Driving a 2010 Chevy Camaro 2SS last week, I was reminded that it’s light years more advanced than the muscle cars of my youth. Back then, an 8-track tape player, a set of Craig PowerPlay speakers on the rear deck and an EQ booster hanging from the dash was the ultimate in car audio. Yes, [...]
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The Ford Motor Company has been nudged awake by the arrival of the Chevrolet Camaro (and to a lesser degree the Dodge Challenger). A year after the reincarnation of its old rival and but a year after the redesign of its own pony car, Ford is getting aggressive about its corner of the pony car [...]
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There are plenty of greats and a few you could call special, but only a handful of cars can truly be described as legendary. The 1986 AMG Hammer falls into the latter category. It’s become a kind of cultural myth, a great car by which other great cars are measured. This is more than just [...]
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What follows is a to-do list for General Motors for 2010. It’s technically not a list of New Year’s resolutions, because that is such a trite and tired format…and, what’s more, New Year’s resolutions are rarely, if ever, kept. These are things that GM can, must and shall do this year. So, without further ado…. [...]
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The devil, they say, is in the details. And in the details of American Muscle cars, there is an astounding amount of devil. Forget about loud paint and louder pipes. It’s the scoops and badges, hood pins and racing stripes, big wheels and cue-ball shifters that hold our attention and make muscle cars so special. [...]
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What is special about the 2009 Bugatti Veyron 16.4 and 1997 McLaren F1 is that they combine warp-speed capability with usability, practicality and reliability. They have been designed to be usable every day, and, given that fact, I feel that my primary aim here should be to try to describe what it would be like [...]
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It’s mid-January and Britain is going through one of those winter thaws where the whole island seems covered in grime. The 2011 Lexus LFA has just emerged from the workshop where technicians have spent the past hour pretending to do things to its giblets and crazy multiform surfaces. And now, whiter than the Stig’s iPod, [...]
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You don’t really understand the cold until you’ve been to the Arctic. In the winter months here in northern Sweden, the sun barely raises its head and the temperature struggles to better zero degrees Fahrenheit. It’s a brutal environment and an incongruous place to meet the 2011 Mercedes SLS AMG. It’s incongruous but not unusual, [...]
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