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VIDEO: MINI Clubman vs. Go Kart

The MINI Clubman is everything the MINI Cooper is and more -- nine inches more. It has a passenger-side suicide door and that wide-mouth split rear gate, but everything else from its retro looks to the 172-hp turbocharged four-cylinder underhood is the same. But is it the same? Does nine inches of wheel base ruin the go kart-like handling we love so much in the MINI Cooper S? The folks over at Web Rides TV were itching to answer exactly that question, so they pitted the Mini Clubman S against a real, 9-horsepower go-kart. To give the kart a ... Read more →

Hayabusa-powered go kart redefines the term overpowered Jeremy Korzeniewski

Anybody who's ever strapped themselves into a shifter-kart can attest to the fact that they are one of the most exhilarating rides available, and their capabilities are much higher than first ...

Teenager in go-kart evades German police Merritt Johnson

A wannabe race driver lead police on a 3-mile pursuit through the streets of a German town last Friday while behind the wheel of a go-kart. The 18-year-old driver had all of seven squad cars on the ...

Proper priorities: Four-year old gets signed to pro-motorsports contract Chris Shunk

Top-level athletes are being identified at younger ages all the time, with most tennis or gymnastics prodigies being noticed by age 10. Over in the UK, motorsports are huge, and four year-old Ben ...

VIDEO: Playing indoors - Lancia Delta S4 on a kart track! Alex Nunez

How many times have you heard someone use the phrase, "That thing handles like a go-kart." Well, in the case of the Lancia Delta S4 of Group B fame, it's true. The video embedded after the jump was ...

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Formula 1: Scott Speed to race at U.S. karting Supernationals 3 years ago on Autoblog

Scuderia Toro Rosso's Scott Speed will return to his racing roots in November, sliding into a shifter kart to race in the 10th running of U.S. karting's SuperNationals in Las Vegas. Speed got his start in karting, and he's the only shifter kart pilot to win the SuperNats twice, in 2000 and 2001. ...

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Chris, Editor Paukert, and Dan send the Podcast off for the Christmas holiday in proper fashion

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