This has to be one of the coolest and the LOUDEST military aviation photos in history. No less than three Tomcats and three Phantoms are headed by an SR-71 Blackbird as they pour on the coals during a high-speed, low-level flyby over NAWS China Lake. The circumstances of how this shot came to be remain a mystery, but I would like to thank it happened because it simply had to.
On Friday I finally got to do something I had been wanting to do for a long time: to visit the Toyota Museum, located on the edge of Toyota (the city), near Nagoya, the 3rd biggest city in Japan.
IndyCar has been sent scrambling for a make-up race after their season opener at Brasília was unexpectedly called off , and it sounds like Circuit of the Americas may be in the running. Excellent.
[MILTON KEYNES, ENGLAND - JANUARY 27: Daniel Ricciardo of Australia and Infiniti Red Bull Racing sledges down the slalom slope with members of the media during the Red Bull Racing - Meet the 2015 Drivers event at the Milton Keynes SnoZone on January 27, 2015 in Milton Keynes, England.]
If you’ve been around the automotive journalism long enough (and by long enough, I mean like three months in total), you’ll begin to realize that a lot of press vehicles you drive aren’t indicative of what most people actually buy. Most test vehicles have five figures worth of options, with features that at most, an […]
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Mustache-Benz boss Dr. Dieter Zetsche has been quoted saying a Mercedes-Maybach SUV is "most likely!" Logic dictates that would basically be a GL, soon to be rebadged as GLS, with a bit of a body stretch and a private-jet interior. Subtle, quick, and decadently comfortable.
The feds are recalling another 2.12 million vehicles in the never-ending airbag disaster after it was discovered that the fix originally offered wasn't good enough and airbags were blowing up in the absence of a crash. About half are in a different Takata recall and thus could send shrapnel into the faces of people in these vehicles.
Ever since learning to drive stick on my 1983 BMW 320i, all of my cars have had manual transmissions, except for a Grand Caravan and my ex-cop car that weren't available with them. I'm a strong supporter of the "Save the Stick" movement. Changing your own gears is the pedal dance of the enthusiast, an art form of automotive prowess and control. But recently I've come to realize that there is a legitimate place in the world for transmissions that shift their own gears – dual clutch, slushbox automatic, even CVT.
After selling in virtually identical numbers in 2013, light truck sales in the United States overtook car sales in 2014 for the first time since 2011. Light trucks, a category which encompasses everything from pickups and body-on-frame SUVs to minivans and commercial vans to SUVs and very car-like crossovers, accounted for 52% of U.S. new […]
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Okay, so it's not actually an EK9 wagon, although that would be really, really cool. This is in fact a marriage of two different Honda vehicles which share parts: a Civic and an Orthia. And despite this being JDM as hell, this actually isn't Japan. It's Hong Kong. Still totally badass. EK WAGON, GUYS. GET EXCITED.
One of the best and worst parts of Top Gear is the power lap of the test track. Sometimes it's great, and sometimes all you want to do is watch the lap in its purest form, in unadulterated silence. And the Stig, being the Stig, can deliver that for you.
The shipyard in Azerbaijan already produces ships.
— Ilham Aliyev (@presidentaz) January 13, 2015
Here's the roadmap for Russia's T-50 PAK-FA, the fifth generation multirole fighter that will get the designation Su-50once it gets into production on January 2016. The nemesis to the American F-22 Raptor and F-35 Lightning II will fly with the flag of Russia, South Korea, India and Iran. Here's the timeline.
We caught our first glimpse of an unknown Tesla prototype testing at the old Alameda Naval base yesterday, and now we've got video of what could be the Model 3 or the Model X stretching its legs and squealing its tires.
Recently, we posted about great cars that no one was buying . At number four was the Chevy SS, with a 415hp LS3 V8, rear-wheel drive and mag-ride suspension; it is a modern day E39 M5. The reason for such lackluster sales isn't because people don't want them, it is because they can't have the one they want.
