February 15, 2012 – Chris Harris says the 2012 Nissan GT-R is one of the most interesting cars in the world to behave badly in. Why? Because the car's amazingly byzantine all-wheel drivetrain fights against aggressively reckless inputs. More »
Top Gear USA Host Rutledge Wood Is Not A Cake-Eating Hipster
February 14, 2012 – You'd think Rutledge Wood would have a chip on his shoulder, with all the crap he and his co-hosts get about Top Gear America. He doesn't. In fact, his family sends him links to all the horrible things people say about him and his co-hosts, and he just laughs. More »
What’s With The Weird New Noses On Formula One Cars?
February 10, 2012 – If you hadn't noticed, some 2012 Formula One cars have strange, "stepped noses." It's as if some engineer accidentally put Owen Wilson into a wind tunnel, looked at the data and shouted, "Eureka!" Indeed, 2012 will be a strange-looking season for F1's return to the US. Why so nose-weird? More »
Will a Toyota GT 86 Drift?
February 8, 2012 – It's the second most pressing question posed to any new, two-wheel-drive model in the car-o-sphere, after, "Does it suck" and "Will it hit a deer?": Will it drift? More »
Which Group B Car Is More Legendary: Ford RS200 or Audi Sport Quattro?
February 2, 2012 – The nearly three-decades-old Ford RS200's byzantine all-wheel-drive system is like the modern Nissan GT-R's, only in reverse. The Audi Sport Quattro had ABS and self-locking diffs when those things were still wizardry. More »
Aston Martin V12 Zagato: Is This It?
February 2, 2012 – Last year, Aston Martin's V12 Zagato concept debuted to a flush, veal-complected crowd at Italy's Villa D'Este. This year, the Zagato-massaged Vantage collabo's going into production, and according to GTspirit.com, this is it. You remember the V12 Zagato's back story. More »
Is Detroit America’s Berlin?
February 1, 2012 – On its face, the city of Detroit looks like it's on its ass: Crime, a municipal crisis and urban architectural marvels gone fallow. And yet, beneath it all, the city's harboring a creative energy that — More »
Will Grand Am Racing Ever Get International Respect?
January 30, 2012 – Sir Jackie Stewart says making Grand-Am an internationally recognized series means bringing in an even wider selection of cars — if the cars come, the big drivers will too. More »
Pay Your Respects at Japan’s Random Muscle-Car Graveyard
January 28, 2012 – Daniel O'Grady, an Australian into exploring old Japanese castles, happened upon this random sadness pile in Kurume City on Kyushu island. It's definitely a five-hanky lot of cars gone to seed, though rife with rusty-muscle-car porn. Not counting the Suzuki van amid the period iron, the pile... More »
BMW M Cars Will Shred Tires With Three-Turbo Diesel Power
January 26, 2012 – BMW is launching a new high-performance, 3.0-liter inline six for its M cars. No surprise yet. It also has three turbochargers, produces 381 hp and 546 lb-ft of torque, and only revs to 5,400 rpm. More »
Watch Chris Harris Hoon His Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0
January 25, 2012 – It's with both envy and pride that I inform you our bloke Chris Harris owns a Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0. Having broken two Cardinal sins already, I present Chris's last drive of the season, in which he — More »
Nissan Juke R: First Drive
January 24, 2012 – We exclusively broke the news of Nissan Europe's Juke R project back in September. All we knew then was some strange "super Juke" crossover had been endowed with a GT-R's engine. More »
The L.L. Bean Bootmobile: First Drive
January 19, 2012 – During a recent stop in Times Square, L.L. Bean let us drive its new promotional vehicle — the Ford truck-powered Bootmobile. What better to strap into on a windy, January afternoon in midtown Manhattan than footwear the size of a UPS truck, right? In 1912, Leon Leonwood Bean brainstormed a... More »
You Can Drive This Hand-Crafted Land Yacht From The Roof
January 18, 2012 – You know the Blastolene collective of Grants Pass, Oregon by its outsized custom-car sculptures, like the Blastolene Special (aka "Jay Leno's Tank Car") the Rocket II and the epic B-702. More »
Facebook Answers Audi Engineer’s Cry For Help During Dubai 24 Hours Race
January 14, 2012 – Eight-and-a-half hours into the Dubai 24 Hours endurance race, United Autosports mechanics had a question about their Audi R8 GT3 LMS racecar. Lucky for them, a very well-connected Audi engineer was reading. "Does anyone know where the location is for the starter relay and main relay on a R8? More »
The True Story Of How A Ferrari Ended Up Buried In Someone’s Yard
(Jalopnik.com ) January 13, 2012 – These photos, taken in February, 1978, show a Dino 246 GT being unearthed from the front yard of a home in Los Angeles. The photos have been making the rounds online for years. [Deadspin]
The True Story Of How A Ferrari Ended Up Buried In Someone’s Yard
January 13, 2012 – These photos, taken in February, 1978, show a Dino 246 GT being unearthed from the front yard of a home in Los Angeles. The photos have been making the rounds online for years. More »
The True Story of How a Ferrari Ended Up Buried In Someone’s Yard
(Jalopnik.com ) January 13, 2012 – These photos, taken in February, 1978, show a Dino 246 GT being unearthed from the front yard of a home in Los Angeles. The photos have been making the rounds online for years. [Gawker]
