Developing a new car is a very, very involved process that takes years. That’s a lot of time in which some rather crazy stuff can happen: The company undertaking the task of birthing the new...
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The car biz, in case you haven’t figured it out by now, is both incredibly fickle and hellaciously expensive. Nowadays it’s not uncommon to hear about a manufacturer spending 10 figures to bring a new...
Over the years we’ve featured untold hundreds of supercars and exotics on this site, while there are countless others that have yet to make an appearance. Each such automobile was or currently is its maker’s...
Every new car launch is fraught with anticipation inside the walls of its maker. Odds are it will find a modicum of success, but there’s always the looming specter of it failing to rub the...
Back in the early 1990s, Honda produced two lustworthy mid-engined sports cars: The Ferrari-baiting NSX (which was sold here as an Acura), and the pipsqueak kei class Japan-only Beat roadster. Jump ahead to the present...
If it’s March, it’s Geneva Motor Show time. And the 2015 edition has been one of the most performance-oriented we can remember, with a bumper crop of high-horsepower (and high-style) rides practically bursting through the...
By all outward appearances, it’s good to be Tanner Foust. The Colorado native has lucrative gigs in racing, stunt driving for TV and film, and hosting TV shows. But how did he get interested in...
The Ferrari 458 Italia (and its professional kickboxer sister, the 458 Speciale) is, by far, the best mid-engined “cheap” Ferrari in history. However, as stupendousas its naturally-aspirated 4.5L V8 is, the winds of change are...
It’s hardly unusual for automakers to bring out the big guns for their home auto show; the Germans do it in Frankfurt, likewise the French for Paris, and historically the Detroit Three have done it...
Kooky though it may be, the BMW X6 has sold well enough for BMW to give it not only a second generation, but also a smaller sibling, the X4. Arch foe Mercedes-Benz is, not surprisingly,...