The Hyundai Genesis Coupe is a very cool car. Mainly for a younger crowd, the Coupe gives us the quintessential sports-car layout: front-engine, rear-wheel-drive (FR,) on a lightweight, fun-to-drive platform for a measly $23,000 (starting price.) And what do nearly all import tuners do with an FR layout sports car? Well, they drop in a [...]
What’s next for McLaren? The MP4-12C went into production early last year and it has been doing very well, despite some early quality in niggles. Back in 2010, McLaren promised to launch 5 new models or model variants over the next five years. MP4-12C was 2011′s launch – how about 2012? That is likely to [...]
Audi’s first true high-performance supercar, the R8 birth for the 2008 model year became the German luxury car brand’s staple for quattro drive adrenaline. Generating 420 horsepower from a 4.2 liter V-8 engine, Audi added the 5.2 FSI V-10 in 2010 sending the R8 supercar’s performance to an even more depth-defying 525 horsepower. The [...]
In larger cities across the world, compact vehicles have become a necessity as populations continue to get larger. While many Asian and European markets have had plenty of exposure to super compact cars, the idea of driving a small vehicle is a relatively new idea for most people in the States. But as gas prices [...]
Before the emergence of the Tesla Roadster, electric cars were in danger of becoming a victim of an undeserved stigma. As most electric vehicle is built to feature a minimized carbon footprint, the common belief was to think of battery-powered cars as lacklustre performers. In truth, the characteristics of electric powertrains lends surprisingly well [...]
Back in the 1980s, when the Hyundai Pony and Stellar gave North American audiences a negative sense of vehicle engineering, few would have expected the South Korean company would be a participant at a trendy automotive aftermarket accessories show. Evolving drastically into a producer of desirable automobiles, Hyundai’s 2011 presence at the 2011 SEMA Show [...]
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 [...]
The McLaren MP4-12C went into production this year, after a long development program that set some of the world’s top exotics in its sights. If there was one criticism we’ve heard lobbed at the car, it has been that its styling is perhaps too sedate for its price tag. We like the MP4-12C’s smooth lines, [...]