Image: Porsche It took Porsche a year and five months to come up with a fix to the recall and stop-drive order it issued for every single Carrera GT built. The suspension failure–related recall addressed a particular propensity for control arms to corrode and fail, which could lead to a crash. If you are one … Read more
Remember when you were a kid, and remote-control cars were cheap plastic toys that were great fun until they quickly and inevitably fell apart into unfixable shards? Well, those days are over. Now, RC cars are high-dollar enthusiast machines, built to look incredible and tuned for ultimate performance. Case in point: This Kyosho EP Fazer … Read more
The seller of today’s Nice Price or No Dice Montero calls it a “true classic.” They also claim it to be in amazing condition and to come with a refreshed engine. Let’s decide if it’s priced to live up to that classic status. Brooklyn Coachworks Builds The World’s Coolest Defenders Finding the small block Chevy … Read more
Porsche has been practically synonymous with turbochargers since the early 1970s. The 911 Turbo has been an icon of speed and performance for fifty years. Porsche is honoring that history with a new special edition 911 Turbo 50 Years. This is more or less an appearance package for the existing 992-generation 911 Turbo S, which … Read more
How good are you at reverse parking? How reliant are you on that backup camera to stop you from stopping too far from or too close to that car behind? How do you think you’d fare in a reverse parking challenge against Max Orido, who can throw an MR-2 back to within an inch of … Read more
Gif: Goodwood Road and Racing / YouTube Travis Pastrana put on a show with the Hoonigan Huckster on the storied hillclimb at last weekend’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, but his run ended with the extensively modified 1983 Subaru GL Wagon in a haybale. The event’s traditional climax is the timed shootout. While victory carries some … Read more
Image: Bring A Trailer Sometimes it seems as if Bring A Trailer is slowly turning into a crooked used car lot where low-mileage, basic cars go for big prices. It keeps happening and it’s happening yet again, this time with a Ford Escort from 1991 with just 358 miles on the clock. Cedric The Entertainer … Read more
When I showed up to review the Hyundai Ioniq 5 N, I knew it would be quick. Having more than 600 horsepower on tap tends to do that. I’d also seen promises that it would be much more track-capable than the Kia EV6 GT, so I went in expecting it to be pretty good. Once … Read more
Blame the pandemic. Phil Wagenheim, the highly energized New York investment bro who is CEO and one of two partners at Connecticut’s Sacrilege Motors, does. You see Wagenheim, who made bank during the early days of SPACs (Special-Purpose Acquisition Companies), had been hanging out with his kids at home a lot during the Covid lockdown. … Read more
Screenshot: AMMO on YouTube I don’t really find joy in cleaning my own cars. It’s an annoying mess that always takes way longer than I think it is going to, and the results are never as good as I hope. While I’m perfectly fine taking my cars through a drive-through car wash, I do find … Read more
