Checklists can be quite helpful in life. They allow you to consolidate your thoughts. They keep things organized. And of course, they help you to prioritize. Speaking of which, when it comes to cars, most people have a personal checklist. As far as automotive priorities go, the following criteria usually rate highly: Rear-wheel-drive: check. Manual […] More »

As I write this, it’s exactly six months since a simple twist of a key silenced one of the greatest production engines of all time. And despite the passage of time, the memory of that enveloping silence remains vivid. As does every run to the engine’s 8500rpm redline, every throttle-blipped downshift and every time the […] More »

What’s going on? Why is the new 911 so, well, anodyne? It was getting late and a bunch of English journos was giving Michael Schätzle something of a hard time. Porsche only had itself to blame. As well as giving us the new cars to drive from Santa Barbara to the Santa Maria Jet Center, […] More »

A friend of mine once owned a Lotus Exige S. The track-ready machine was a variant of the already nimble Elise, but with a fixed roof and a big ol’ supercharger bolted onto its mid-mounted, 4-cylinder engine. The weekend he took delivery of the car — coated in British racing green, of course — the […] More »

The Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG CoupĂ© Black Series is one mean looking machine, but don’t let that fool you too much. As the fourth model to garner AMG’s ultimate performance label, yes, it’s a bit of an animal – but boy does it have a big heart. That almost goes without saying when a car of […] More »

Bringing a classic into the modern day can create challenges. Often the soul of the original is missing, and a redesign can dilute its appeal. But what if you could keep that original body and infuse it with a modern-day chassis? Well, that’s exactly what the team at ICON has done with the Bronco. You’ll […] More »

Teamspeed.com member Trax shares with us another great review, this time of the highly controversial Ferrari FF. Trax tells us he drove the four-wheel-drive Ferrari the last time he was down at the factory in Maranello, but the factory chaperone kept literally freaking out every time he got to 100mph. Lucky for us Trax got […] More »