As entertaining as the small rear-drive coupes jointly developed by Subaru and Toyota/Scion are, they aren’t particularly speedy in a straight line. Granted, you don’t buy a Scion FR-S or Subaru BRZ to do battle...
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It’s pretty staggering that the fastest airplane in the world (that the public knows about, at least, because there’s no telling what’s buzzing around Groom Lake…) is still the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, a vehicle designed...
In the pantheon of overused-to-the-point-of-becoming-meaningless words, “legend” is at or near the top of the pile. But applying the term to all-American boy and global racing icon Daniel Sexton Gurney absolutely would absolutely, under no...
British sports car maker TVR has been dormant for more than a decade as the nameplate passed through numerous ownership changes, legal battles, and other events not related to building automobiles. It’s all been quite...
A look at the final results of sheet of this past weekend’s 84th 24 Hours of Le Mans will tell you that the #2 Porsche 919 Hybrid won, scoring the German marque’s record-extending 18th overall...
A couple of weeks ago, we brought you a list of 10 performance-oriented Chevrolets that could best be described as outside the mainstream, with nary a Corvette or Camaro in sight. Well, of course we...
For an automotive nameplate that has, for much of its life, been positioned as a sensible, blue collar one, Chevrolet sure has built a heaping butt-ton of performance models. Names like Nova SS, Chevelle SS,...
The original Porsche 911 Targa, introduced in 1967, wasn’t the car Porsche necessarily wanted to build, but the one it thought it would have to build. You see, around that time the U.S. government was...
As large and as lucrative as the U.S. new car market has been for virtually its entire existence, pretty much every major automaker has nevertheless kept the good stuff out of our hands on at...
Since its debut as a 1990 model, the Mazda MX-5 Miata has been all about the fun of driving. Forza Horizon 2 is a video game that’s all about the fun of driving. So it...