Awesome Rally

After teasing us with a concept car, Lamborghini is producing its rally-capable Huracán Sterrato. The AWD supercar is powered by a 601 hp V10 engine and has had its suspension lifted by 1.73 inches to increase ground clearance. It rolls on all-terrain tires and has badass body cladding and fog lights. Just 1499 will be produced.

If you’ve never experienced the Tail of the Dragon, you owe it to yourself to ride down to Tennessee or North Carolina and take a spin. Though there’s little chance that you’ll drive it as quickly as RallyCross champ Scott Speed, who slayed the dragon’s 318 curves and 11 miles in his Red Bull Subaru rally car. (Thanks, Patrick!)

Like the first-gen RS Q E-Tron rally car, the latest incarnation of Audi’s badass hybrid rally car uses its gas engine to charge its battery and drive its motors. It also has a lifted suspension for traversing rugged terrain, a widened stance and lower center of gravity to help keep it more stable, along with greatly-improved aerodynamics.

Clarkson, Hammond, and May continue their across the globe, this time taking on Norway. The gang takes us on a wild, chilly, and incident-filled rally above the Arctic Circle in a used Mitsubishi Lancer Evo VIII, Subaru Impreza WRX STI, and an Audi RS4 B7. Premieres 9.16.2022 on Amazon Prime Video.

Morgan’s two-seaters are usually driven on tracks or for touring. But the Plus Four CX-T can take drivers across rugged off-road terrain. Built with Rally Raid UK, the car has a custom suspension offering 9″ of ground clearance, larger tires, skid plates, and a rear storage area for tools and spare tires. Just eight of the cars will be produced.

This awesome Porsche 911 was built by Singer for its All-terrain Competition Study. Working with rally expert Richard Tuthill they created the car based on a 1990 Type 964, strengthened its core, upgraded its suspension, brakes, tires, engine, and gearbox to survive punishing off-road events like the Baja 1000 and Dakar Rally.

Rally races can be incredibly dangerous. They require precise coordination between driver and co-driver to negotiate countless twists and turns along the way. One wrong move and you’re off the course or worse. In the case of this rally in Russia, it seems nobody got this corner radius right. Isn’t this the point of recce before a race?

Built by STARD Austria for the FIA’s World Rallycross Projekt E series the Ford Fiesta ERX is an impressive pure electric race car capable of hitting 60 mph in just 1.8 seconds. Watch as pro driver Ken Block puts its 600 hp and 800 lb-ft. of torque to the test on the track, then leaves just a bit of rubber on the tarmac.

This stylized racing game from the creator of Absolute Drift lets you hoon about challenging courses in classic drift cars. The finished game will offer more than 50 cars, 60 stages, a career mode, weekly challenges, and online leaderboards. Best of all, they’ve released a short playable demo offering a glimpse of what’s to come.

Jaguar’s sporty two-seater got a makeover as a proper rally car, complete with a 1.6-inch suspension lift, grooved disc brakes, a roll cage, racing seats, quad rally lights, a limited-slip diff, and a mechanical handbrake for sliding through corners.

Ken Block and his team’s daring stunt driving videos have taken on a life of their own. The team feels the pressure to one-up themselves each time, but everyone has a limit. Go behind the scenes with Amazon’s The Gymkhana Files. Premieres 11/16/18.

Porsche Motorsport is showing off a rally-equipped concept version of its Cayman GT4 Clubsport racer. The 385hp racer has a sweet quad LED light pack on the hood, a ventilation scoop over the cabin, and a roll cage inside. We’d love to see Porsche in rally racing again.

Red Bull showcases Team Peugeot’s 2018 Dakar Rally vehicle. The Peugeot 3008 DKR Maxi is nearly 8″ wider than its predecessor for an even more stable ride. Watch it slide, slice and soar through sand and gravel in this sweet slow-motion video.

This mud- and rock-loving Bentley was built for the Nat Geo UK series Supercar Megabuild, and now it can be yours. It’s got an external roll cage with tire and jerry can storage, off-road suspension, lug tires, skid plates, racing lights and more. See it in action here.

Footage from the 2017 Rally Islas Canarias, during which driver Tomasz Kasperczyk overshot the line coming around a bend and could have easily tumbled down a deadly cliff. Thankfully, unlike some rally courses, there’s a guard rail on this course.

The long-awaited installment of the premiere rally racing sim is almost here. DiRT 4 features over 50 vehicles, simulation and arcade modes, more rallycross levels and a level creator for infinite replayability. Drops 6/6/17 for Windows, Xbox One and PS4.

It’s every rally driver’s worst nightmare – an animal runs into the middle of the course. Most of the time it results in a nasty collision or the car running off the road to avoid it. Not so for this scrappy pup, and equally lucky rally drivers, who must have someone looking out for them.

UTV Underground is offering a handful of guests the opportunity to enjoy epic off-road baja racing, accommodations, and gourmet food and drink. The first trip takes place 9/23-9/25/16 at the stunning Horsepower Ranch in Ensenada, Mexico.

Jalopnik takes a look at three classic rally cars to illustrate the differences between automotive drivetrains, and how rally racing serves as a proving ground for tech in production vehicles. We don’t care if it’s only front-wheel drive – we want that SAAB 96.

Pro rally driver Ryan Millen proves that the Toyota RAV4 is way more capable than its grocery getter image. We watched him drive his largely stock RAV4 to 1st place in his class and 3rd place overall in the 2015 Mt. Hood Rally. Read more about our adventure on 95octane.

New for 2016, this monster hot hatch features a 2.3L EcoBoost engine that can produce more than 320hp, an all-wheel drivetrain and torque vectoring system that should make hooning about like Ken Block easier than ever.

During a recent rally run at the 2014 Rally Ourense in Spain, driver Oscar Barroso took a corner with amazing style, pulling two wheels off the ground as he came around the bend in his Suzuki Swift. Another view here.

Helicopter fly-overs provide one of the coolest perspectives on rally races. In this clip, the chopper pilot demonstrates his impressive flying abilities, keeping up with every move of the drivers below. More footage here.