Tesla Motors shut down its assembly line for the next two weeks. This isn’t due to some unsafe part like GM, or anything to do with the crash that split the car in two a few weeks back. No, Tesla is expanding and the company’s assembly line needs to be retooled to start the building […] More »

The new Ferrari California makes 200 more foot pounds of torque than its predecessor. 200. That’s like adding another engine to the old one. This is why turbos are good. People might complain about Ferrari turning to turbos to make more power, safe fuel, and lower emissions. Yes, what idiots they are. The new California’s […] More »

Ferrari is known for building staggeringly fast, red cars that only the wealthy few can afford.  Their vehicles’ interiors are lined in creamy, painstakingly crafted leather. The Italian speed machines are also dense with sophisticated technology, such as magnetorheological suspensions, side slip angle control, electronic differentials and dual-clutch transmissions.  It makes perfect sense to take […] More »

Ferrari says the blown 3.9-liter V8 in the California T is the “first turbocharged engine with zero turbo lag.”  You would think that a company that makes championship-caliber Formula 1 racers, famously red sports cars that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars would be soft-spoken and modest.  Go figure. Automakers and tuners have been turbocharging […] More »

There are “chick” cars, “green” cars, practical cars…and then there are “bad boy” cars.  Apparently, that’s what Lamborghini makes.  The Sant’Agata supercar maker’s former chief operating officer, Michael Lock, recently said, “Lamborghinis are associated with socially illicit behavior.” Leonardo DiCaprio’s performance in “The Wolf of Wall Street” certainly hasn’t helped that perception. Lock also said […] More »

The Rules of “Thrash, Own, Crush”: You’re given a choice of three cars, and you must decide which of each you would prefer to thrash, own, or crush. If you’re thinking this is the automotive version of “eff-marry-kill”, I commend your precise inference, Watson. How would you have your fun in the Sun with this […] More »

A quick little history lesson here. It’s been almost 30 years since the last time Ferrari dug into their forced induction parts bin and pulled out their scrollers (the F40 in 1987). We’d seen the official teasers of a front-engined one off, but here we have all the combined rumors in its full glory. The […] More »