Drifter and racer Ken Gushi has impressive skills behind the wheel, and this wasn't his first time up Pikes Peak in a Lexus IS F, so as you'd expect, the 2013 effort with the IS F CCS-R was a serious affair. The video shows the highlights from the team's week on the mountain, from car prep to practice to the timed runs. Lexus was shooting for the...
Lexus is finally set to launch an IS coupe, only it won’t be marketed as an IS but as a standalone model. This week we got our first spy shots of the car and looking at just this single image we can see that it will feature a muscular and well-proportioned design. We’re expecting the new Lexus to be called an RC, based on some of the...
The Infiniti renaming scheme doesn't make a lot of sense from a "why" perspective, but it's not all that hard to get to the how--that is, which cars will be changing names. What might be even less difficult is deciding between a new 2014 Infiniti Q50 and a new G37 Sedan. That will be a valid choice, for a while at least, as Infiniti is planning to...
Much has been made of the significance of the two-door M3's name change to M4. But both M3 and M4 will live on in the 2014 model year, despite the nomenclatural bifurcation. The real test, of course, will be how the new M4 drives. If it's lighting lap times on fire and stunning stoplight racers, the name will be a technicality. Fortunately, we may...
Newport Convertible Engineering is known for taking fixed-roof machines and chopping them up to create convertible versions. The company does it with pretty much every vehicle out there, and the results certainly vary. One vehicle we wouldn't expect them to apply the drop-top conversion to would be a luxury off-roader like the latest Range Rover...
There's no doubt Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] has built a high-performance luxury sedan in the Model S. As a bonus, it's all-electric. Future Tesla vehicles may be even more finely tuned, however, as the company has just bought a 35-acre test track facility next door to its Fremont, California factory. The 35-acre plot contains more than half of a...
We often hear about the horsepower wars that are still taking place amongst a variety of automotive manufacturers. Only slightly lesser-known are the GT-R wars. This is a battle of a handful of aftermarket tuning companies that seek to push Godzilla to more and more amazing feats of speed. The latest salvo has been fired by Alpha Performance. This...
We’ve heard a lot about the autonomous car technology coming from the major automakers, but they aren’t alone in developing it. Major automotive suppliers are also responsible for much of the technology, including development of many of the components that make autonomous cars a reality. We’ve already seen what Germany’s...
Thirteen years since its three-peat 1-2 finishes at Le Mans, the SRT Viper is back--and though it didn't blow the doors off the GT field in this year's 24 Hours of Le Mans, the team counts the race a success. The drivers, including Tommy Kendall, Kuno Wittmer, Ryan Dalziel, and more, tell us what went into the grueling endurance race, as well as...
Though we've seen the 2014 Porsche Macan in testing, virtually undisguised, and we've heard it's coming to the 2013 Los Angeles Auto Show for a global debut, today we get our first official timeline on the Macan: production starts in December. The Macan will be built at Porsche's Leipzig facility. A release announcing the completion of a paint...
Drifter and racer Ken Gushi has impressive skills behind the wheel, and this wasn't his first time up Pikes Peak in a Lexus IS F, so as you'd expect, the 2013 effort with the IS F CCS-R was a serious affair. The video shows the highlights from the team's week on the mountain, from car prep to practice to the timed runs. Lexus was shooting for the...
Lexus is finally set to launch an IS coupe, only it won’t be marketed as an IS but as a standalone model. This week we got our first spy shots of the car and looking at just this single image we can see that it will feature a muscular and well-proportioned design. We’re expecting the new Lexus to be called an RC, based on some of the...
The Infiniti renaming scheme doesn't make a lot of sense from a "why" perspective, but it's not all that hard to get to the how--that is, which cars will be changing names. What might be even less difficult is deciding between a new 2014 Infiniti Q50 and a new G37 Sedan. That will be a valid choice, for a while at least, as Infiniti is planning to...
Much has been made of the significance of the two-door M3's name change to M4. But both M3 and M4 will live on in the 2014 model year, despite the nomenclatural bifurcation. The real test, of course, will be how the new M4 drives. If it's lighting lap times on fire and stunning stoplight racers, the name will be a technicality. Fortunately, we may...
Newport Convertible Engineering is known for taking fixed-roof machines and chopping them up to create convertible versions. The company does it with pretty much every vehicle out there, and the results certainly vary. One vehicle we wouldn't expect them to apply the drop-top conversion to would be a luxury off-roader like the latest Range Rover...
There's no doubt Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] has built a high-performance luxury sedan in the Model S. As a bonus, it's all-electric. Future Tesla vehicles may be even more finely tuned, however, as the company has just bought a 35-acre test track facility next door to its Fremont, California factory. The 35-acre plot contains more than half of a...
We often hear about the horsepower wars that are still taking place amongst a variety of automotive manufacturers. Only slightly lesser-known are the GT-R wars. This is a battle of a handful of aftermarket tuning companies that seek to push Godzilla to more and more amazing feats of speed. The latest salvo has been fired by Alpha Performance. This...
We’ve heard a lot about the autonomous car technology coming from the major automakers, but they aren’t alone in developing it. Major automotive suppliers are also responsible for much of the technology, including development of many of the components that make autonomous cars a reality. We’ve already seen what Germany’s...
Thirteen years since its three-peat 1-2 finishes at Le Mans, the SRT Viper is back--and though it didn't blow the doors off the GT field in this year's 24 Hours of Le Mans, the team counts the race a success. The drivers, including Tommy Kendall, Kuno Wittmer, Ryan Dalziel, and more, tell us what went into the grueling endurance race, as well as...
Though we've seen the 2014 Porsche Macan in testing, virtually undisguised, and we've heard it's coming to the 2013 Los Angeles Auto Show for a global debut, today we get our first official timeline on the Macan: production starts in December. The Macan will be built at Porsche's Leipzig facility. A release announcing the completion of a paint...
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