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Seems there's another new car in Jay Leno's garage this week: a Dodge Challenger SRT8 in gleaming black paint has been spotted in Jay's parking spot at NBC.

An eagle-eyed car-spotter saw the new ride - surrounded by barricades - parked out back of The Tonight Show studio. According to sources at Chrysler, Jay picked the car up at Valley Dodge in Van Nuys only yesterday but we've no doubt he's already put the 425hp, 420 lb-ft RWD monster to good use.

Of course, the real owner is actually someone totally different. We think it actually belongs to Nancy O'Dell, who parks right next to Jay, and they thought they'd play a trick on us... AutoBlog

Not only does Mr. Leno have a warehouse full of every sort of car or bike you'd ever like to get your hands on - and likely some you've never heard of - he also gets offered a ton of cool stuff to drive or ride, too. "Hey, Jay, fancy a spin in the Veyron for a week?", is not a strange thing for the talk show host to hear.

Hence his time spent with an $80,000 Ducati Desmosedici RR. (Er, so what else comes with that exactly? Nothing? Just the bike? Got it...)

The bike weights just 377lbs, will rev to 14,000 rpm and has 197hp; as Leno says, it's the bike equivalent of a McLaren F1. Apart from all the road-going stuff that it has to sport - turn signals, mirrors etc - this is basically the race-spec bike.

Which begs the question - where, and how (given mortal riding limitations) are you ever going to use all of that performance? London Times

Mr Jay "I've got a garage with more cars than the Petersen Museum" Leno has lately been tooling around town in a Mazda Kabura concept. Given it's still not even at pre-production stage, it'll only do 50mph, but its futuristic styling has the late night talk show host excited for the future of the company.

Given he already has 3 Mazdas in his collection, they certainly gave the keys to a suitable test driver. Jay Leno's Review

Back in June of 2007, 2 participants in the Bullrun Rally took a slight detour from the Montreal to Key West route in an attempt to eclipse the 30-year old New York to LA record.

Texans Richard Rawlings and Dennis Collins said 'hell yeah' to a $50,000 bet from fellow Bullrunner Jay Riecke, that they could beat the time of 32 hours 7 minutes set by David Diem and Doug Turner back in 1983.

Running in a modified Ferrari 550 (but when we say modified we mean scanners, jammers, extra gas tank etc), the duo managed a ridiculously-fast time of 31 hours 59 minutes.

Unfortunately, it would soon emerge that Alex Roy had already run a faster time back in October 2006 (31 hours 4 minutes) but whereas his amazing feat was practiced and planned to the last detail, the Texans' attempt was simply a matter of "let's go".

They stopped by Jay Leno's garage after their run, but Jay only released the video early this year, possibly for fear of being associated with two outlaws...I mean, legends! Jay Leno's Garage