compleatly understand why they took a pass now :-)

PS For some reason the Flash version of this video has not come out of the oven... I mean encoder yet. So for now, Windows Media version only.. Which isn't so bad really. Little trick if you double click inside the screen of the widows Media version it should play in full screen.

[Watch Video, TunerVlog Episode 2]
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