In the final installment of the “Corvette versus the World” Edmunds track test battles, the C7 Corvette meets the 2014 Porsche Cayman S. Despite a 135-horsepower deficit to the Corvette, the Porsche proves itself a worthy adversary in straight-line performance. Let’s run through the figures: 0-60 in 4.4 seconds for the Porsche; 4.1 seconds for […] More »

Even though the most iconic tree in North American motor sports fell to the ground in early July of this year, the next ALMS event will keep its name.  A thirty-five car field will take the green flag at Virginia International Raceway for the Oak Tree Grand Prix this weekend. In P1, Muscle Milk/Pickett Racing […] More »

I never want to be in this guy’s position. Getting into a car accident is already one of the most awful feelings the average driver will ever have. It’s an awful feeling even if your daily driver is a beater and no one is hurt. Wrecking your dream car though? That’s a double whammy. Rob […] More »

I remember my first time at Disneyland. The sense of wonder I felt was something that has gone unmatched ever since. It seems Disneyland is the product of someone who dropped an acid tablet, recalled their childhood, and built a theme park. I’m not saying Walt Disney did that, but he was a little different, wasn’t […] More »

This is another all-generation Porsche 911 gathering that will make your heart melt faster than a Kit Kat bar thrown onto a Palm Springs sidewalk in August, and will make your brain grin from cranial wall to cranial wall. Congregating all 911s from 1963 to 2013 is great and all, but getting the cars to […] More »

Christian von Koenigsegg is working on his next low-flying cruise missile. It’s called the Koenigsegg One:1, and is named after the car’s weight-to-power ratio of one kilogram per horsepower. The One:1 will have 1,400 horsepower and weigh only 1,400 kilograms, or 3,086 lbs. I should add, that’s the hypercar’s wet weight — the weight with […] More »

When VW Group was engineering the Bugatti Veyron for its 2005 market introduction, they knew the car would be sold at a loss. A recent study by Berstein Research indicates VW Group has sacrificed $6.27 million on every Bugatti Veyron sold. That sounds pretty awful until you realize that, more than anything, the Veyron was […] More »