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 [...]
2009 Automobile of the Year – Vile GossipNo time like present hard times to focus on our 2009 Automobile Of The Year.
Excuse me while I duck yet another phone call from a cable television news channel that wants me to predict exactly which day the evil Cerberus will be folding its tent and blowing town, [...]
