Photography by Alex Bernstein
All images provided by Toyota
After a leak last week, Toyota officially unveiled the all new Toyota Supra this morning. The new car was hinted at for more than 10 years. After having exited US shores in 1998 and ending Japanese production in 2002, the MKIV Supra left some big shoes to fill. More…
“Das Renn Treffen“ (German for “the race meet”) is an annual Porsche meet that claims to be “the greatest Porsche event in South Florida.” I might go further to say the greatest on the East Coast. “DRT” as it is also known, entered its fourth-year last month, taking place on February 11 down in South Miami, Florida. Organizers were expecting around 450 Porsches to attend. I don’t know what the exact number was, but it was huge. Several streets filled with Porsches both old and new. Here are a few that stood out to me during #DRT2018. (more…)
Text by Bryce Womeldurf
Photography courtesy of Aston Martin
Aston Martin has just released a striking new generation of their bread and butter sports car, the Vantage. Follow past the jump to read the details and see the new design. (More)
To celebrate Ferrari Friday, here are some images of mine from last weekend’s Cars and Coffee at Ferrari Tampa Bay. This is a Ferrari dealership in Palm Harbor, Florida which I’ve driven past many times over the years but haven’t been inside of, until now. (more…)
Porsche chose to unveil its 2018 Porsche 911 GT2 RS at E3 yesterday. Just after Microsoft revealed the new Xbox One X console, their smallest and most powerful gaming console to date, the new 2018 Porsche 911 GT2 RS was shown to the public for the first time. The GT2 RS is extreme in both appearance and performance, featuring the most powerful road going engine ever offered in a 911. As Dan Greenawalt of Turn 10 Studios mentioned at the reveal, this is the first time a flagship supercar has been debuted at E3.
Watch the full announcement video with more details on HOONART.com…
Back in 2013, not long after acquiring my own little red ’95 Miata, I attended and reported on a local Miatapalooza event, held in nearby Lakeland, Florida. Since then, I’ve gotten to meet event organizer Randy George and many of the other friendly Florida-based Mazda Miata enthusiasts, while repairing and tinkering with my own Miata along the way. This past Saturday, Miatapalooza returned to the Tampa Bay area, taking place at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida and I was not going to miss it.
After months and weeks of working on and planning this, I’m pleased to announce the launch of our new website, now live at hoonart.com. This new URL was part of my final project for my master’s degree. Most of my previous content as well as some curated content has been moved over there. Please follow us on the new site to stay up to date on our latest car show, motorsports, and project Miata coverage.
Text and photography by Bryce Womeldurf
Last month’s Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance was this author’s first attendance to the event and it was big… huge in fact. Due to a combination of trying to cover it all, preparation for publishing, not to mention attending the Sebring 12 and a Miata meet all in the same month; Amelia’s Cars & Coffee event ended up on the proverbial cutting room floor… until today. After the jump, we’ll revisit Cars & Coffee with a selection of photographs of the cars which were there. (more…)
Text and Photography by Bryce Womeldurf
On Saturday, March 19, 2016, Pipo Derani sealed up the second consecutive race win for 2016 in the No. 2 Tequila Patrón ESM Honda Ligier JS P2, winning the 64th annual 12 Hours of Sebring. The No. 4 Corvette won in the GTLM class after their sister car, the No. 3 Corvette collided with the No. 911 Porsche 911, taking them both out of contention and ending the race for the No. 911. The new Ferrari F88 GT3 claimed its first victory in the GTD class with the No. 63 Scuderia Corsa Ferrari 488. (more…)
Text and Photography by Bryce Womeldurf
With my Miata having been broken since the end of last September, I hadn’t made it out to a single meet since last year. With that finally sorted out thanks to Maztech, I attended a meet on Wednesday. Hosted by Tampa Bay Miatas and Spinnywhoosh Graphics, this was a “BBQ and Bayshore” meet at Kojak’s House of Ribs with a cruise down South Tampa’s Bayshore Blvd and ending on Davis Island. This was the kick-off event of 2016 for regularly scheduled meets with the bay area’s Miata enthusiasts. (more…)
