Well, Desire beats LaCrosse. If you don’t know, LaCrosse is A) a medium-sized town in Wisconsin founded by French fur traders in the 17th century B) one of four sports that Jim Brown lettered in at Syracuse C) a French-Canadian term for jacking off. And until today, LaCrosse was also the name of yet another dull-mobile [...]
Subaru plans to crank out a special edition WRX STI to commemorate the car’s 20th birthday. Complete with a few suspension tweaks and a couple of exterior additions, the car is bound to hold a special place in the covetous hearts of Subie owners everywhere. This special STI comes with even more aggressive springs and [...]
One of the things I love most about Jack Baruth’s writing is his unrepentant contrarianism. Think turbos are cool? Wrong! You want steam power. Low profile tires? Go back to you XBOX — all real racers drive on thick cement tires. Big brake kit? Use your grandpa’s WW2 parachute — the one down in mama’s [...]
There are a few phrases in the automotive world that blend together so perfectly, they (should) give all you Fiends goosebumps. Like “small block” and “Corvette” or “Lamborghini” and “12 Cylinders” Here’s two more: “Turbocharged 5-Cylinder” and “Audi Quattro.” That’s right, your mind should be filling with images of mad Quattro S1s terrorizing rally stages [...]
Lieberman: Full disclosure right up front: I’ve owned one Subaru WRX or another for the past seven years. Hopped-up, hot-handling little rally cars are my bag. That said, I wasn’t mentally prepared for how screamingly competent the new EVO X would be. If you think of cars as athletes, you can call a Viper a [...]
Honestly, I’m a bit flummoxed by the Infiniti FX50 AWD. In several key, measurable ways it’s superior to the car it replaces, the FX45. But in other ways, it’s… worse isn’t the word — as there is hardly anything bad about the new FX50 – somehow it just doesn’t make as much sense. The thing [...]
Many might look at us comparing the Subaru WRX STI to the Infiniti G35x and see it as logical as contrasting Motley Crüe to Britney Spears. But think about it: both the Crüe and Britney sold millions of records, were teenage millionaires, engaged in tabloid-hounded celebrity affairs and had their careers torn apart by drugs [...]
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Back in May, Audi dangled this little gem in front of our noses. It’s the A3 TDi Clubsport Quattro concept. Power is put to all four wheels thanks to a turbo four-cylinder chugging Audi’s favorite fuel—diesel. The result is 224 horses and 331 lb-ft of torque. Power-wise that’s not quite STi and Evo X territory, [...]
You might remember Zach’s love letter to the Volvo V50 Wagon. Not to rain on parades, but there’s a new tubocharged AWD wagon I’m a bit more interested in. It’s called the Saab Turbo X, and it’s on sale now. The $43,310 asking price might seem steep, but check out what you get. First [...]
