Want to run in the Indianapolis 500? Assuming one has a suitable Dallara DW12 chassis, appropriate aero kit, driver, crew and specialized tools, there’s still the issue of engine rental from Chevrolet or Honda. In 2013, USA Today reported that a single-engine deal for the month of May was priced at roughly $125,000, excluding fuel […]
Like the original, the second-generation MR2’s forte was handling over straight-line speed, though the mid-mounted 2.2 liter inline four, rated at 130 horsepower, was still capable of getting the car from 0 to 60 MPH in under nine seconds. Because the car is a favorite of the tuner crowd, finding clean and unmodified examples can […]
It’s our Walter Mitty hero fantasy, in which we stick it like Formula 1 champs — Schumacher, Hamilton, Senna and Prost, among many others — who have masterfully threaded the insane challenge over the years. Doing it in Nissan’s newly revitalized 2017 GT-R on a dark and stormy evening makes it all the more intense. […]
Based on the Rolls-Royce Vision Next 100 concept, recently unveiled in England, there’s promise of even more ridiculous luxury in the pipeline. Rolls-Royce has never been a company to shy way from insane levels of opulence, no matter how absurd it may seem to the rest of the world. > The Vision Next 100 concept […]
It’s hard to argue the monumental effect the Ford Motor Company had on the world by refining the assembly line to be able to produce a car in only 93 minutes — back in 1914. The second paradigm shift came in 1966, when Ford’s GT40 won the the 24 Hours of Le Mans outright with […]
Indeed, a look at historical census records shows that the farming town reached its peak population right around 1960, and a look at the photo (taken at the intersection of Washington and Tenth streets) shows plenty of new or newish cars lining the streets. So tell us what the fine folk of Montpelier were driving […]
We spotted Miss Fire here as she wheeled into the impromptu Friday night car show in Wildwood, New Jersey that precedes The Race of Gentlemen each year. Owner/builder Matt Kutz, owner of Sam and Jerry’s Garage in Carlisle, Pennsylvania was at the wheel. Matt Kutz’s Kammback phaeton speedster cuts a dashing figure in spectator parking […]
The sliding door that covers our 2016 Tesla Model X‘s main center console bin is broken. You can slide it forward all you want but it just slides closed again as it was when I took the above photo. Want to use the clever cupholders below? Too bad. The aft bin, which does stay open, […]
Full-size pickups are some of the best-selling vehicles in the U.S. year after year. Their fiercely loyal customers eagerly anticipate and endlessly discuss the release of any new model. But the 2014 Ram 1500 was not all-new. Its last full redesign came in 2009, and we bought one to try out its revolutionary coil-spring rear […]
Out of curiosity, I also looked up our lifetime fuel economy for the long-departed 2011 Honda Odyssey and 2011 Toyota Sienna minivans we had in the test fleet. Both were more efficient than our Sedona. We drove about 1,500 miles last month in our 2015 Kia Sedona. As the month had a balanced mix of […]
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