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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Just when you think the vehicle tuning and customization industry has reached its apogee, another SEMA Show takes place in Las Vegas the following November and proves you wrong. Of course, not every ride that...
Poll most petroleads for their opinion on front-wheel-drive , and an overwhelming majority will use terms like “lame,” “dull,” “understeer,” torque steer,” “I’d rather chew steel wool,” and so on. Yet automotive history has proven...
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...
For all the time, money and energy Toyota and Subaru put into developing their twin rear-drive, flat-four-powered sport coupes (the Subaru BRZ, Toyota 86/GT86 and the lame duck Scion FR-S), the two Japanese nameplates haven’t...
A couple of weeks ago, we brought you a list of 10 performance-oriented Chevrolets that could best be described as outside the mainstream, with nary a Corvette or Camaro in sight. Well, of course we...
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...
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...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUqVTHV14Lg&list=UUsert8exifX1uUnqaoY3dqA[/youtube] We’ve previously gone on record as saying that drifting needs to be taking place in fewer parking lots and permanent racing facilities and more mountain roads and other venues where there’s genuine sense of...
If you thought the gestation of the fifth-generation Chevrolet Camaro and the Scion FR-S/Subaru BRZ twins moved along at a glacial pace, how would you describe the wait for the second-generation Acura Forever, er, Chinese...