Watch the new Honda CR-Z Mugen

Remember the Honda CR-Z Mugen we showed you a few weeks ago? Honda's just released this video of it. And it sounds rather nice.

The supercharged, hybrid-fettled Honda makes nearly 200bhp from its little 1.5-litre VTEC engine - 87bhp up from the original.
Mugen's also whittled off 50kg of pudge - the bonnet's now carbon-fibre and the wheels are lightweight Mugen alloys.
The result is 0-60 performance that Honda claims is level-pegging with its Civic Type R. 6.6 seconds, to be precise.
Which is all very nice. But we still reckon Porsche's 911 GT3 R Hybrid - replete with in-car flywheel - sounds best. Watch it here.

Any more nominations for hybrid aural pleasure, TopGear.commers?

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Watch the awesome Mazda 787B in action

The Mazda 787B Le Mans racer sounds astonishing. It can also make you faint.

In 1991, a quite-famous driver named Johnny Herbert piloted the 690bhp screamer to win the Le Mans endurance race, making Mazda the first and only Japanese carmaker to take victory at the famous Circuit de la Sarthe.

Gallery: the Mazda 787B at Le Mans 2011

To celebrate 20 years since this astonishing victory, a less-fainty Mr Herbert returned to the circuit last weekend with his Mazda to do a few celebratory laps. These laps were stupendously loud. Johnny even re-enacted his faint for authenticity, before taking to the podium.

We garnered some opinion from the audience about the Mazda's return to Le Mans. Most of it was unerringly positive. And unpublishable. Even film star Patrick Dempsey had a go in the four-rotor-engined winner. "I tried to start a relationship with it in two laps," says Dempsey.

You must hear it in action. And then you must click on the gallery of pictures of it in action. You must.

Le Mans 2011: a TopGear.com journey

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Watch: 1307bhp monster charging uphill

FACT! The Dallenbach Banks Power Pikes Peak car produces 1307bhp. But before you file that under It'll Never Handle, have a look at this video.

It shows driver, Paul Dallenbach, hurling himself up the twisty Colorado course with surprising poise. OK, so things get a bit squirly when the tarmac disappears, but unlike most other cars in the Unlimited class, it's rear-wheel drive.

The twin-turbocharged V8 monster's also been built with special military tech that compensates for the 14,110ft elevation at the finish line. Up in the clouds there's less oxygen to fund the Chevy-powered hot rod, so it uses special variable boost gubbins during the 4,4720ft ascent, which was initially developed for armored cars.

Think it’ll get to the top quicker than Rhys Millen’s Hyundai, TopGear.commers?

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Watch a man crash into busses

The man driving is known as ‘The Crusher' and this is his attempt to set the coveted Number of Up-Ended Busses You Can Push Over by Driving Into Them world record. 

Josh Beckel, as his mother knows him, had a crack at toppling four at the Evergreen Speedway in Monroe, Washington. Click below to see how he got on.

HINT: Not well.

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