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As the restrictions on MPG and CO2 evolve (AKA tighten), sports car manufacturers are faced with the difficult problem of adhering to the laws while keeping people like you and I happy. When F1 announced the engines would lose 2 cylinders and gain a turbo, many people lit their torches or turned their backs, but […] More »
Stickers on a car don’t add horsepower, but the letters “GTS” do. Fifteen, to be exact. Porsche’s Boxster GTS and Cayman GTS sports cars make 330 and 340 hp, respectively, from their 3.4-liter flat-6s. Torque is up to 273 lb-ft in the former and 280 lb-ft in the latter. With that bump in output coupled […] More »
Say you’re Coca-Cola a few decades ago. You only sell one product: regular Coke. Sales are great, you got the taste just right, life is good. Then along came Diet Coke. Zero calories, yes, but the flavor trailed behind the original by a wide margin so there’s no concern that Diet Coke will become the […] More »
Lets say you pounded a handle of tequila with a blue crystal meth chaser and decided to shoot a car review. That’s kinda what one of the Regular Car Reviews reviews’ feels like. If that sounds fun and more than a little dangerous, you’re not wrong. It’s also very, very entertaining. In this one, they […] More »
Since late August we’ve been posting Edmunds videos of the C7 Corvette battling its enemies, foreign and domestic, on the Streets of Willow Springs. For a look in the rearview mirror at how the Corvette Stingray faired individually against its rivals, click the links below. Corvette versus SRT Viper Corvette versus Nissan GT-R Corvette versus Porsche 911 […] More »
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 »
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