It's Ashley Freiberg's first season driving race cars with fenders, having recently switched to GT from the “Mazda Road to Indy” ladder. Ride along with Ashley as she shows us the Laguna Seca GT line.
It's Ashley Freiberg's first season driving race cars with fenders, having recently switched to GT from the “Mazda Road to Indy” ladder. Ride along with Ashley as she shows us the Laguna Seca GT line.
We've all got favorite cars. One of those cars exists in our minds as a hypothetical über-favorite car, one built from all the best traits of every year our favorite car was made. For most of us, this remains a drool-producing daydream, but not for the people at Singer. They're actually building these…
Porsche has now made the 911 for 50 years. Think about that. The 911 has seen 10 US presidents, the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, and the fall of Must See TV. It's been around the block. And somehow it just keeps getting better.
Jalopnik reader Kurt emailed us yesterday, as people often do, seeking some car buying advice. Luckily for us, Kurt isn't struggling over whether to buy a Camry or an Accord; he's considering three very badass and very different German performance cars.
And now let's look at a car that hails from a time when men had mustaches unironically, transmissions had clutches, and Porsche engines were cooled by the air.
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This is professional D1 drifter Tetsuya Hibino at the wheel of an air-cooled 993 Porsche 911. It's raining, the engine is far behind him, and getting the car in controlled skids does not look easy.
Eddie Bello's 1994 Porsche 911 C2 has modern headlamps and a twin-turbocharged 3.6-liter flat-six producing 1300 horsepower on race fuel. When pitted against Underground Racing's TT Gallardos (putting down more than 1500 hp) or a slightly less powerful Viper at the Texas Invitational 6-Speed Challenge, this 19-years…