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...
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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...
In case you weren’t watching last Sunday, German prodigy Sebastian Vettel and the team for which he drives, Infiniti Red Bull Racing, clinched their fourth consecutive Formula 1 driver’s and constructor’s championships, respectively, by winning...
These days, developing and building any car is a complicated process. But this is even truer of the most sophisticated racing cars on earth: The cars that contest the Formula 1 World Championship. Each of...
Every 24 months, the automotive world descends upon the German city of Frankfurt for the Frankfurt Motor Show. And every 24 months, the Frankfurt Motor Show kicks off the global auto show season, setting the...
When Sony and Polyphony Digital unveiled Gran Turismo 6 back in May, there were two sizable surprises: One, it’s arriving on the PlayStation 3 rather than the PlayStation 4, and two, it’s coming out in...
Even though Great Britain’s national tree is the speed camera and driving and parking in Central London other major city centers is, in some cases, more expensive than buying enough bicycles, helmets and scrotum-squishing shorts...
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...
Formula 1 cars are by far the most expensive and technologically complex racecars on the planet. Each team rolls out a brand new (or at least heavily revised) one every year, and each car is...
The early 1980s was truly the World Rally Championship’s Wild West period, thanks in large part to technical formula in place at the time. The FIA’s Group B regulations required manufacturers to build at least...