Lexus LFA Review, Jay Leno in an Escalade-V, A 1,300-HP Civic: The Best Automotive Videos on YouTube This Week

I didn’t know that Chris Harris owned a Polestar 1. I didn’t expect him to go for something like that. In the latest video from Collecting Cars, Harris goes over his ownership experience with the Polestar 1. He mentions that Polestar told him that he owns the only example sold in the UK, which says a lot.

It was only a matter of time before one of the most famous car guys in the world got his hands on the biggest, most powerful Cadillac ever. Leno is a huge Cadillac fan, so I wouldn’t be surprised if he buys one of these things. I would.

I know the LFA has been out of production for a while now, but it doesn’t hurt to be reminded of just how great it was. Someone lent their privately-owned LFA to YouTuber EddieX to review. Do yourself a favor and check it out. Once you hear that glorious V10 exhaust, you’ll know it was worth it.

What happens when you drop a 1,300-hp Mitsubishi engine and all-wheel drive in a sixth-generation Civic hatchback? A wild wreck that someone was lucky to walk away from, as That Racing Channel shows.

POV (Point of View) driving videos are great, especially if its a car you’ll probably never get to drive yourself. They literally put you in the driver’s seat of the car, and allow you to experience everything from the dashboard design to a bit of the performance. Tedward got a chance to drive an original NSX through a Southern California canyon and its every bit as great as you’d expect.

A 2013 Maserati GranTurismo with just 30,000 miles should be pretty flawless, right? Nope. Car Wizard managed to get under this low-mile GranTurismo that a local dealer sent to him to fix up before they listed it for sale. It’s got problems. Apparently those low miles were due to the car sitting for a long time, and now that it’s being driven again, things are starting to come loose — and leak.

Larry Kosilla from auto detailing channel AMMO NYC got a chance to get his hands on a rare performance pickup, the GMC Syclone. This example has just 278 miles on it, so it’s extremely mint. But it also has super-thin paint, meaning Kosilla had a tricky time giving this pickup its first deep-clean in its entire life.

The dudes at Hoonigan got their hands on that monster four-rotor Mazda RX-7 again. This time the muscular Mazda went up against an equally powerful beast: an Audi TT RS with 1,200 horsepower.

The sixth-generation Honda Civic is loved by tuners the world over. They’re cheap, parts for them are plentiful and they’ll run just about forever. And if you get your hands on one to tune it, you’ll have something really special. Automotive Anatomy got to ride along in one owner’s clean Honda Civic EK hatch as he detailed what he did to achieve what he thinks is one of the best Civic builds around.

The lucky bastards at Top Gear got their hands on the next generation of performance in the Renault R5 Turbo 3E. It’s a powerful electric tribute to the Renault 5 Turbo and Turbo 2 homologation specials from the 1980s. They describe it as not blindingly fast, but very capable with a communicative chassis.