Text and Photograph by Bryce Womeldurf
Despite being threatened by rain this year, the 21st annual Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance went off without a hitch. Fog and overcast conditions had been recurrent throughout the weekend, so the awards had to be given out earlier than planned. The Amelia is quite a large event with auctions, a Cars & Coffee (we’ll soon have photos from this to show), the Concours d’Elegance, and a host of dinners and seminars. Possibly because the event takes place on an island, classic and exotic cars were around every corner on the green and also on the streets outside the events. From the new McLaren 675LT and 570 to your left to a tiny Audi relic you’ve never seen or heard of to your right, it was all there including more Pegaso sports cars than you’re likely to see anywhere else in the world, not to mention a Phantom Corsair. Past the jump is a fresh collection of photographs from this past Sunday at the Concours. (more…)
Re-shared from Hooniverse
Text and Photograph by Bryce Womeldurf
Over the weekend, I attended the Amelia Island Cars & Coffee and their 21st annual Concours d’Elegance. While there on Saturday, my wife and I were waiting to be shuttled to our parking area, when a Lamborghini Miura drove by a few times. On one pass, I captured some photographs of it approaching on the straight and rounding the corner. Later that night, looking through the raw files, the driver’s head and face, for some reason, looked very familiar… When I zoomed the image up to full size, I recognized him immediately; the retired legendary Lamborghini chief test driver, Valentino Balboni. Can someone help me get my jaw up off the floor? (more…)
Text by Bryce Womeldurf
Photography by Bryce and Nina Womeldurf
With March arriving this week, the Rolex 24 is now behind us and we’re looking forward to the 12 Hours of Sebring. This seemed like a great opportunity for me to offer some advice for those wanting to photograph there and at similar events. When I first attended Sebring last year, I searched online for tips on what to bring to the track and how to go about watching the race in the best, most enjoyable way. My results were a bit hit and miss at the time, so I managed as well as I could from what I’d found. But this year, I decided to write a sort of unofficial guide for others seeking to attend the race. (more…)
NASCAR is a form of motorsport that often gets a bad rap from some car enthusiasts. It’s easy to dismiss it as a dull overload of a marketing ad blitz, with cars simply running in circles (at Daytona, they refer to it as a tri-oval). I’d never really followed NASCAR closely and hadn’t watched a race on TV since Dale Earnhardt Sr. was alive, but I was curious. Why is it so popular? Perhaps something wasn’t translating well from first hand experience to broadcast. Time to open the mind and step out of my comfort zone, so I decided to venture out for my first NASCAR experience, the 2016 Daytona 500. (more…)
Text and photography by Bryce Womeldurf
When we last left off with our little red friend, Roadster, the Miata, it had run for two years with a slightly rough idle surge that had suddenly gotten much worse to the point of stalling at the end of September. After weeks of research, I was convinced that I knew why it was stumbling to idle correctly and why power was down so significantly. The idle was rough and the car felt like it hit a head wind at 4000rpm where it would struggle to reach 5500rpm and would then refuse to go any higher. What seemed like choking, I reasoned, could only be caused by a clogged catalytic converter (“cat” for short). There were no apparent vacuum leaks, and the spark plugs and ignition wires were practically new, as was the timing belt, which I had installed only a few months prior. All of the inexpensive alternative solutions seemed to be ruled out, so it seemed that it could only be the cat. Being a little thin on cash when these symptoms appeared, I examined my options. The search for the right cat had begun. (more…)
Text and Photography by Bryce Womeldurf
