Mazda is celebrating the 20 anniversary of its highly successful and downright fun sports car the same way the world celebrates New Year’s Eve, with each region getting its own party and count-down. Special editions...
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Today, I attended Mazda‘s media preview for their 2009 MAZDASPEED Motorsports Development season. The day kicked off with some serious chow-down via a roving In-And-Out Burger wagon tugged by a monster Mercedes-Benz rig. Several burgers...
When you think of cool cars, what comes to mind? For most people, it’s things like a Corvette, Mustang or a sleek Aston Martin with James Bond at the wheel — things that would look...
It’s pretty widely known that NSU was the first car company (and the only one other than Mazda) to produce and sell Wankel rotary engine powered cars to the public. But how many people remember...
Regardless of whether you consider the original World War II Jeep, the 1935 Chevrolet Suburban Carryall or something else to be the Adam of sport utility vehicles, the bottom line is the primordial soup of...
Over the decades, numerous Japanese automobiles originally developed primarily with the home market in mind have found second homes here on this side of the Pacific. These Americanized JDM models have existed for various and...
During automotive history’s dark ages (a.k.a. the early-1970s to the mid-1980s), fuel economy shot right to the top of many new car buyers’ priority lists, as the Malaise Era (as it has come to be...
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...
From time to time, an automobile will come along that you know straight away will be a classic. Other times, it can be difficult to predict and a car will take the entire industry by...
Though they may not be quite as popular as their exhaust-pressure-driven cousins with OEMs these days since they take some engine power to make engine power, superchargers are still might useful for giving an engine...