Check out this toy from PLX Devices. It’s a gauge that plugs straight into your OBD-II port on your car (assuming you have an OBD-II car) that delivers info on everything from RPM, engine load, coolant temp and air temp to error codes. Screw running a tangle of wires for 10 plus aftermarket gauges, this [...]

As the whole world knows by now, I lust after Se7ens. Purest driving car there is, period. Yeah, you got X-Bows and Atoms and all that jazz, but those are just over-roided variations of Colin Chapman’s winning theme. The well-ran Se7en above has the motor from a Honda CBR 900 beating in its chest, giving [...]

The term “go-kart like handling” is about as aggravating as an Ohioan in the fast lane. Tossed about by marketing fools and automakers alike, it was about time someone put a stop to the dumbassery. The guys over at webridestv.com finally decided to call MINI’s bluff on their claim that the pint size bruiser is [...]

Well sir, I had a hell of a time. The more attentive readers out there will remember I was going to be a crooked judge at LeMons, trying to figure out the more obvious cheaters. Remember, there’s a $500 limit on each and every race car. Meaning if you spend more than that, you’re penalized [...]

I’ve heard there’s a special level of hell where all you do for the rest of eternity is buy auto insurance. It’s right between the never ending root canal and trying to resolve anything with the IRS. Caterham — the only Se7en maker that gets to call their Se7en a Seven — has recognized its [...]

BMW is offering a “competition package” for the M6 starting with next year’s update. So far there’s no word on power tweaks. Instead, the company is focusing on honing the car’s already delicious handling by dropping the front half an inch and the rear a smidge less. The really neat trick is the active-chassis monitoring [...]

If loose lips sink ships, the automotive industry should be underwater by now. Oh wait. Just a day after Nissan let slip the important info on the GT-R Spec V, a masked figure from Honda spilled the goods on the resurrected NSX. Here’s what we think we know: 600 horsepower (or better), 433 lb-ft of [...]

You know we’re going crazy waiting for the Fiat 500 to hit our shores, so it was with no small amount of glee that we read about Jim Magill shipping one of the little cars from Northern Ireland and proceeding to take it from Manhattan to Washington State. Magill and his co-driver hit all of [...]

Yeah, yeah, the British Motor Show seems like it was about five years ago, but we couldn’t help but point this little beggar out. It’s Honda’s Open Study Model, or OSM. A convertible two-seater, there are no specifics on powertrain due to the fact that the car is just a design study. We can’t help [...]

Depending on who you are, the name Datsun either brings to mind decently quick, fun cars or economical commuting hell. We’re guessing Benjamin Nawka was banking on the first idea when he penned the XLink Concept thesis project for the Nissan Yulon Design Center at Pforzheim University. The car was meant as an exercise in [...]