It all started as a quick decision. The Wednesday before the annual 24 hour race in Daytona, I decided to attend the Rolex24. This year’s race would be the racing debut of the new Ford GT supercar, and there was no way I was going to miss the opportunity to capture some photographs of it. Little did I know it would be such an exciting and unusual race. (more…)
Text and Photography by Bryce Womeldurf
This morning, we’re waking to the news that Toyota has rung the Scion brand’s death knell, as Toyota is reporting in a press release. But don’t be too worried about seeing the few interesting models, such as the FR-S, die on the vine just yet though. They are also reporting that existing Scion models will be phased into the Toyota lineup. Jim Lentz, CEO of Toyota Motor North America and founding vice president of Scion, put a positive spin on the news when he was quoted as saying “This isn’t a step backward for Scion; it’s a leap forward for Toyota. Scion has allowed us to fast track ideas that would have been challenging to test through the Toyota network.” (more…)
Re-shared from Hooniverse
Text and Photography by Bryce Womeldurf
Do you ever miss an old friend who you haven’t spoken to in a long time? That’s how I’ve felt about my Miata for the past two months. Every time I drive that car, my hands have a wonderful chat with the steering wheel and shifter. I can’t help but smile as pedal meets floor. For weeks, we had a blast together flying across the Howard Frankland Bridge to St Petersburg, Florida, for Monday night classes; but then one night, my old friend developed a cough. (more…)
This is without a doubt the best thing I have read all week, so I decided to re-share it here. Today on The Drive Zach Bowman recounts in immersive and poetic detail how he and Alex Roy drove from Los Angeles to New York in a Morgan 3-Wheeler. In case you’re unfamiliar with the 3-Wheeler, it’s a 3-wheeled kit car with a wooden frame. A 3-wheeled kit car that’s as raw and fun as they come. This is equal parts hilarious, miserable, and awesome. Hat tip to Kamil Kaluski. Enjoy the read. (more…)
Re-shared from Hooniverse
Text and Photography by Bryce Womeldurf
Many of you can probably remember when Volkswagen was known more for making small, cheap, ubiquitous cars with character, known as the Beetle, than they were for a diesel emissions controversy. Last Saturday, I was able to travel back to those good old days at the Florida Bug Jam, a family-friendly judged classic Volkswagen car show with a poker run and some dirt track hooning. I don’t think I spotted a single water-cooled VW while I was there, besides the one that I arrived in. (more…)
Text by Bryce Womeldurf, images courtesy of Mazda.
For the past few years, it’s seemed that we’d never again see a rotary-powered sports car, not from Mazda, not from anyone. I hadn’t even seen one in Pirelli World Challenge at the local St Petersburg city course since the 2012 Honda Grand Prix. The days of that wonderful banshee wail and accompanying stinky yet aromatic exhaust, it seemed, were over. But then, at the Tokyo Motor Show on Tuesday, Mazda unveiled this, the RX-VISION Rotary concept. (more…)
Text and Photography by Bryce Womeldurf.
When it came to light last Friday that Volkswagen had been circumventing U.S. environmental standards through a software cheat, I didn’t really think there was much of a story there for me to cover. HoonArt tends to focus on sports cars and issues related to them, which doesn’t typically have much to do with emissions control or fuel economy. Despite living in a state that hasn’t tested emissions since the ’90s, I keep my vehicles emissions compliant, but that’s usually about as far as it goes. That was, until I started thinking about what the potential fines could mean for Volkswagen… (more…)
Video by The Smoking Tire
This new video by Matt Farah from the Smoking Tire is probably filled with more laughter than any single One Take video we’ve seen from him so far. In the video, he takes Alex Roy’s Morgan 3-Wheeler up and down Angeles Crest Highway in one take (hence the name) giving his impressions of the Morgan along the way. As noted in the video, this car has a lot of drawbacks including the need for a helmet, it having exhaust pipes that can burn you, a huge lack of practicality, among many others. Despite all of this, Matt Farah says that it makes him feel like the Great Gatsby and that he thinks it’s the greatest car ever made. He can’t seem to say enough good things about it. Push play and let the laughter begin.
