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For anyone with a spare 45 minutes, this documentary from National Geographic on the Nissan GT-R lineage is a must watch.

From its history, to its development and the record-breaking Nurburg-blitz, this video covers every detail surrounding the legendary Nissan GT-R supercar.

Let’s be honest for a second, even if you can’t stand Vin Diesel’s lack of talent, you’ve always made time to see the Fast & Furious movies, be it for the cars, girls, or the girls on cars. So now there is a new one and the original crew are back. Here is the official trailer.

Fast & Furious

Also note, Subaru’s WRX STI has taken the place of Mitsubishi’s Evo as the “hero” car with the new STi featured heavily in the film.

While Top Gear UK may currently be on hiatus, Clarkson has been busy working on his newest DVD to stem the withdrawal symptoms of rabid fans.

In case a Clarkson DVD is a foreign concept to you, it is basically identical to Top Gear - just with more Clarkson.

Yet another shock tactic TV campaign was launched last night in an attempt to stop the motoring public “creeping” over the speed limit.

The ad was put together from actual footage collected from CCTV cameras and footage sourced directly after road crashes in the state of South Australia and uses horror movie music and snippet filming to portray those who drive slightly over the speed limit as “creepers”.

Watch the Mazda3 MPS as it secures a worthy victory in the showroom class at this year’s Tasmanian tarmac challenge.

Driven by 20-year-old rally star Brendan Reeves and his co-driving sister Rhianon Smyth, the MPS3 finished eighth outright, secured a convincing showroom win and a top ten finish after two intense days of racing.

Before we bring you our full ten minute video of the new Aston Marin V8 Vantage Coupe and Roadster, we’ve put together a small teaser of what we got up to in our drive of the Vantage last week.

Make sure you read the Aston Martin V8 Vantage review and also check out the Aston Martin DBS video we filmed a few months ago in North Queensland.

In the lead up to the first Formula 1 Singapore Grad Prix night race, SPEED TV has created a virtual lap of the track with driver and narrator Mark Webber taking us through all 24 corners of this amazing circuit.

Martin Whitmarsh, CEO F1 Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, gives us a sneak peek at the changes being made to Lewis Hamilton’s F1 car in preparation for the Singapore Grand Prix night race - including a set of four high-powered spotlights.

In case you haven’t realised, this video is a send up - good to see the McLaren team have a sense of humour, now just wait for the Force India team to line up on the grid with an identical set of spot lights.

For those of you who have perused the ‘About Us’ section of CarAdvice, you may have noticed our very own Anthony Crawford was an Executive Producer of an Australian car show called ‘Behind the Wheel’.

Now I’m not going to lie - I had never seen or even heard of the show before, but I was certainly pleasantly surprised after I had seen the pilot episode on an old VHS tape.

Only a few more sleeps to go until the first episode of Top Gear Australia finally airs on September 29.

In the meantime, here is the full two minute teaser leading up to the first season - looks very promising.

It may have been knocked back from entering the US market due to its confliction with the existing Golf GTi, but Volkswagen’s stunning Scirocco has just been flogged by the guys at Fifth Gear and it comes up trumps.

Utilising Golf GTi running gear, the Scirocco benefits from a lower wider and sexier body amongst a few other neat tricks which Tom Ford happily demonstrates in this video.