Jonathon Klein, Author at 6SpeedOnline - Page 53 of 65

A few months back we learned that Jaguar had finally heard all our prayers and said they would finally start putting some manual transmissions back into their cars! Hooray for stick shifts! They aren’t dead! Then we didn’t hear anything. Nothing, not a peep. No mules. No teasers. Nothing. However, we found some video that […] More »

I thought the last bastion of hope for the manual supercar were the British built cars. It was a sense of honor and pride. A sense of history and doing things properly. And it turned out to be just my imagination. Noble, British automaker of the M600, announced they would be introducing a paddle shift […] More »

Lamborghinis aren’t usually found on the racetrack. Sure you have the Super Trofeo series, and a few Gallardos racing in a series or two, but Lamborghini has never been a company about lap times. They’ve always gone for the brash and unashamed crowd that will pull up to a sleepy community and rev the balls […] More »

$250,000. Not a crazy amount of money, but still not chump change to say the least. You could buy a Morgan 3-Wheeler. Three Corvette Z06s. A Ferrari 458. A bunch of vacations across Europe. A trip to near space with Virgin Galactic. Or one seriously wrecked Bugatti Veyron. A few months ago a Veyron wrecked […] More »

You know that feeling when you just get your Fiesta backed into by some idiot not looking in their mirrors. It’s way worse when the car being backed into is a 1973 Porsche 911 Carrera RSR. That’s exactly what happened to comedian and Porsche crazy person Jerry Seinfeld the other day. The comedian was minding […] More »

Because it’s baby brother was getting all the attention from all the special auto journalists, and everyone with eyes, the Dodge Viper has been feeling left out of the fun. People were making fun of the super snake. They said hurtful things like, “oh you only have 600 horsepower, that’s so cute,” and “you aren’t […] More »

Usually we don’t cover smaller sports car manufacturers, we like to stay upscale, well Mazda might have just thrown a wrench into that. We all know and love the RX-7, we’re ok with the RX-8, but both of those have long since been discontinued with no speak of the rotary goodness we all fell in […] More »