It may have taken McLaren around 20 years since the legendary F1 to create its second road car, the 12C, but it’s making up for lost time.  The new 650S splits the difference between the latter car – which came out only a few years ago – and the new, insanely powerful hybrid P1.  Other […] More »

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 »

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 »

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 »

McLaren has plans to make Ferrari’s 458 Speciale seem less specialé err… Special. They’lll be starting from a great place: the 12C.  Specifically, its twin-turbo V8 – tuned to around 650 horsepower – and carbon-fiber chassis.  Autocar also mentions the possibility of standard carbon-ceramic brake hardware. To improve its aerodynamics, the English firm will graft some features […] More »

I would like to thank Ferrari for turbocharging the new Ferrari California T.  The last time Ferrari used forced induction on a production car—the F40—I was too young to appreciate automobiles.  Now, I’m old enough to soak up every angle, curve and statistic. Speaking of angles and curves, the prancing horse’s new hardtop convertible was […] More »

One of the problems with hit products is that they leave you wanting more.  Another is that they make you wait… and wait… and wait for it. For instance, when I was a teenager, I loved “Die Hard: With a Vengeance.”  I was pumped when I heard the studio was thinking of making another John […] More »