The 2009 Malaysian GP ended almost as unspectacularly as the Australian GP did the previous weekend. It ended in the rain after just 32 laps had been run. In another similarity to Australia, Jenson Button won another race for Ross Brawn GP. That is, Button was declared the winner after race officials decided to cancel [...]
March is here again, which for most Americans means getting excited about college basketball and economic stimulus checks [Ed: and my birthday]. For those of us with a motorsports bent, that also means watching a bunch of guys with sideburns and bad dye jobs see who can master the left turn. But for those of [...]
Check out this gem from the Melbourne Auto Show. It’s called the FR 1 Roadster, and despite its ’34 Ford looks, this sucker’s a mid-engine rear driver. The carbon fiber frame is wrapped in hand-formed aluminum and a Commodore Chevrolet 6.0-liter V8 is mated with a Ferrari 355 gearbox just behind the seats. Speaking of [...]
I. Jaguar is putting its 272 hp diesel V6 in the XK. The engine debuts in Europe this spring in the XF saloon sedan, but a thinly disguised XK was caught testing at Nurburgring with a distinctive diesel rattle. Hooray for torques. [Surce: Autocar]
II. NASCAR rookie Tony Logano will become the youngest ever driver to [...]
I. While we may not be getting the Pontiac G8 ST, Brit importers already have the Holden version, called the Maloo, on the grey market. It may have a silly name, and even sillier paint schemes, but it’s hard to argue with a 425 hp kangaroo killer. All that power, and Autocar claims it can [...]
Two things I love: Australian cars and old advertisements. Today’s POTD is both. Those are Holen EJ Specials. You can tell they’re “Special” because unlike the standard EJ these two sport white roofs. A bit more chrome, too. Of course you could opt for the Premier model which had leather bucket seats, four armrests and a [...]
If you read our Fiend vs. Fiend about the Mazda RX-8 R3 you’re well aware that Levy and I were a few ticks past smitten with the rotary powered wonder. So, for today’s POTD I was thinking I should go with a nice first generation RX-7. But to channel my own inner Murilee Martin, that [...]
Well, the first teaser for Top Gear Australia has officially hit the interweb, and it looks like the boys down under have managed to capture some of the magic that makes the original show so bloody fantastic. The short clip after the jump shows all kinds of fun debauchery, including a beater race, an aqua [...]
Consider this the first in a (probable) long line of wins for Godzilla. Fabcar’s GT-R took the gold at the Australian Quit Targa West, a tarmac rally, on nothing but a single set of Dunlop street tires. Piloted by 24-year old Steven Jones, the team beat out the likes of Porsche 911 GT2’s and Lamborghini [...]
Lieberman: I knew the formula going in. Big V8, rear wheel drive, well sorted chassis, designed and built in Australia before being tarted up with a Pontiac badge. We’ve seen this before, too. Bob Lutz did the same thing with a Holden Monaro when Pontiac rebadged it as a GTO. Yet even though that car [...]
