2008 CHP 11-99 Rally

speedandmotion can always be counted on to be at SoCal's best car gatherings and this one is no different.

If you own a fast and exotic car in Southern California, and are known to edge above the speed limit every once in a while, chances are you are a fully paid-up member of the CHP 11-99 foundation. This charitable organization, benefiting California Highway Patrol family members, also benefits those that contribute to the non-profit with less-harsh fines meted out at the roadside.

And, for good measure, there's an annual rally complete with CHP escorts (presumably with their radars turned off).

What sort of member cars showed up? Figure on pretty much every Ferrari, Lamborghini and Porsche you can think of, and add a Maserati MC12 for good measure!


Since all the cars are, unsurprisingly, going past the camera pretty quickly, click here for pics of the cars in attendance.

Rich People's Garages

Ever dream of opening your garage door one day and there's the car of your dreams inside? That's pretty much what mattzooooom has put together for us. Except it's cars, plural. We're not sure what all these lucky people did in order to stock their 3- and 4-door garages (and barns and warehouses) with such fine examples of sheetmetal, but we wanna know!

In the meantime, see what Rich People's Garages look like. Hint: they've generally got at least 1 Italian exotic, 1 German luxury sedan and a pristine American muscle car inside.

To better understand why someone would shell out $200k+ on one of these things (as if they need a justification), see what Tiff Needell had to say about the F430 Scuderia

MHT Forged Wheels...plus Tiffany and Jennifer

Icon Media has been having another tough day at the office. We thought we had it bad but some guys just have no luck at all...

A sleek white studio, two bright red sportscars and two leggy models pouting and posing in sleek black shorts and little black tops, with just enough bits on show that you don't totally forget to check out the rims.

Boy, they're gonna need to lie down after such a taxing shoot for MHT Forged Wheels with Tiffany and Jennifer.

If you'd rather have basically nothing left to the imagination, check out the Nopi Bikini Contest

Supercars at Cars and Coffee

We're glad that SpeedandMotion likes to get up early on the weekends, otherwise we'd miss out on a bunch of supercars all meeting up.

Cars & Coffee is just about the perfect way to spend the morning: a cup of Java accompanied by the dulcet tones of Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Ford GTs, Shelby Mustangs and any number of other cars you wouldn't mind having in your garage.

We always thought that Lambos have a fairly limited production run, but you wouldn't know if from this video! Positively common, at least in SoCal. Did we leave any for the rest of the country?

Yes! Well, we found one, and it's keeping some very high-octane company over in Florida. See how the East coast rolls when it's a SSC Aero vs. a Gallardo LP640

Honda Civic vs. Ferrari

Motion Racing is very proud of its Honda Civic 2000 and rightly so!

Ride along as driver Frederick Savard chases down a Ferrari at the St. Eustache track. The Honda's running a 1.8 liter v-Tec N/A motor but is that enough to catch the Prancing Horse up ahead?

Watch Honda vs. Ferrari to find out.

For a match-up that's more like the equivalent of winning the lottery, watch Fifth Gear's 'tough day at the office' with the McLaren F1 & Ferrari Enzo . Lucky bastards.

Bullrun 2008 - Behind the Scenes Pt 1

The most glamorous rally in the world, Bullrun ran from Calgary to Scottsdale in June 2008, with 50 teams covering 3700 miles of stunning scenery, all seen from inside their cars at triple digit speeds, and Best of Streetfire was there to capture all the action.

Richard Rawlings, Bullrun veteran, prankster, previous rally winner and, this year, running in a Chevy Caprice outfitted with a 6 liter Escalade motor, is having serious fuel pump issues.

Aaron, his chief mechanic and navigator, tries his best to fix the green beast at the side of the road, but the car needs some TLC and some new parts. An overnight stop in the small town of Seeley Lake, where the locals ain't never seen nothing like these dudes before, gives them the tools and parts they need to get back on the road and catch up to the rest of the Bullrunners.

Bullrun 2008: Behind the Scenes Part 1 or "why you should take a new car on a 3700 mile rally"!

