Most people familiar with the sport of drifting are probably familiar with its origins: Japanese hoons congregating on mountain roads late at night, intentionally going through the corners sideways, competition to see who could take...
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If there was an official car of the yuppie movement of the 1980s (“yuppie” being a portmanteau of “young, “urban” – or “upwardly-mobile” – and “professional”), the second-generation BMW 3 Series (chassis code E30) would...
Jay Leno’s vast car collection has dozens of rides we lust after. But one member of his fleet that’s a cut above the rest (in our opinion, anyway) is his thoroughly-customized 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado. For...
For many members of our generation (a.k.a. Gen Y/Millenials/whatever hokey-ass term demographers and/or the mainstream media comes up with next) who call the United States home, some of their earliest encounters with a computer came...
These days, if you (provided you’re a car manufacturer) introduce a new high performance car to the world without having put it through the bucolic bitumen bootcamp that is the Nürburgring Nordschleife, most gearheads will...
The concept of racing cars based on run-of-the-mill everyday cars (or at least purpose-built racecars that look like them) is one that seems to have global appeal. The British Touring Car Championship has a substantial...
Question time: Has Honda ever made a crappy sports car? The S500, S600 and S800 of the 1960s were, by most accounts, little gems. Ditto their 1990s heir apparent, the Beat, a sharply-styled mid-engine kei...
It seems hard to believe now, but there used to be a time when American commercials and promotional films didn’t have legalese printed all over the bottom of the picture in zero-point-nothing-size typeface. You know...
For most of the last 40 years or so, the top of the exotic car food chain has been dominated by the same troika of household names that are widely known even in non-gearhead households:...
When watching a Formula 1 car blast around a track at breakneck speeds, it’s easy to forget that there are living, breathing human beings strapped inside and guiding it. And like most human beings, Formula...