From the August 2016 issue Despite our best efforts, the clutch, that fantastic frictional fuse between engine and transmission that has served us so long, has a dim future. With the manual gearbox critically endangered and an industry-wide focus on…
Overview: The Dodge Challenger is Fiat Chrysler’s horse in the pony-car derby, a venerated nameplate among the Mopar faithful resurrected in 2007 after spending more than three decades in mothballs. (Let’s all agree never to speak of the late-1970s Mitsubishi-based…
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Porsche wasn’t the first to apply turbocharging to production gasoline engines. GM had done it a decade before with both the Chevy Corvair and the Oldsmobile Jetfire. Which, in fact, means the 930 was actually the second production turbocharged flat-six.…
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Go ahead, write off the new 2017 Fiat 124 Spider two-seat roadster as a Mazda Miata wearing Italian rally drag. After all, this revivified 124 Spider is made in Japan, by Mazda, alongside the MX-5 Miata, and it shares with…
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We don’t want to repeat “Look at how far Kia has come!” because we’ve all witnessed the company’s impressive transformation. Although, technically, we just said it again. This time the impetus is the newest Forte sedan and Forte5 hatchback, because…
June 30, 2016 at 6:02 pm by Pete Bigelow | Photography by Michael Simari Federal safety regulators opened a preliminary investigation Thursday into the performance of the Tesla Motors Model S after one of the vehicles was involved in a…
Interested in buying a legend? The original Shelby Cobra, the very first car that Carroll Shelby hand-built, the one that kicked off the Shelby legacy that still carries on today, is going up for sale at RM Sotheby’s Monterey Auction…