VOD Cars in HD

Brought to you by VOD Cars.
VOD Cars is back with their second HD episode.

Today's show features lots of horsepower from Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Porsche... as well as an out of control Viper, an insane open-wheel street car that's NOT an Ariel Atom, and some great tunnel shots at the end of the episode. You just gotta watch it.

If you want to get the episode in pure, unadulterated HD, you can download it here. If you've got an Apple TV connected to your big-screen HD TV, you can get the HD-only feed of VOD Cars, with new episodes every Friday, you can subscribe for free via iTunes. Of course, if you've got an HD vid you want included in an upcoming episode, all you have to do is send it in!

LP560-4 & Other Exotics On A Night Run

Looks like Hovik 's been having a good time with his buddies over on the East Coast.

Nothing beats getting together with some friends in your respective rides and taking a drive, en masse, on some of your local roads.

If the turnout for this ride is anything to go by, it's a popular past time in NY! Various Vipers, Porsches, Ferraris, Corvettes, BMWs, a Quattroporte and, of course, the LP560-4 hit the road as the sun goes down and the engines rev up.

Tag along with the LP560-4 & Other Exotics

For a proper look at the latest from the Bull, watch the Lamborghini LP560-4 Promo

580HP Golf III Takes on Some Supercars

We have Stocki023 for this on-track action and while we could have done without the "Knight Rider on Speed" music, the driving is fairly impressive.

Any day you can take a 580hp Turbo Golf III out on the track and beat some supercars at their own game is a pretty good day.

The car has amazing straight line acceleration and our driver isn't afraid of some late braking, either. Nice job!

Watch the VW Golf III VR6T Destroy Some Supercars

Click here for some less-friendly Golf on Golf action

Tanner Foust: Top Gear USA Host

If you're any sort of car fan, you're a Top Gear fan and, like us, have been waiting to see if all the Top Gear USA talk is real. Well, turns out, it is.

And, along with Adam Carolla and some bloke we've barely heard of, drift racer and X Games Champ, Tanner Foust, is stepping in front of the camera and, we imagine, into the American shoes of Richard Hammond.

And, thanks to SpeedEngineBlock we can get an idea of what Tanner's like in front of the camera rather than behind the wheel.

Seems he's trying to move up in the world if this clip from SuperCars Exposed is anything to go by. Seriously, you can glide a car around a track, compete in the Pikes Peak Hill Climb and you don't know how to wash a car? Dude, get a grip!

Turns out the rich guy who's interested in buying an exotic isn't too impressed with Tanner's sales technique but perhaps that's a good thing. Unlike other car shows that gloss over the details and never tell you if a car is crap, maybe this means the US version of our favorite show will continue the British tradition of not pulling any punches or genuflecting to advertisers. We can but hope.

Check out Tanner's sales pitch in Supercars Exposed: How To Sell A Ferrari

Bullrun Rally 2007 Episode #6

More action courtesy of Bullrun as we catch up with the 2007 rally en route from Montreal to Key West.

We last left the Bullrunners at their lunchtime stop in Concord, VA, where a hearty BBQ lunch was followed by a tire-smoking drift demo, just the sort of dessert that every petrolhead loves.

The teams then head South, again, bound for Savannah, GA, a genteel town that's never seen the likes of this lot before.

Progress is hampered by seemingly every State Trooper being out on patrol, plus a few unmarked cars that are trying to sneak up on our supposedly unsuspecting Bullrunners. However, plenty of counter measures (plus a relay of phone calls) alerts the pack to the wolf in their midst.

Meanwhile, Team Texas' Richard Rawlings & Dennis Collins are flying into Savannah from LA. Having shattered the cross-country record, they're now intent on beating all the rallyers to the Georgia checkpoint, too.

Back out on the road, Team Audi thinks back roads are the key to coming in first...until they realize they're nearly out of gas. But the prize for competing with true Bullrun spirit goes to David from Team Make-A-Wish who's just paid $2,500 to get bailed out of jail in Virginia. Ah well, at least he got a nice commemorative photo wearing his prison stripes and handcuffs!

It's not a race, it's a rally...but if you get caught speeding, try telling that to the nice officer with the handcuffs.


