New BMW Headlights Solve Old Problem

Posted on Dec 18, 2021 in Safety | 1 comment

Imagine a world where you never have to worry about turning down your brights as you drive. We’ve all been there, happily zooming down a country lane or lonely highway with the road in front of us bathed in ample light, our cars cutting through the darkness with high beams in full force. Then a car approaches. We think nothing of it until the approaching...

Most Beautiful Cars: The Citroen DS

Posted on Dec 18, 2021 in Antique | Comments Off on Most Beautiful Cars: The Citroen DS

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it. – Voltaire It is said that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Lately, I’ve been reading some lists of “Beautiful Cars” that force me to believe the beholder was blind. One website, Edmunds lists the 1973 Pontiac Grand Am and the 1985 Chevrolet Camaro in the 100...

Hypercar Hybrids from Porsche and Ferrari

Posted on Dec 17, 2021 in Racing | 4 comments

Design study for the F70 We have written about the incredible Porsche 918 hybrid before, with details here and here. Now, 918 Spyder prototypes have been spotted testing, looking a little like the old 917 race cars (see pix here). The 918 will produce some 770 hp from a V8 and “two independent electric motors, one on the front and one in the drive line, acting...

Top 5 Mercedes-Benz Engines

Posted on Dec 12, 2021 in Technology | 2 comments

I was driving along Route 19 in McMurray, Pennsylvania several weeks ago and noticed a hot looking German car in the area’s cigar shop parking lot. I have seen so many Mercedes-Benz AMG cars there including, but not limited to, normally aspirated C63 AMGs all the way to the SLS AMG Coupe. “I bet that gets up and goes,” I thought to myself. I started thinking...

Fuel Cell Plus High Output Equal Lexus LF-FC

Posted on Dec 3, 2021 in Concept | Comments Off on Fuel Cell Plus High Output Equal Lexus LF-FC

The Japanese car manufacturer continues to announce new concepts before Geneva Motor Show. This time, they reveal the LF-FC concept, which foreshadows the production high-output fuel-cell Lexus vehicle. So, around 2020, Lexus will launch a fuel-cell car, which won’t make a compromise between the dynamics and the zero-emission propulsion system. As a proof that...

How Automotive Payola Works: A Case Study Starring Wayne Gerdes and Volkswagen

Posted on Dec 3, 2021 in Editorials | 1 comment

When a self-described automotive journalist attempts a fuel economy record, you expect his attempt to be objective — or, at least, as objective as such an attempt can be. However, when an automaker is willing to pay that automotive journalist thousands of dollars for the effort, with payment possibly dependent on achieving the desired record, objectivity falls...

Fifty years later, there’s still no racing like the original Can Am series

Posted on Dec 1, 2021 in Featured | 2 comments

Peter Revson’s 1972 McLaren M20 Can-Am car. In 1966, the SCCA’s U.S. Road Racing Championship spun off a new series, created in cooperation with the Canadian Automobile Sports Club (CASC). Officially called the Canadian-American Challenge Cup, or Can-Am for short, the series would go on to become, arguably, the greatest form of motor racing the world has ever...