Up until the mid-1980s, Alfa Romeo was routinely mentioned in the same breath as BMW as a maker of fine, fun, rear-wheel-drive European sport sedans. Unfortunately, chronic financial woes finally drove the beloved Italian brand...
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The phrase “race car for the street” has so much mileage on it that it could have gone to Uranus and back about six times. Of course, there are some instances where it’s correctly applied,...
The Alfa Romeo 4C features many of the typical modern supercar ingredients: Pants-tightening-styling, a mid-engine layout, a crazy-fast-shifting dual-clutch transmission, and a carbon fiber monocoque chassis. However, there is one noteworthy item that isn’t like...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8OdwD2ozyA Forza Horizon 2 – Turn 10 and Playground Games’ second open-world racing game – is amazeballs right out of the box, but that isn’t stopping its makers from piling on the awesome in the...
Though they aren’t as common as they used to be, “stripper” cars (i.e. completely bereft of all but the most basic equipment and wearing steel wheels and unpainted black plastic bumpers) still hold a sort...
One of the highlights of the automotive “buff book” year is Motor Trend’s Best Driver’s Car competition. The L.A.-based mag spends the better part of a week sampling some of the year’s sportiest cars on...
A few years ago, we took a look at 10 of the most prominent racing video games to wear the names of professional racecar drivers. The idea behind such games is, of course, having a...
Though winter shows few signs of abating in some parts of the world, the month of March still provides reasons for optimism. This is particularly true if you’re a car buff, for the global auto...
When compiling a list of great travel destinations for gearheads, no list should ever be considered complete unless it has Modena, Italy on it. Maserati, Ferrari and, the most recent addition, Pagani all call the...
In many countries (other than ones whose names rhyme with “Who Knighted Plates”), Formula 1 is super popular. Like, second-only-to-football/soccer popular. Perhaps nowhere is this more true than in Brazil, where seemingly every mid-size-and-bigger city...