What Should Be Done About Teen Driver Deaths?

Posted on Jul 28, 2017 in Safety | Comments Off on What Should Be Done About Teen Driver Deaths?

“Lane ends. Merge right.” The sign gave plenty of notice that the two-lane arterial merged into a single lane ahead. The speed limit was 35 miles per hour. I travelled in the right lane, doing about 40. My girlfriend sat in the passenger seat. To my left, I could tell the driver of a car behind me wanted to pass before his lane ended. “No way.” I stepped on the...

Zytek and Morgan Concoct Shiftable Electric Car for Geneva Show

Posted on Jul 24, 2017 in Technology | 1 comment

While major auto brands such as Lamborghini, Audi and Hyundai drew the initial enthusiasm expected for the 2012 Geneva Motor Show, the acclaim of this Swiss exhibition also attracts the likes of smaller European firms. It is from these smaller companies some of the most imaginative expressions of design and technological creativity radiates through the...

Cosworth Subaru Impreza STi CS400 Blows Away the Supercars

Posted on Jul 19, 2017 in Racing | Comments Off on Cosworth Subaru Impreza STi CS400 Blows Away the Supercars

Never having been an enormous fan of Subaru cars, I must admit they seem to have hit a home run with the new WRX STi from Cosworth. With a 0-62 mph time of 3.7 seconds, this beast can actually take on the Lambos and up-powered Porsches—or at least play in the same ballpark. Cosworth, one of the world’s great tuners and engine-tweakers, managed to get 395 hp...

Homeland Security to return seized Land Rover Defenders to U.S. buyers

Posted on Jul 15, 2017 in Featured | 2 comments

1995 Land Rover Defender 90. Last July, agents from the Department of Homeland Security, working with local law enforcement, seized more than two-dozen Land Rover Defenders from owners across the United States. All had two things in common: none was originally sold in the United States, and all were imported by Aaron Richardet, a North Carolina man with a...

Personal Luxury Cars: The Continental Mark

Posted on Jul 12, 2017 in Antique | Comments Off on Personal Luxury Cars: The Continental Mark

Stylishly beautiful, subtle and understated, a car that epitomizes excellence. The Continental Mark II is Audrey Hepburn in a world of Paris Hiltons. The Lincoln Mark series started with the development of the Continental line, a division created specifically to market one car, the Continental Mark II. Sharing none of the excesses of its competition, the Mark...