Video by Jay Leno’s Garage
In this video, Jay checks out two of Emory Motorsports’ custom 356 Porsches. This is the shop which originated the term “outlaw Porsche.” Rod Emory goes through in detail what makes a Porsche an Emory Outlaw versus an Emory Special. Emory has taken various details from factory race cars of the past and applied them to street cars. There are a slew of subtle details that transform each car. Many are not immediately noticeable unless you’ve been studying vintage Porsches for some time. (more…)
Text by Bryce Womeldurf
When I heard that an acquaintance of mine was considering getting rid of his Corvair, as much as I hope he ends up keeping it, I couldn’t help but share this sweet and well priced Chevy Corvair. It’s a funny and well written ad, so there’s not much for me to add here. The seller starts off with “This car is pretty sweet. It’s got no A/C, wipers run on fast only, and the doors don’t lock. It’s a bit rusty like the Sahara is a bit hot. But it turns heads and drops panties.” It only gets better from there. Hat tip to Chris, who found this on the local Craigslist. (more…)
Re-shared from Hooniverse. Text and Photography by Greg Kachadurian.
As far as BMWs go, this is about as rare as it gets. What you’re looking at here (and what I’m about to cover in a thick layer of Roundel-shaped dribble) is a 2001 BMW (E46) M3 GTR road car. That “GTR” and “road car” designation is what’s important here because only six cars were ever built this way from the factory, three of which are still in road-worthy condition but almost never seen.
So when an unabashed BMW fan (just don’t mention the 2 Series Active Tourer for the love of god) stumbles upon one of those three cars sitting unattended after the conclusion of last weekend’s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at Laguna Seca, what does he do? (more…)
Video by The Smoking Tire
This is a bit of a different take on Matt Farah’s One Take series on The Smoking Tire. Instead of driving a tuned car on one of California’s scenic driving roads, he’s instead driving this “K-swapped” Mazda Miata on Gingerman Raceway, during the GRIDLIFE Motorsports & Music Festival. Known as a K-Miata, it’s had its factory Mazda BP 4-cylinder removed and replaced with a combination of Honda K24 (TSX engine) bottom end, with K20 head (from the RSX Type-S), providing the Miata with 250 naturally aspirated horsepower and a quite tall 8,200rpm redline.
Amazon just announced this morning that former Top Gear presentersJames May, Jeremy Clarkson, andRichard Hammond will appear in a new car show, exclusively available on Amazon Prime. It is unknown whether this new show has a name at this time, however the new show will be available in 2016. In the past, with Top Gear on BBC, their new episodes were shown in Europe and then later released elsewhere. With this new show being on Amazon Prime, American audiences will be capable of watching the show as soon as it’s released.
Re-shared from Evo on YouTube.
Feeling groggy this Monday? Well, push play and get ready to enjoy the chill up your back, as the sound of the rotary buzz and brap flows from your speakers. In this new video, Evo reviews the RX-7 racecar which won the Spa 24 Hours in 1981.
Re-shared from Hooniverse, Text and Photography by Bryce Womeldurf
Despite how eventful this year has been, some of the photos I’ve taken have not progressed to being sorted and edited until very recently. One of these events, which I attended back in January, was a local car show called the 2015 Series Open Car & Truck Show at “The Shops at Wiregrass,” a small outdoor mall in the tiny nearby town of Wesley Chapel, Florida. Despite this being the first I’d heard of this car show series, there was a pretty nice showing of cars with a good variety, which I’ve collected to share with you after the jump. (more…)
Text and photography by Bryce Womeldurf
When the original Mazda Miata was being designed, it was created with the idea of the “horse and rider being one” or “Jinba ittai” in Japanese, where the car was made around the premise that it would handle as though it were part of you. That idea has been pervaded up through the new 4th generation Miata, which will soon be offered in 2016. Last night, I decided to take a little joy ride in my NA Miata, as I often do in the evenings, but this time I decided to take my little dachshund, Kimi, with me to share in the top down experience (she’s named after our favorite F1 driver, Kimi Räikkönen). I moved her little doggy car seat from the Volkswagen to the Miata and strapped her in with her pink harness, and off we went. She was a little nervous at first, trying to figure out which way to face, but not long into the drive, she was perched up next to the door, trying to smell the air as we zoom zoomed through the back roads near home, sneezing as the wind went up her nose. I wonder, if we do this regularly, if she’ll learn the words “do you want to go for a drive, Kimi?”
