At first glance, it seems as if Josh Condon, Road & Track’s senior editor, has a sweet gig.  He gets to spend at least one day driving the 2014 Audi RS7 and luxuriating in its leather and wood grain cockpit. But there’s a trade-off. Although he describes the $100,000+ four-door coupe as “crazy, stupid fast” […] More »

Automotive marketers like to reference racing pedigree, motorsport heritage, and strongly branded buzz phrases to describe their performance oriented offerings. It’s where you get couplets like race-inspired, performance-driven, or looks-fast (lol) to describe cars that generally never see performance usage outside of rare spirited back roads while stuck behind a slow CUV, or a quick […] More »

Maserati’s new Ghibli sedan is here.  It looks sexy, and its 3.0-liter twin-turbo V6 makes as much as 404 horsepower. Perhaps that’s not the most effective advertisement, but hey—it’s cheap.  Unlike the 90-second spot about the car Maserati ran during the Super Bowl. The Italian company sold 15,400 vehicles in 2013.  Automotive News states the […] More »

This is some very un-Porsche-like news. Owners of the latest generation of GT3 (you know, the one with the 9000 rpm redline), might have reason to worry that their cars have a proclivity for pyrotechnics. Five different cars across Europe have been reported in Europe according to Motor Authority. Porsche product communications manager, Nick Twork, […] More »

And my verdict is… they can keep it, though considering they have plans to import this Canadian built sports car to the U.S, perhaps a well-backed deportation petition could be a better suited move. I apologize in advance, I hate being mean. It gives me a searing pain at the bottom of my lungs and […] More »

I’m sure there are car nuts out there whose biggest problem with the new McLaren P1 is that it’s not the legendary F1 from the ’90s.  Jalopnik writer Raphael Orlove is not one of those people. He noticed the two British hypercars have the same greenhouse outline.  A carbon fiber “window” panel in the rear […] More »

You’re looking at an R34 Skyline GT-R N1, one of 12 factory built race cars from Nismo, Nissan’s in-house Motorsports tuning division. This listing was spotted on our Twitter feed by RJ’s director of business operations (proof that we’re all car enthusiasts here), and after noticing that it was on consignment with the Auto Kennel in sort-of-nearby Costa Mesa, California, […] More »