There is no clear reason why they are called funny cars, but maybe it is the fact that their fiberglass or carbon fiber tilt-up bodies appear to be caricatures of newly available cars. But there is ...

You might not be able to swap this V-8 into your car to make it into a mean drift missile or rocket it to 60 mph in sub-three-seconds, but you could strap it to a bicycle or put it in an RC car for ...

The open-wheel cars which compete in the two major road racing and oval series in the United States, CART and the IRL, are enormously powerful machines brandishing both turbocharged and naturally ...