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With their shared love of rare, niche nuggets built in far away lands, Marty and MOOG have both had the not-small job of tracking down spare parts and mad mods to suit their cars. This is why we haven't seen the Nissan March Super-Turbo until TODAY'S MAD NEW EPISODE as the lads finally get to crack open some cool new purchases. Sometimes the time it takes to find and ship parts means delays in bringing videos out as parts have to be specially ordered, or shipped tens of thousands of kilometres to get to the land of Kangaroos and backwards-flushing...

In the latest episode (see it HERE) of Mighty Car Mods we see MOOG's VW RS3 run on the dyno and some people will be wondering if a stock RS3 is rated by Audi at 394hp (294kW), why did MOOG's car make LESS than that after all those mad Revo mods?  Actually, kids, it didn't. *SPOILER ALERT* DON'T READ ANY FURTHER ON IF YOU HAVEN'T WATCHED THE VIDEO AND WANT TO KNOW HOW MUCH POWER MOOG MADE When manufacturers display how much power a car produces, they are claiming this as measured at the crankshaft, not at the wheels or hubs like...

As soon as MCM's latest episode hit the Tubes of You a wailing and gnashing of keyboards was heard across the world as some aggrieved viewers demanded Marty and MOOG "go back to working on nuggets". But, what is considered a nugget in 2021? We live in strange times, when the common 1990s Japanese performance cars many of us grew up buying and selling for a pittance are now sought-after classics. Values for iconic cars like Nissan's R32-R34 Skyline GT-R, Toyota's JZA80 Supra, and even Honda's DC2 Integra Type R have surpassed many traditional "classic cars" like Chevy Camaros, Minis, and even old...

While the Internet debates whether MOOG's new RS3 daily driver is a nugget or not (you can check out THE LATEST EPISODE HERE), plenty of people are missing a great opportunity to learn about the 100% undistilled awesomesauce that is the Audi in-line five-cylinder engine.  These sonorous, warbling beasts have been around for over four decades now, and have gone through numerous upgrades in that time, just in factory tune.  First gaining fame in the 1980 UR Quattro as a 2.2-litre single-overhead-cam unit, they have retained the in-line five and turbocharged layouts through the years, and now thanks to the wizardry of modern...

If you have watched the LATEST VIDEO ON MOOG'S NEW CAR (click HERE) then you'll see plenty of frothing over a turbo five-cylinder all-wheel-drive Audi. But what makes them so special?  While Audi has built mega-fast cars using four, six, eight and even 10 cylinders they are most famous for their turbocharged in-line five-cylinder engines, which date back over 40 years to the 1980 UR Quattro. From its humble beginnings as a 197hp production motor, it quickly grew into a fearsome race engine making over 600hp that dominated the WRC, IMSA and Trans-Am series, eventually being banned from them. The UR...