A couple years after the turn of the current century, MG Rover Group – the last British-owned mass-market car company – was barely clinging to life. It had been kicked to the curb by BMW...
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When Toyota birthed the Lexus brand in 1989, its aim was to knock the established European and American luxury brands off their perches with a quintessentially Japanese combination of refinement, reliability, and value. Notice how...
When compiling a list of the most prolific performance cars of the 1980s, you pretty much have to include the Renault 5 Turbo. This flared French hot hatch with a trunk full of engine was...
For more than a decade, import enthusiasts have been mourning the loss of the Supra, and rumors make it obvious that they’re not willing to give up hope of a comeback. Fueling these rumors is...
When you think of high-performance tuning, Cadillac isn’t the first car company that typically comes to mind. Once the ‘go to’ ride primarily reserved for well-to-do men and women of a certain age who valued...
When Nissan reintroduced the Skyline GT-R in 1989 as a high-tech, high-powered all-wheel-drive twin-turbo brute of a coupe, it created a legend that lives on to the present day. The R32-based GT-R annihilated all challengers...
Scion doesn’t have a long, rich or storied history (having been launched just over 10 years ago). Nor does it have multi-generational consumers, strong name recognition (some people still call it ‘Sky-on’) or a product...
While it’s painfully easy to pile onto the Indianapolis 500 in its current form thanks to things like shrinking entry lists, spec tires, a spec chassis, two engine suppliers and increasing apathy from the public...
When locked in a life-and-death struggle, you don’t act like it’s business as usual, do you? Or “phone-it-in” when wrestling the force or entity trying to kill you? Of course not. The same has often...
Car wheels have, like all wheels, always been round, but they haven’t always been made of the same material. The early ones were wooden, not unlike the ones found on the horsedrawn vehicles from which...