You know, there’s just something fundamentally right about hopped up versions of cars that were best known for working for a living. Sure, the 1994-’96 Chevrolet Impala SS and 2003-’04 Mercury Marauder were mean, muscular...
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By the time the 1990s were well and truly underway, true independence and vertical integration within the automotive realm were things reserved for firmly established, decades-old (if not centuries-old) nameplates. Small, boutique nameplates were expected...
Although Fiat has a pretty long history of building sporty and stylish coupes, it went for quite a long period – specifically, the latter-half of the 1970s and all of the 1980s – without a...
Throughout the first half of the 1980s, Volvo was basically the Sunday school teacher of the automotive world. Its 240 and 740/760 series of sedans and station wagons were boxy, rear-drive safety cages that, aside...
As the last decade of the 20th century dawned, Honda gave sports car fans a lot to smile about. It was at that time that the company introduced a nimble, mid-engine, two-seat turn-conqueror powered by...
Few production automobiles made in the last quarter-century seem to inspire greater difference of opinion that the Volkswagen New Beetle. It is beloved by aged hippies and connoisseurs of all things cute while, concurrently, reviled...
A couple years after the turn of the current century, MG Rover Group – the last British-owned mass-market car company – was barely clinging to life. It had been kicked to the curb by BMW...
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...
When Nissan reintroduced the Skyline GT-R in 1989 as a high-tech, high-powered all-wheel-drive twin-turbo brute of a coupe, it created a legend that lives on to the present day. The R32-based GT-R annihilated all challengers...
For most of its existence, the diesel engine has been the polar opposite of a high performance powertrain technology. Sure, Uncle Rudolf’s Sparkless Wonders have qualified on pole for the Indianapolis 500 (60 years ago...