Automakers are restrained from creating enormously aerodynamic vehicles with sport-tuned suspensions and powerhouse motors because they must cater to the average consumer. As a result, the tuning industry has grown up, providing consumers (tuners) with products that enhance their vehicles appearance and performance. Body kits are one of the most popular ways to enhance both [...]
While poking around, looking for Phil related stuff, I came across this way cool in car camera footage of a lap of the Nurburgring, 1967 style. (They say it’s F1, but looks like F2/FV t’me).
Enhancing the power of your vehicle is a subject that preoccupies most tuners. You can do this in numerous ways. However, one of the simplest and most affordable ways is also one of the best. Adding a cold air intake can give you dramatic improvement in performance. While an intake won’t add hundreds of horsepower [...]
For those of you out there that have not seen any coverage of the Paris to Dakar race, you really should check it, it’s flat out amazing It’s like a round from the World Rally Championship, only more insane, and somehow deadlier. This years running was canceled because of “terrorist fears”. Most of the time, [...]
Aston Martin, in conjuction with famed watchmaker Jaeger LeCoultre, has developed the AMVOX2 DBS Transponder, a very fancy, very sophisticated, and likely to be very expensive watch. Sure, it is basically a brand-whore item, but it’s a really cool brand-whore item. It will be showcased on the eve of the Paris Motor Show where it [...]
More sad news, Phil, America’s first world driving champion, died shortly after 10 a.m. PST in a Monterey County, Calif., hospital as a result of respiratory problems complicated by Parkinson’s disease. Hill was 81. I had the opportunity to see Phil Hill race when I was a kid. He was a class act all the [...]
Times change. It used to be that a car was measured in terms of torque and horsepower, then the focus became more on horsepower, and then the Veyron came out, and everything became measured in terms of top speed. Then gas hit four bucks a gallon, so now it’s all about mileage. So I’ll give [...]
(All pics shown are of the XLR-V) Cadillac’s XLR is an expensive, high-class roadster, but it has never been as popular as the BMWs and Benzes in the same price range. This is mostly due to the fact that Cadillac has the same image as Buick, that is, made for an older generation. Well, Cadillac [...]
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