Internal combustion engines have improved greatly since the vehicles they power surpassed the utility of electric vehicles almost one hundred and twenty years ago. ... View more

Direct injection and a CAFE automatic will not last a million miles. ... View more

I don't believe I have ever seen a Subaru BRAT being used as a work truck. The high attrition rate is down to Subarus of forty years ago being a regional phenomenon in places with lots of snow combined with the cars being bereft of rust resistance.   ... View more

Welcome to globalism, where courts are for sale to the highest bidder the whole world over. Sorry Tata. ... View more

A Cadillac station wagon was a non-starter because even putting a wreath and crest on a Suburban screamed hearse back when most people had Christian burials. ... View more

It's funny that somebody bothered to build a DB6 wagon. Car and Driver observed that a 383-powered 1966 Plymouth Fury III wagon was already faster, better handling and better riding than an Aston Martin DB6 coupe in their September 1966 issue. The Plymouth wagon also whipped the Aston Martin around Lime Rock. The attractiveness of the DB6 Coupe might justify its existence, but why sacrifice its looks to make a lesser interpretation of a vehicle type where mass production already revealed Aston Martin's weaknesses? ... View more

2,743 lbs is heavy for a 130 hp car with sporting pretension. It was then too, when cars weren't as burdened with bulk-adding regulations. The 1982 Mustang GT had between 157 and 161 horsepower, depending on the source. It also weighed about the same and was took about 20% less time to reach 60 miles per hour. The 924 Turbo weighed about the same and had 143 horsepower in the US, allowing it to also hit 60 miles per hour about 2 seconds sooner than the DeLorean.  I would be surprised if the Delorean is actually faster than the 280ZX or any RX7 with a manual transmission, but I know it was it was priced about 50% higher than the 280ZX Turbo that could do a horizon job on a DeLorean from a standing start. Same with the then-archaic Corvette C3.   I'm not anti-DeLorean, but the fact is that the ones they sold had gull-wing doors and stainless steel bodies. They returned better fuel economy than other sports cars that cost more than seventeen grand(well more in the case of the DeLorean), and they did it by having pedestrian performance.  Sending them to Legend Industries for twin-turbo conversions would have added several thousand dollars to the price, putting them into direct competition with the Porsche 911 SC just as it was about to be superseded by the Carrera 3.2, which would have probably still been faster than the twin-turbo DeLorean.  ... View more

You owned Porsche repair shops and prospered financially? You don't say! ... View more

It looks like he was using a primitive manual transmission to go faster than a street legal Porsche automatic has ever gone. I thought an automatic was necessary for people who care about performance. It's almost like talented drivers can still drive manuals for reasons other than being Luddites. ... View more

Ah, the Alfa-Romeo Arna. It promised the combination of Japanese styling with Italian reliability, at a time when the Italians were still considered to design more attractive cars than the Japanese. Who didn't want their Pulsar to be as hard to keep running as their Alfetta? Neither country was known for its rust-proofing in 1983, making a survivor all the more exclusive.  ... View more

Anyone remember how Ferrari got caught rolling back the odometers of cars that belonged to their favorite high-net-worth customers? Hamilton's father does! ... View more

Fatal Flaws: 1.  It is made by GM. Whoever you are, you probably have a compelling reason not to support GM. 2. After almost 60 years of mid-engined Corvette styling teases, the design is far from compelling. The interior is no better. 3. No available manual transmission. 4. Less practicality than any Corvette since the C3 received a hatchback. 5. Dealers who each bought several unwanted C7s just for the opportunity to gouge C8 buyers. ... View more

I went to Rome in the mid '70s when I was about five years old. My next door neighbors in the States had a '66 Beetle and a FIAT 128 sedan, which both seemed like tiny cars compared to the typical Valiants, Country Squires, Electra 225s and Impalas that I saw daily. In Rome, the Beetles and 128s served the same roles as Cutlasses and LTDs did in Virginia. Most traffic was made up of FIAT 500s, 600s and 850s in the city, and they were dwarfed by VW Type 1s. ... View more

I'm guessing that pressure to make the C8 hit a price point meant that several cents were shaved from the minimum viable cost of a plethora of components.  ... View more

