There was a time that Toyota’s involvement in the World Rally Championship was a given. Every year, some of the sport’s best drivers – world champions Carlos Sainz, Didier Auriol and Juha Kankkunen among them...
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A little over 100 years ago (December 1, 1914, to be exact), five brothers from Bologna, Italy – Alfieri, Bindo, Carlo, Ettore and Ernesto Maserati – established a workshop to build automobiles and components. In...
The famous song lyric may be “I love Paris in the springtime,” but many car fans prefer the City of Light in the fall, or at least the fall of an even-numbered year. It is...
“It’s what’s inside that counts.” Although most people tend to shove that expression out of their minds when on the hunt for a mate, it seems like very few folks ignore it when it comes...
Having won the World Rally Championship for drivers in each of the last nine years, France’s Sebastien Loeb has retired from full-time WRC competition (to the unending relief of his competitors). But instead of spending...
A traditional post-Thanksgiving rite here in Southern California (along with shopping on Black Friday, all the while hoping you aren’t trampled, stabbed, shot etc.) is the Los Angeles Auto Show. Granted, it’s not a very...
Ah, the minivan. It is an exceptionally user-friendly, eminently practical car-based carrier of people and stuff. It is also a seven-seater (give or take) beacon to the rest of the world, signaling that you’ve abandoned...
Less than a month ago, there were loads of people who were stoked about the RallyCross event at the X Games here in Los Angeles. The entry list was a who’s who of high-precision, highly...
I had the pleasure of driving down to Irvine for the Cars and Coffee meet on a warm, sunny Saturday morning 2 weeks ago. If you didn't already know, Cars and Coffee is an informal...
Theoretically, every racecar has the potential to be a championship contender when the team manager and drivers pull off the sheet and smile for the cameras. It isn’t until preseason testing is completed and the...