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Car collector Michael Axon brings his 1958 Lotus 11 to the Malibu Coffee and Cars event. BMW documents its time at the 2015 Nürburgring 24 Hours. The 2014 MINI Dakar race car thrashes it out on the snow.

At the 2013 LA Auto Show, Porsche debuted the new 918 Porsche Spyder Hybrid. This Porsche was enclosed within a glass booth, with highly impressed fans milling around trying to get a glimpse of this new super car. In this third and final part of the series, we see the team from Bentley Motorsport continue their efforts at achieving a finish at the grueling 2014 Spa 24 Hours with a pair of Bentley Continental GT3 cars. Chris Reinke, the head of Audi LMP program, talks about this year’s car benefiting from the efficient combination of the V6 TDI engine, e-tron quattro hybrid drive, and the new aerodynamics, as they come to SPA and then head to LE MANS.

Recently introduced at the 2015 Shanghai Motor Show, this new Mercedes AMG GT comes with a new 4.0 lire V8 biturbo, with zero to 100km.h in 3.8 seconds and a top speed of 310 km/h. Racer Frank Mons and his son bring their rare British classic racer, the ELVA MKVI, to the Buttonwillow race track in Southern California, for the VARA race weekend. Head of the BMW Design Group, SVP Adrian van Hooydonk participates in the 40th year anniversary of BMW Motorsports and explains what the M stands for.

For 2015, Porsche has created a super fast customer race car, the 911 GT3 R based on the 911 GT3 RS production car. Over 500 hp, lightweight design, advanced aerodynamic efficiency and lower fuel consumption. This year, one of the oldest rallies in Europe, the Mille MIglia, starts with 438 stunning rare cars. On Day 1, this 2015 Mille Miglia starts in Brescia and makes its way to Rome. A stunning 1965 Alfa Romeo GT reengineered for vintage racing, as seen at the Buttonwillow race track.

RACE SCENES. 2015 TROFEO ABARTH SELENIA EUROPE. Finnish racer Pajuranta comes in first overall at the SPA FRANCORCHAMPS CIRCUIT during the 2015 Trofeo Abarth Selenia Europe. RACE SCENES. PORSCHE 919 HYBRID AND 911 RSR AT NURBURGRING. 2015 WEC. The Porsche 919 Hybrid and the 911 RSR teams finish with 1-2 victories at the Round 4 of the 2015 Sports Car World Endurance Championship at the Nurburgring.

The BMW Z4 GT3 leads the way for the 2015 24HR Nurburgring with a massive team of drivers and car models from BMW that take up the challenge to make it through 24hrs on one of the toughest circuits in the world.  AFRICAN RACER. EPISODE 2. PORSCHE MOTOR NEEDS REBUILDING JUST PRIOR TO RACE. Gavin Rooke takes the Porsche Racer for trial runs. The engine does not make it through the trail runs. Just as the Knysna Hill Race gets closer, the Porsche needs a motor rebuild. MALIBU CARS AND COFFEE. AN AMAZING COLLECTION OF CAR PORN ALONG THE PCH.

Renowned product designer, Millie Miglia Racer and Classic Car Collector Carl Gustav Magnusson shows us his vintage watch collection and points out the stunning vintage rally stopwatch from Heuer, the HEUER CRONOGRAFO CRONOMETRO GAME MASTER STOPWATCH. First time Audi LMP factory racer Rene Rast talks about his first race experience with the Audi E-tron Quattro LMP at the Spa Circuit. The stunning Bentley Continental GT3 road car reimagined as a racing machine, as first seen running during the 2013 Goodwood Festival of Speed in Sussex, England.

The Bentley team takes the monstrously fast endurance racing machine, the BENTLEY Continental GT3 to the tracks for a test run and fine tuning. AFRICAN RACER. PART 3. GAVIN ROOKE FINISHES THE 2015 KNYSNA HILL RACE. Gavin Rooke fixes his motor and tests the car just a day before the race. He then makes his way to the Knysna Hill Climb and manages to finish this majestic African race. RACE CAR. 2013 LAUNCH OF THE BMW Z4 GTE. A look at the fantastic BMW Z4 GTE racing machine as it was revealed just before it’s inaugural race at Sebring.

In the hills outside the city of Salinas, California, sits a race course nestled in a piece of ground surrounded by a Nature Preserve. During the last week of September 2015, Porsche threw it’s gargantuan fifth get together here. About 1400 Porsche cars of all shapes and sizes gathered in one spot. This short cinematic piece is a visual observation of the people, machines and sounds captured on a Saturday morning, as tens of thousands of Porsche fans gathered to attend this massive Porsche reunion.

The Porsche factory teams with the super fast 911 RSR GT Class car and the 919 Hybrid LMP 1 class car start off the 2015 season with some runs at the Silverstone Circuit.