This one is far too nice, but I'd love to modify a well-used Panoz Roadster to resemble a development of an Allard J2. I'd mount the fenders to the body, shave the bumpers, move the headlights back and up a bit, paint it in a black lacquer, go to five stamped wheels of the same size, mounting the spare on the passenger  side between the door and the fender, and possibly fit a grill.  It would probably seem like a fool's errand to someone down the road, but I can't afford a decent Allard and I doubt I'd enjoy the front camber change if I could.    https://silodrome.com/allard-j2-carroll-shelby/ ... View more

It's nice seeing a Jensen-Healey getting the love it needs to realize its potential. Is that an Austin-Healey blue? I seem to recall blue Jensen-Healeys being non-metallic and darker.  ... View more

I predict the two-door Bronco will be a flash in the pan at best. There's a Land Rover Evoque convertible in my parking lot, or at least there was until very recently. That's the only two-door Evoque I've seen since 2015, although the two-door was the distinctive one that all of the introduction promotion focused on. I'm not sure I've seen a two-door version of the current Wrangler, although the Gladiator is already ubiquitous and the Unlimited seems to come with one's fifth tattoo at all the local ink parlors.    I'm disappointed that people are trying to buy Broncos while Ford is trying to bring about censorship of conservative voices on social media platforms. That's about as un-American as a corporation can get, although it is consistent with decades of Ford Foundation conduct.    When you write that, "w e’re going to give a voice to some fairly controversial people and see what happens," I sincerely hope you realize that there is nothing controversial about social justice, inclusivity that is really exclusivity, or the deafening ubiquity of 'alternative' voices.  ... View more

The Bronco Sport should satiate the needs of former Land Rover Freelander drivers who've almost recovered financially from trying to keep them going.  The Bronco answers the question of what the International Scout would look like today had it remained in production without a better new idea for the past 40 years, as has occurred with the Porsche '911.'    The Jeep Wrangler is apparently going to get a V8 to respond to the Bronco. If Fiat is smart about it, they'll offer the basic 5.7 as an option in every model instead of putting the SRT6.4 in some special edition. If they do offer the 5.7 for under $40K, the Bronco will be over before it starts. ... View more

Hopefully this will shine a spotlight on short track racing and create a demand for a WoO TV package built around race lengths that consider the attention span of today's viewers. NASCAR is a dead sport crawling.  ... View more

Anything naturally aspirated with a stick will be money in the bank in a decade, assuming that money and banks still exist. ... View more

I wonder what my former coworker can get for the low mileage, near pristine , highly optioned '88 4WD Suburban that she paid three grand for three years ago. She did have to buy her own new set of BFG A/T KO3s.    I don't mind people with more money than imagination spending it all on Dutch bulbs, but I do worry that some of the money being squandered is being handed out by the Fed to whoever can least use it.  ... View more

I'm impressed that a 6'2" man raced a Formula Ford. I almost went to the Jim Russell School one year. I might have been lucky that it didn't work out, since even at 6'2" and 200 pounds getting into the FF I checked out at Button Willow would have required an unnatural act.  ... View more

Pretty sure a new belt is going to be needed after six years if the buyer wants to put any more miles on it.  ... View more

This has already been done, by Vegantune in the '80s and '90s. They are supposed to have sold 101 of their Evante 'continuation' Elans over the course of about a decade.    https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/february-1988/30/eventa-means   The problem with selling new Elans today would be that they use their drivers and passengers as crumple zones to protect their backbone frames. I wouldn't sell one unless it was into an environment with 1964 interpretations of tort law. Personal responsibility is a hate crime today. ... View more

It looks like it is based on a C8. ... View more

Do they offer a safari-length extension cord?  ... View more

Is it just me, or does the proposed car look far more like a Shelby Series 1 than a Ferrari? ... View more

There are high quality cars. There are luxurious cars. There are Ford cars. Unless you want a Lexus, you're stuck picking only one of the three options.  ... View more

It looks like a third generation Accord sedan. ... View more

Maserati was certainly making V6s with 90 degrees between the banks in the '70s, so I guess they're traditional. They were doing it because they had a V8 production line, a number of cylinders for which a 90 degree V is actually desirable. What was the reasoning for this engine?  The Maserati Porous Star V6 applications are the smoother running 60 degree configuration.  ... View more