Volkswagen Group: Europe’s Largest Manufacturer – Noise, Vibration, and HarshnessSuccess, Winston Churchill once observed, is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. By that measure, Volkswagen is as successful as they come.
Success, Winston Churchill once observed, is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. By [...]
Splinter: Wooden Supercar – Got Wood?From God’s own composite, Joe Harmon is making a renewable supercar.
Yes, this is a wooden car. Forget the jokes. Anyone making more than mere decorative use of wood in an automobile has heard them all. And doesn’t care. Wood is a magnificent structural material, “God’s own composite,” proclaimed the late [...]
2008 Mazda Kiyora – By DesignThe Kiyora is a full-out dream car, as far from production as the long-ago Cadillac Cyclone and just as wonderful in its own way.
Make no mistake, the Mazda Kiyora is not a concept car. At least, not as the term is typically used these days, when what is presented as [...]
2010 Porsche Cayenne S Transsyberia – Mongol HordeA rally-racing Cayenne? Porsche factory driver Carles Celma is making a convincing argument for it, a twenty-foot rooster tail of shredded earth spewing from the rear tires as he power-slides down a straightaway.
A rally-racing Cayenne? Porsche factory driver Carles Celma is making a convincing argument for it, a [...]
2010 Ford Mustang – Toned PonyWill the 2010 Ford Mustang’s massaged sheetmetal and renewed interior be enough to fend off its new rivals?
When the 2010 Mustang gallops into Ford showrooms in the spring, it will face more competition than it has seen in decades. The Dodge Challenger, which arrived in SRT8 form last year, now [...]