[As a quick disclaimer, this photo was taken at low speeds while I had my eyes and attention on the road and with my hand on the wheel (which is why it’s a little blurry). I wanted to preserve the memory, so without looking at the screen, I took a few photos and this one came out well enough that I decided to share it. I was also very careful to have her strapped into her seat which straps to the passenger seat, so that she would be safe. If you’re going to take your dog with you, keep them safe.]
From us at HoonArt, we hope you have a happy 4th of July. Have fun and be safe out there.
Photo Copyright 2015 HOONART/Bryce Womeldurf
Re-shared from /DRIVE
The debate seems as old as time, that being whether it is better to build up the light yet sometimes maintenance-intensive rotary engine, or to swap it out for the cheap, reliable and more fuel efficient V8 power from a Corvette or Mustang. In this video, Matt Farah compares the sweet singing buzzy turbo rotary with one which has undergone the popular GM LS V8 swap. (more…)
Image source: Imgur
If you were watching the Goodwood Festival of Speed yesterday, you may have seen the GT350R do a little shimmy on it’s way up the hill. Friend Tyler Brand had a funny idea of adding it to an existing meme, and our friend Dan Sabol put it together, and behold, a new version of the “Shaq vs cat” meme is born. Dan has a gift for these, previously creating the F1-inspired Alonso gif.
Re-shared from Jalopnik, Text by Blake Z. Rong.
Old Japanese cars carving the canyons? Sign me up. I’m so stoked for the Touge California and I wasn’t even there. However, my buddy Blake Z. Rong was there for this new road rally and has a new article about the event today on Jalopnik. Check out the article after the jump, where he examines the origin of Touge California and features some of the cars that showed up for the event. (more…)
[This is a bit of an old article, from 2008, but I stumbled upon it weeks ago and have been wanting to re-share it on a Sunday ever since. It’s got a great map, planned by Jonny Lieberman (at one time a contributor to Hooniverse and now of MotorTrend) who happens to be a local to the area. If you’re in California on a Sunday, like today, I highly recommend you pick up the keys and go. I’ve driven on most of the roads described here and will hopefully get back there some day soon and this time will hopefully pack the Dramamine. I’m a flat lander, so I nearly got sick last time, but still loved it. What a drive! -Ed]
Re-shared from Autoblog, Text and Photography by Jonny Lieberman
When most Americans think of Malibu, they probably think of fires and landslides. And they’re correct — there’s lots of those. They might also know about the fantastic roads that crisscross the seaside city and the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area that separates the beach bum town of about 12,000 from the Valley. Like Mulholland Highway. But what most people fail to realize is how epically weird the area and its inhabitants are. Example: King Camp Gillette bought 588 acres right in the heart of today’s drive just before the Great Depression. Not only did Gillette invent the razor you shaved with this morning, but he believed that all Americans should live in a single city called Metropolis with power provided by Niagra Falls. No, really. Moreover, every corporation would be headed up and run by a single government official. After Teddy Roosevelt declined Gillette’s suggestion, King G moved to Malibu Canyon. When he died, Clarence Brown got the ranch, then Bob Hope took over the property and gave it over to the Catholic Church, which ran a seminary on the property for 25 years. This is before Elizabeth Claire Prophet got her hands on the land in 1978. Who? Her and her late husband founded one of the original crack-pot new age California religions, TSL. And this is just one plot of land. It gets better… (more…)
Re-shared from Road & Track, Text and Photography by Chris Cantle.
