It used to be that the inline-six was the internal combustion engine layout jack-of-all-trades. You’d see big, long-stroke ones powering trucks of all shapes and sizes, small and high-strung ones propelling sports cars, and medium-sized...
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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,...
Considering the F-Type’s status as the first mass-produced Jaguar sports car in more than a generation, it shouldn’t come as a huge surprise that the automotive aftermarket has really embraced it. German tuner Piecha Design...
After the wildly underwhelming S-Type, the pressure was on Jaguar designers and engineers to come up with a new mid-size sedan (or saloon, if you prefer) that would strike a chord with buyers and critics....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCb4BhTkD0E By all outward appearances, it’s good to be Tanner Foust. The Colorado native has lucrative gigs in racing, stunt driving for TV and film, and hosting TV shows. But how did he get interested...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NntUmzO961k It’s the first Tuesday of the month, and you know what that means! Er, yeah, okay, but the thing we had in mind was the release of another new six-car content pack for Forza...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQErgDQaRZM&list=UU8AMAhCRmep7VJKe1sxvHFg[/youtube] We’ve said time and time again that, as far as we’re concerned, the mid-1980s through the early-1990s was the golden age of sports car racing on planet earth. Yeah, yeah, we’re biased because we...
While cars are, overall, safer than they’ve ever been, one area in which automotive safety has actually regressed is outward visibility. Thin roof pillars and “hardtop” bodystyles – coupes, sedans and even the occasional station...
Few supercars made in the last quarter century have been as star-crossed as the Jaguar XJ220: The runaway hit of the 1988 Birmingham Motor Show, it entered (limited) production five years later, though it did...
Plenty of automotive publications hand out “best vehicle” or “vehicle of the year” awards on an annual basis, and quite a few of those awards carry a fair bit of weight. However, if you’re a...