Leave it to Gordon Murray, the man behind cars such as the McLaren F1, the Light Car Company Rocket and world stomping Brabham F1 cars to design an electric car that finally gets it right. Yes, yes, I know, the Tesla Roadster. Let me just start off by saying that I think Tesla’s Roadster is [...]
You might as well file this under “This is why we cannot have nice things.” Seriously. Who on Earth would buy something like this? The short answer to that is a guy by the name of Gordon Heidacker who runs this outfit in Madison Heights, Michigan called Heide Performance Products, or HPP. Before Heidacker decided [...]
Now this is what I’m talking about. This is what needs to be done to make electric vehicles not only better, but much more fun to drive: Race them. I’ve always found the vocal and bitter response from almost all gearheads to anything and everything EV-related to be highly puzzling. Digging your trench deeper or [...]
Now that the hub-bub of Pebble Beach/Monterey Historics that blend into the Frankfurt show have calmed down, it seems that the big take-away (from Pebble/Monterey at least) was the fact that a 1957 Ferrari Testa Rossa prototype rolled off the Gooding’s Pebble Beach auction block selling for a staggering $16.39 million. Yes, that’s about what [...]
I am, clearly, a big believer that racing improves the breed. And as much as I love both Formula one and the 24 Hours of Le Mans as rolling R & D facilities, the WRC (the World Rally Championship) seems to be the best place to get real world results out of real world cars. [...]
When I was a kid, it seemed as obvious to me as not putting your hand into a band saw. To me, what someone needed to do was figure out how to get a Formula 1 car onto the road for everyday street use. Or, if not an F1 car, than an F2 or a [...]
Okay y’all, her we go again: Abarth tuner of all things small and Fiat will be rolling out three new specials for the upcoming Frankfurt show. To get the un-anointed up to speed, Abarth is to Fiat, the way John Cooper is to Mini, AMG is to Mercedes or Sox & Martin were to Mopar. [...]
I know, how many of you out there have had to use a pick up truck as a tool? How many gearheads also do construction? I know just what you’re thinking when you look at this Fiat Doblo. You’re thinking, “There’s no way in God’s green Earth that thing can function in a construction setting.” [...]
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