You’ve gotta love the American way. Where something is good, more of that something will always be better. Need proof? Have a look at Specialty Car Craft’s latest creation – a widebody Lotus Exige with the stock supercharger and a turbo. Combined effect is around 500 horsepower, and the serious meat at the rear makes [...]
It would seem the good boys and gals at Stuttgart have gotten tired of putting up with Nissan playing in their back yard, and in a move to prove once and for all there is no sports car before the 911, have revealed the 2010 911 Turbo. Powered by a 3.8-liter flat six borrowed from [...]
Way, way long ago, we made mention of Volvo’s new CUV, the XC60. The tiny ute has been making waves with a neat new bit of tech called City Safety where the vehicle will actually stop itself in the event of an imminent fender bender. Before you start having big brother-esque thoughts, don’t worry. The [...]
Maybe so, Fiends. Good Dr. Lieberman over at WebRidesTV has unearthed an interesting category on the car’s option sheet. Simply labeled “Turbo Kit,” no one knows exactly what the deal is. Sure, we know Ford’s itching for up to 90 percent of its fleet to boast Ecoboost (direct injection + turbo), but if the Blue [...]
To say this car is attractive would be like saying Megan Fox is pretty. Adjectives simply fail to operate as intended. Our first day with the Pontiac Solstice Coupe GXP, we almost caused not one, but two fender benders – while parked. One guy nearly drove his minivan, complete with wife and three screaming children, [...]
Porsche’s turned out some more rolling footage of the portly Panamera, complete with a world-class sound track. Plenty of sprawling countryside and rolling tarmac are on tap. The more I look at this car, the more I’m ok with everything from the rear doors forward. Past that, the design looses me in a big way. [...]
As if news Porsche’s 914 successor isn’t meant to be wans’t bad enough, it looks like VW is wavering on whether or not to build the diesel roadster. The company cites the economy (you think?) as the big factor on whether or not the drop-top ever sees the light of day again. Of course we’ve [...]
Lingenfelter may have been one of the first to take a crack at making crazy power out of the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro, but they won’t be the last. Example? The Fiends at Artisan have worked up a twin-turbo kit for the beast of a V8 under the new muscle car’s hood. Power gets a serious [...]
This week has been a good one for fans of low-displacement, forced-induction mills. First, Audi announced its plans to split the motors in the S4 and S5 in twain. Then Volvo joined the club with news that turbo fours will start cropping up in its rides sometime soon. Now, according to Motor Trend, mighty BMW [...]
Secret time, Fiends. See, like most of the other demented fools around here, I’ve got a wagon bent. There’s just something awesome about them. That’s not the secret though. When I was in school I knew a girl with an old turbo diesel Mercedes-Benz. She got the car for a song from a family friend, [...]
