A fitting tribute to the legendary F1 champ One could imagine the inspiration felt within McLaren at naming a model after Aryton Senna. The legendary Formula One champion driver died tragically in a crash in the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix in Imola, Italy in his first season for the Williams team. Naming an ultimate track […]
As original as it gets There cannot be too many car enthusiasts who have not seen a 1962-1967 Cobra on the road or at car shows. That is a remarkable occurrence considering just under 1,000 were ever built by Shelby American in cooperation with AC Cars in England and Ford, which supplied the V8 engines. […]
For stick-shift 911 fans, it’s the automatic choice. Perusing the 2025 Porsche 911 model line is a bit like trying to choose toothpaste from the bewildering selection in the supermarket aisle. There are so many kinds, each promising one advantage or another. You can wrack your brain trying to decide which is just right for […]
Maserati unleashes another true track car. Age-wise, the number of people who remember Maserati’s road-racing glory days of the late 1950s would be quite small today, but the marque is leveraging some recent racing with a new road model, the MC20 GT2 Stradale. The MC20 GT2 racer that currently competes in the Fanatec GT2 European […]
The blocky luxury SUV soldiers into its 45th year It’s kind of funny how three vehicles that began as bare-bones military trucks, the Jeep, Land Rover, and Mercedes-Benz Geländewagen today remain in-demand everyday drivers. The Mercedes and Range Rover, of course, compete in luxury segments that belie their bootcamp roots. The latest generation of […]
The mighty 911 Turbo reaches its golden anniversary Celebrating anniversaries seems to be a full-time task for marketing departments of luxury car companies. Heck, some even celebrate the anniversary of movies their cars appeared in. (Looking at you, Aston Martin DBS OMHHS.) We can cut Porsche some slack for marking a milestone not only for […]
A blazingly quick plug-in hybrid If the mention of “plug-in hybrid” conjures images of Toyota Priuses and family SUVs in your mind, Lamborghini’s Urus SE should be like a powerful magnet wiping your mental hard drive clean. In fact, there are magnets in it, because it has an electric motor. It just happens to be […]
It’s McLaren’s third “1” in 30 years. Combining modesty with just a dash of hubris, McLaren calls its new W1 the “The real supercar.” Does that mean other supercars are not real, or are not super? With 1,258 horsepower from a plug-in hybrid powertrain and a total vehicle weight of a claimed 3,300 pounds, we’d […]
Last of Maserati’s “Windy” GTs Like fellow Italian exotic car maker Lamborghini, Maserati hit head winds in the late 1970s as economic issues and rising fuel prices took bites out of the exotic car segment. Speaking of winds, Maserati would issue its final front-engine GT of this period, the Khamsin, using the Egyptian name for […]