Shoes come between you and your car. That’s unavoidable. Good ones feel like they don’t. Purpose-made driving shoes with all manner of pretense and peacockishness have attempted to fill that space, with varying results. For us though? We stick to a few proven shoes that’ll go wherever wherever our off-track inclinations take us, but never get in the way. (more…)
Video by /DRIVE, Text by Bryce Womeldurf
This episode of /TUNED, aired last season on the /DRIVE+ channel, featuring a comparison between two friends’ approaches to tuning the NSX; one keeping things naturally aspirated and the other going with the approach of bolting on power, the supercharger. They both seem like very well sorted examples. If there’s one thing I would nit pick, it would be the conversion of the NA1 pop-ups to the later NA2 sealed beam headlamps. If it were me, I’d be more likely to go the other direction and convert the newer NA2 option back to pop-up headlights. Save the pop-ups!
Each approach seems to be a blast on track. The only correction to the video, which a friend noted, is that the NSX did not come with an Accord V6. The Accord did not have a V6 option when the NSX debuted and when it eventually did have a V6, it was a J-series engine rather than the NSX’s C-series engine. I really identify with the owner of the black NSX saying that he really just loves to drive it and that “you just wanna get in it, you just wanna turn the key, just want to drive it. It’s finally gotten to the point where it is reliable, ready to go, out of the box.” I have a similar attitude about my Miata lately since the hose change was completed and I can finally put some miles on it without worrying too much about anything breaking down or getting too hot. (more…)
Video by Jay Leno’s Garage
It’s fun to look back through some of Mr Leno’s past videos to see some of the lust-worthy rides he owns and has driven on his show, and that’s why I sometimes pick through some of the older stuff to feature it here on HoonArt. In this one from 2014, he shows off his beautiful De Tomaso Pantera. I’ve probably mentioned it on here before, but in case I didn’t, I grew up in the age of the Italian wedge-shaped supercars and this is a shining example of what could both be considered an Italian as well as American supercar. Designed and build in Italy by an American ex-patriot, it was powered by the American Ford 351 Cleveland engine. (more…)
With today’s E3 showing of the new trailer for Forza Motorsport 6, for the Xbox One, and the reveal that Forza 6 will debut on September 15, 2015, I decided to do some digging to seek out more information about the next edition of my favorite virtual racing franchise. Will the Japan tracks be recreated? Will weather and time of day finally have more than one option? Will the annoying rev-hang from Horizon 2 not be a problem in the main Forza game? Will drivatars finally play nice? What other updates are we in store for? Some of that was answered by the trailer, but this article from Ars Technica seems to delve a little deeper into what Forza developer Turn10 has been up to lately.
Re-shared from Ars-Technica, Text after the jump by Jonathan M. Gitlin, Images by Turn 10
Text by Bryce Womeldurf
Over the weekend, Porsche and Audi fought it out all night in the annual 24 Hours of Le Mans. Porsche would claim victory with the top two spots of the podium going to Porsche teams. I was rooting for them, as I’m admittedly more of a Porsche fan than an Audi fan, and Audi has been the dominant team to beat for the past few years. I had the race streaming on the tablet in the garage on Saturday, while I fought with replacing 20-year old Miata trim, with pieces from a slightly newer example. More on that later. This race marks the 83rd running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and for Porsche it is the first outright win since 1998, in the 919 Hybrid Le Mans Prototype, a car which was just introduced last year.
