We’re only just starting to get used to the new look Formula 1 cars of 2017, with their wider tracks and tires and lower, wider rear wings providing quite the visual throwback (as well as...
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYifPHX0qh8[/youtube] For an entire generation of gearheads (and quite a few non-gearheads), KITT – the sentient, fully-autonomous black Pontiac Trans Am from the original Knight Rider TV series – is the ultimate car. This is...
Like modern Porsche 911s, the Nissan GT-R is a spectacular performance car not because of its design, but in spite of it. Its engine is in the front, its all-wheel-drive system adds understeer and weight...
When compiling a list of the most prolific performance cars of the 1980s, you pretty much have to include the Renault 5 Turbo. This flared French hot hatch with a trunk full of engine was...
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...
It’s hot, it’s French, and yes, it’s the 2009 Renault Megane Trophy. First shown at the 2008 Paris Auto Show, the newly revised auto features a V6 3.5-liter powerplant that has been bumped up to...
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...
Mention the phrase “Group B rally car” to typical petrolheads, and their minds’ eyes will immediately conjure images of fire-belching, forced-induction monsters from the likes of Audi, Peugeot, Lancia and Ford. Yet there were many...
The term “parts bin special” is typically used as a pejorative within gearhead circles, a descriptor of vehicles developed on the cheap by taking a bit of one model and injecting it with some DNA...