When Tesla introduced the world to the Model S, lots of people were quick to sweep the company’s first effort – the Lotus-derived Roadster – aside like a kid sweeps away the previous school year’s...
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We will have to wait another year to see the Porsche 918 Spyder grace the floors of a car show. Hopefully we’ll get a chance to inspect it at the 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show. We...
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For the last decade or so, the auto industry seems to have developed a collective knack for making enthusiasts hurry up and wait. Alfa Romeo has been threatening to return to the U.S. (We’re not...
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It wasn’t that long ago that luxury used to be all about conspicuous consumption, particularly in the automotive realm. It was a never-ending race of who could construct the biggest body, the brawniest engine, and...
Up until very recently, electric cars had a reputation of being slow, unexciting transportation appliances (This despite the fact the fastest car in the world from 1898 to 1904 was a French electric car, the...
With all the talk of tighter Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) requirements lately (35.5 miles-per-gallon in 2016, and some legislators calling for 60 mpg nine years after that), a lot of us gearheads are understandably...
On monday we brought you some details about the upcoming, beautiful, techno-bombshell known as the Mercedes SLS E-Cell. Dressed in highlighter green it’s hard not to stare, although I think the words “electric-powered SLS” would...
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With all the strict new emissions and fuel economy regulations pending worldwide, it’s easy to believe that the era of fast, fun cars is about to end – this time for good. But while big,...
If there are two things most 21st century Americans living in major metropolitan areas can’t seem to live without, they are the automobile and the mobile phone. And as the mobile phone has evolved into...
When the hybrid revolution loomed its slow and ugly head I was accepting, but wary. How would this affect the great cars of our world? I’m fine commuting to work or schlepping kids in a...