Watch Bullrun Rally 2007 Episode 6 of 10 .

Bullrun Rally 2007 Episode 1 of 10

This is the first of 10 episodes covering the Bullrun Rally 2007 that we'll be releasing over the next 5 weeks. This video is full of hot exotics like Lamborghini's, Vipers, Lotus', crazy dudes and hot girls.

Until now these videos were only shown on TV overseas or on DVD. Check back on Monday for Episode 2, exclusively on StreetFire!

Brought to you by Bullrun.

VIDEO:Exotics Rally Crew Quick Run in NYC

Brought to you by Hovik.

Hey this one is nicely done by Dreamin' TV for Exotics Rally. Exotics Rally was founded in July, 2007, for auto enthusiasts who have similar interests in cars, travel, driving, and evening activities. The rallies have been held mainly in the Manhattan area but they are branching out into other parts of the US.

The video: It's an "Exotic" night run through Manhattan. The video offers great visuals. You'll see a couple of Murcielagos, a Gallardo Superleggra, Carrera GT, and GT3Rs. There is footage of the cars seriously smoking the other traffic, but mostly the Exotic owners are having a blast just driving. And who can get enough of that Lambo roar you hear about one minute thirty-four to one minute forty-five seconds into the clip? About five minutes in the vivid images start to become softer and mimic fantasy. Pretty cool! An exotic 'car' fantasy world! Then later on all that horsepower verberates off concrete as they go through tunnels. Toward the end of the video see some "Exotic-struck" fans trying to get some snapshots standing in front of one of the Murcielagos.

View the Exotics Rally Crew Quick Run in NYC video.

Video: Car-Parazzi at CHP 11-99 Foundation Run '07

Brought to you by Car-Parazzi.

The CHP (California Highway Patrol) 11-99 Foundation was created to provide assistance to current, retired and Fallen in the Line of Duty CHP employees and their families. The guys from Car-Parazzi were at their latest run through the beautiful Southern California canyons. With just about every exotic car in production today at the event, it's definitely something worth seeing.

A proper response to the question "will I see my favorite supercar in this video" would simply be "what color would you like it in." It's the who's who of exotics. You'll see everything from an original GT-40, to today's rarest production cars like the Ferrari Enzo and the Bugatti Veyron.

It's kind of funny at 2:24 when a motorcyclist going in the opposite direction decides to turn around in the middle of the road to follow the line of cars. Everyone wants to be a part of the run.

View the CHP 11-99 Foundation '07 Run video.

History of Ferrari Video

Brought to you by TorqueMan.

Make sure you check out this cool video that gives a little insight into the majestic world that we all know as Ferrari. It begins with a brief history lesson on Enzo Ferrari himself and discusses how his vision changed the automobile world forever.

View the Ferrari History video.

A Street Legal Ferrari FXX

Brought to you by our boys at Fast Lane Daily.

Derek D gives our daily dose of Fast Lane Daily. Ford is in talks to bring back the Bullit Mustang while a street legal Ferrari FXX is discussed in the Internet rumor mill.

Watch the Ferrari FXX Video.

Dream Garage

Here is a video brought to you by suggett.

I wouldn't mind having my garage filled with any of these cars. How about you?

Supercar Video

Ferrari/Shell Commerical

Brought to you by stephoane .

Here's a quality Ferrari/Shell gasoline video.

Ferrari Video

Ferarri F50 Drifting

Brought to you by badboy07.

Here's a good clip of a Ferrari F50 drifting.

Ferarri F50 Video]

Ferrari 550 Maranello the Movie

Love seeing well edited videos. Love even more seeing a prancing horse. The 550 is one of those great Ferrari's because it heralded the company moving back to a front engine layout for their range topping car. In many ways the front engine lay out and conservative design is the antithesis of the Testarossa which is the car it replaced. The pendulum seams to be swinging back toward more gregarious styling with the 599GTB. Next to that the 550 reminds me of my favorite front engine Ferrari the Daytona....ah what a car..... Anyhow, so check out this great video of the modern classic Ferrari, the 550.


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