The Porsche 959 holds legend as being one of the original supercars. Like grandpa Mel says, it’s good to be the king. The 959 has great Group B homologation history. It’s also the reason why Porsches have AWD, especially the Turbo models. They had 450 horsepower out of the factory, but many of the 200 [...]

Back in the day, brown cars ruled. Steve McQueen’s Ferrari 250 GT Berlinetta Lusso was brown. And Kojak’s Buick Century was brown. The Fall Guy’s Chevy? Brown on brown. Dirty Harry’s car? Brown. And… my first car — the Lieberwagon — was brown, too. But, the point is that brown cars look really good. Like, [...]

Porschephiles, car nerds and stoked trophy wives have long referred to the Porsche GT2 as simply the “Widowmaker.” At heart the GT2 is a Porsche Turbo with less weight, more power and two fewer wheels driven. The 996 iteration was particularly menacing as it had no traction control whatsoever. In fact, the new 997 GT2 has been [...]

Nissan Day is without end! Full Disclosure: SpeedSportLife’s Jack Baruth is not only a friend of mine, but was on my LeMons team last May. He’s a pretty good driver, too. Full Disclosure 2.0: Here at Autofiends we love nothing more than reporting on the latest Nurburgring “Lap Record.” Why just this very morning Zach put [...]

Oh snap! It took the French Japanese company a week or so, but they’ve produced the very tires that ran the miraculous ‘Ring lap time. After Porsche engineers went so far as to buy a GT-R in the US, fly it to Germany and then do their best to replicate the 7:29 lap time that [...]

Well, OK — not that naughty. But podcasting on Rosh Hashana? Tsk, tsk. Anyhow, got a good one for you today. Justin and me discuss the finer points of French ludicrousness, the upcoming smack down cage/ladder match between Porsche and Nissan, the long awaited sequel to the Great Depression, what lies beyond hybrids (fuel cells!) [...]

Before Chevrolet, Cadillac, Nissan, Dodge and Acura all decided that their various products’ Nurburgring times were essential marketing tools, other makes ran their cars round der ’Ring just for the thrill of it. One such company is RUF, and as we just got done posting on their upcoming all electric car I figured some of you might [...]

It’s a slow news day so how about a retrospective on the must-have race rim of the late ‘70s and early ‘80s—Gotti Wheels. Tell me you don’t remember first seeing a set of these two and three piece modular kicks on that Porsche Turbo poster your best buddy’s cool older bro had next to Farrah [...]

Chevrolet, makers of the Aveo sedan and 5-door hatch, can now lay claim to the production car Nurburgring Norschleife record. With pilot (and GM boffin) Jim Mero at the helm, the Blue Devil took flight and popped off a 7:26.4 second romp around the most famous stretch of public highway in the world. This is [...]

Here’s the long and the short: this year’s Bullrun began in Calgary, Alberta, Canada on June 20. It finishes tomorrow (June 27) in Phoenix. Last night the happy go lucky band of (rich) car enthusiasts parked their rides along the Sunset Strip and got tanked. We showed up and snapped a few photos, met some [...]