The original Porsche 911 Targa, introduced in 1967, wasn’t the car Porsche necessarily wanted to build, but the one it thought it would have to build. You see, around that time the U.S. government was...
Tag Archives: Cosworth
As large and as lucrative as the U.S. new car market has been for virtually its entire existence, pretty much every major automaker has nevertheless kept the good stuff out of our hands on at...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MsAN0ETLss&index=12&list=LLCpNw5Fe-9YYS4duyxmzh0A[/youtube] Impossible though it may seem, it’s already Thanksgiving Day again here in the U.S. And in between munching on appetizers before the big turkey dinner and fielding questions from elderly relatives concerning such lightweight...
As entertaining as the small rear-drive coupes jointly developed by Subaru and Toyota/Scion are, they aren’t particularly speedy in a straight line. Granted, you don’t buy a Scion FR-S or Subaru BRZ to do battle...
Ah, January in Las Vegas. The gambling addicts with failed resolutions have fallen off the wagon and into the casinos, the strippers have put away their Santa hats, and the world’s biggest electronic goods manufacturers...
There are many fascinating forms of motorsports that few people have heard about, but time attack has to be one of our favorites. Rather than racing other cars and drivers directly, participants race the clock,...
Purpose-built racing cars – be they single seat open wheelers, sports prototypes, dragsters or any other automobile whose sole reason for being is to compete – have always inspired awe and been capable of extraordinary...
When the Jaguar E-Type (a.k.a. XK-E) debuted at the 1961 Geneva Motor Show, it made the motoring world wet the metaphorical bed. It made the Chevrolet Corvette seem positively ancient (which it most certainly was;...