I grew up surrounded by the original British Leyland (RIP) version of this car in the home counties of England. They weren’t exactly the cool kid car to have, but here in Los Angeles you can’t swing a cat without hitting a Mini by BMW driven by everyone from yummy mummies to studio execs. Finally [...]
I was somewhat surprised when the invite to drive a new 2009 Subaru Impreza WRX hit my inbox a few weeks ago, just somewhat. You see the all new 2008 model hadn’t exactly overwhelmed anyone on launch. Nor on any subsequent drives. So a revamp was pretty much in the cards from the moment the [...]
What happens when you combine obsession, talent and outright genius with the soul of a car fanatic? You get the Zonda from Pagani. This car is everything you hoped it would be. The Zonda F succeeds in making meticulous engineering beautiful. Its skeleton and heart are one: While every advanced material and technique is used [...]
From behind the wheel the Reventon feels very similar to it’s Murcielago cousin. The 10hp difference is unperceivable but the brakes feel more capable, which is good because the looks of the car turn normal passers by into crazed zombies meandering towards you in search of brains. (Hit the jump for more…)
Still making this up as we go along–this time COTW is Car Of The Weekend since we’re only getting the GT-R for four days over the weekend. Finally I got my grubby mitts on a GT-R. (Thanks, Darryll!) Kind of sucks a little though as I’ll be on the floor at the X Games Rally [...]
The folks at Lexus really, and I do mean really, want us to believe that the IS-F was designed by a small team of performance minded engineers in their off time without having to answer to bean counters or mid-level management. If that were true, the car probably would have never gotten out of bar-napkin [...]
I’m a big fan of KTM — I’ve owned a few of their motorcycles, both dirt and street over the years and they always top their niche for performance — KTM is the Porsche of the bike world. Like that small German car company, in the early nineties the Austrian bike company was on the [...]
Car Magazine UK gets all the good stuff and today they just posted their drive impressons on the Mercedes F600 Fuel Cell concept that was first shown at the 2005 Tokyo Auto Show. With an electric motor juiced by a next generation hydrogen fuel cell, it’s not unlike the Honda FCX Clarity that Angelenos in [...]
Carma is a bitch. Yes, Carma… not Karma. For every stupid thing that you do behind the wheel, there is an equal consequence. Of course Carma points accumulate, so if you perform a weekend full of stupid things behind the wheel of a 2008 Mazda RX-8 40th Anniversary Edition, those negative points are going to [...]
I’m sipping on a double shot cappuccino at the Coffee Bean in Studio City waiting for a buddy to arrive for a Sunday morning canyon ride. It’s early and there’s no one around. Suddenly I spot a metallic light blue Lotus Elise pulling in. Wait a minute, that’s not an Elise, that’s a freaking Tesla! [...]
