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,...
The Picassos of polymer at Prior Design have lent their touch to numerous German and Italian exotics (as well as the occasional American) over the years. However, for whatever reason, they’ve largely ignored Japanese machinery....
Every new car launch is fraught with anticipation inside the walls of its maker. Odds are it will find a modicum of success, but there’s always the looming specter of it failing to rub the...
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The Nissan GT-R has proven to be quite popular with tuners around the world, but you’ll find enthusiasm for giving Nissan’s supercar more muscle is higher in Japan than it is most other places. That...
Almost exactly one year ago, we brought you 10 of the most tasty-as-Timbits Canadian car market curiosities ever to cruise under the maple leaf flag. Today, in honor of Cinco de Mayo (which is not,...
Drifting looks like loads of fun (and by most accounts it is), but there’s at least one expensive elephant in the room (provided you aren’t a pro with a tire company sponsorship that hooks you...
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=zty8zBC5KxM[/youtube] One of the most talked about commercials – cars or otherwise – of this year’s Super Bowl came from Nissan. Aside from really tugging at the heartstrings, the advert also marked the public debut...
In 1971, America’s first muscle car era was winding down, but across the Pacific, Japan’s high performance heyday was just beginning to hit its stride, because that was the year Nissan introduced the 2-door Skyline...