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By now you may have heard the news that our favourite tofu-sculpting, internationally renowned yodelling ninja Moog has been given the opportunity of a lifetime: he got to drive Marty’s Mira after consuming two greasy KFC slop boxes! Actually, he’s also been named as one of the three hosts of the new series of Top Gear Australia. But this is NOT the end of MCM. More than 16 years since it kicked-off, and a billion views deep, the show we all know and love will go on, epic cars will be built, and amazing adventures undertaken. So, what’s all this...

If you've watched our latest video on K-swapping a mint EK Civic (CLICK HERE) you may we be engaging the frothzilla for your own piece of booo-BAAAA glory. So, we've put down all the parts used to build our sweet EK Civic streeter.  This car started as a 2000 model Civic GLi, an auto D16 non-VTEC single-cam base model. We did some work to get it looking and handling its best thanks to EK9 Civic Type-R kit and Enkei RPF-1 15in wheels.  The K-series engine we used is a K24A3 from a mouldy, festy Aussie market Accord Euro. We sold the...

All car enthusiasts want their car to be unique. Whether it be a set of one-off wheels, the only engine conversion of its type, a custom paint colour or kit, we all want our car to be something individual. But how do you do that your project is a popular late-model car you see many other variants of?  You look overseas! Every car manufacturer has, at some point, sold a version of their production cars not available in a particular market. Australia missed out on plenty of special edition high-performance Japanese and European machinery, while America never scored the full...

The Toyota Camry is renowned the world over for its own particular brand of bland, soul-less transport. But there was one time we came painfully close to scoring a high-performance special edition Camry chock full of turbo awesomeness from Toyota's Celica GT-Four rally car! Back in the mid-late '80s the world was getting their teeth into the awesome Group A era. Many of our most loved and legendary performance cars came to be as manufacturers had to homologate a certain number of road-going versions to make their spicy racing ones legal for competition, and Toyota were right there amongst it. ...

The sweet-smelling, high-octane awesomeness of E85 gets us excited. It really is an awesome option for people wanting to squeeze more go out of their turbocharged or supercharged cars but it does have a few drawbacks. Firstly, compared to regular unleaded you'll use 30% more to travel the same distance and that's down to the chemical make-up of the fuel. Secondly, ethanol is a form of alcohol and it will destroy any rubber hoses or seals not made to withstand alcohol, leading to fuel leaks, blocked fuel filters, trashed fuel pumps and injectors, and more.  The good news is it's not impossible...