Video by Owen Craft on Vimeo. Text by Bryce Womeldurf
At this year’s 12 Hours of Sebring, I noticed a very fitting sticker on the side of an E30 BMW 3-series that said “Respect Your Elders.” I didn’t know it at the time, but it was the title of a documentary about the E30 generation of the BMW 3-series coupe and sedan. Recently, I stumbled upon the film online and have it embedded it here. The film features historical perspectives on the cars as well as owner interviews and past and present racing footage. From the perspective of a Mazda Miata fan, the owner interviews make the E30 almost seems like a Pacific Northwest alternative to the Miata, for places that need a little more insulation from the elements. Or, to respect my elders, perhaps it is the Miata that is the warm weather alternative to the E30. Regardless, take a look at this insightful documentary. (more…)
Re-shared from MotoIQ,
Text after the jump by M-P Spierer,
Photography by Jeff Naeyaert
If you’ve never heard of MotoIQ, you should re-evaluate your life choices… or maybe you were just born a little too late to know of the late great Sport Compact Car. You can still catch some of that old SCC magic over at MotoIQ and here they put the 787B under their “nerd’s eye view.” (more…)
Video by The Smoking Tire
Matt Farah’s “One Take” reviews are always fun to watch. In this video series, he drives a viewer’s car and does a review video of it in one take. Sometimes these are modified cars, sometimes not. This particular review caught my eye, because it features both a road and a car which I’ve driven in the past, although granted it was at different times in my case. The time I drove Stunt Road was in a 3/4 ton Cummins turbo diesel-powered Ram pickup truck. Not exactly a Ferrari F430, but it was equipped with a manual, and that, along with the “go anywhere” suspension and frequent altitude changes, kept things interesting. But enough of my rambling and reminiscing, check out this outstanding combination of one of the last manual transmission-equipped Ferraris with one of California’s wonderful driving roads. (more…)
Video by GT Channel
Despite the current R35 Nissan GTR being a bit long in the tooth these days, nearing the end of it’s production cycle, it’s nice to see that people are still modifying the R32 GT-R for time attack competition. This R32 was built to break the lap record at Suzuka Circuit. The builder, Sakakibara, of tuning house Wacky Mate, claims an estimate of 800hp from the stroked 2.8 liter straight-six engine.
Video by Evo magazine
Jethro Bovingdon, of Evo magazine, tests Lamborghini’s latest version of the Aventador, the Aventador SV, which recently posted a lap time of 6:59 on the Nürburgring. The startup revs at 1:37 are especially nice. (more…)
HoonArt might be all about sports cars, but this author’s love for top-down motoring began at an early age, riding in Dad’s CJ-7. These old commercials are hilarious. and if you watch the first one in this collection that Murilee Martin brought together, the black Laredo toward the end looks just like Dad’s.
Re-shared from Autoweek, Text after the jump by Murilee Martin
Re-shared from Hooniverse,
Text by Antti Kautonen,
Videos by FinalGearTV
I’m sure you read the recent reader submissions depicting a Slovenian BMW E30 touring on twisty Balkan coastal roads. Now, you can see and hear the white wagon in action, with FinalGear’s video crew having created two short films about that particular, recently restored car.
The straight six sounds particularly good under a dedicated owner‘s care. (more…)
Re-shared from Road & Track,
Text by Jack Baruth,
Photography by Evan Klein
I was a lime-green streak on the fastest road in America, a 10-cylinder terror in an origami wedge with everything from rusty minivans to customized diesel pickups swaying in my wake, when I decided to really break the law.
In a free-market attempt to attract toll traffic, Texas State Highway 130 permits paying customers to drive 85 mph. The problem is that, at 85, a Lamborghini Huracán is effectively asleep, drowsing along in seventh gear and returning nearly 20 mpg. So you step it up a bit, and nothing changes except the rate at which traffic recedes in the mirror. Which, by the way, is perfectly usable, unlike the one in the Lamborghini Countach.
Lamborghini sold 14,022 examples of the Huracán’s immediate predecessor, the Gallardo, making it the most popular Lamborghini in history, accounting for about half of the company’s sales since its founding in 1963. Yet it’s the 30-year-old Countach that continues to define the brand for the man on the street. In particular, there’s that opening scene of The Cannonball Run—you know, the part where a Countach comes to a tire-smoking halt next to a Speed Limit 55 sign and the passenger jumps out, crossing out the “55” with spray paint. (more…)
Video by Harry’s garage
If you haven’t been watching Harry Metcalfe’s, you’re really missing out on something special. Previously, he’s reviewed his classic cars, from the legendary best version of Lamborghini’s Countach, the 5000QV to the Ferrari Testarossa, to this 1989 911 turbo, rounding out the ’80s supercars. Sit back, press play, and take a relaxing drive with Harry.
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