Monday Afternoon Crew Chief: NASCAR Muddies the Waters (Again)

Monday Afternoon Crew C...

I don’t know if you saw Carl Edwards punting Brad Keselowski off at the end of the Atlanta race yesterday, but it was both a dumb move and an exceedingly dangerous one. Keselowski was lucky his car landed on the passenger, rather the driver’s, side and NASCAR was lucky the...
Carlsson C25: For When Way Overpowered Just Isn’t Enough

Carlsson C25: For When ...

Carlsson Autotechnik is one of the smaller names in German performance tuning, and with ambitions such as these, it’s easy to see why. The German company used the Geneva auto show to unveil its C25, a nearly $600,000 creation whose exclusivity it will maintain by selling only one in...
2009 Infiniti FX50S: Alphabet Soup [Long-Term Logbook]

2009 Infiniti FX50S: Al...

Infiniti, like almost every other carmaker, uses an array of acronyms for short-hand reference to its many safety and driver-assistance systems. And our long-term Infiniti FX50S employs nearly all of them: LDW (lane-departure warning), LDP (lane-departure prevention), IBA (intelligent...
Commenter Of The Day: Loller Coaster Edition [Commenter Of The Day]

Commenter Of The Day: L...

When I was little, I spent a great deal of time worrying about things that might get me when I wasn’t looking. I’d lie in bed and worry about death, or meteors falling from the sky, or that kid that I purposely hit in the head with my lunch box in kindergarten. (He was asking...
How Quick Is A Roller Coaster? [Roller Coasters]

How Quick Is A Roller C...

Car and Driver took a road trip to Cedar Point and brought their Racelogic Vbox testing rig. How quick is a roller coaster? Watch the video and find out. (Hint: Below 60 mph, it’ll smoke almost anything on wheels.) Just for reference, this is what C/D’s video-capable Vbox...
Yippee-Ki-Yay: A Music Video With Bruce Willis, An El Camino, And Some Guns [Found On YouTube]

Yippee-Ki-Yay: A Music ...

This is a still from the video for the Gorillaz song “Stylo.” It contains many things; almost all of them are good. To paraphrase the infamous John McClane , “Now I have a machine gun an El Camino . Ho ho ho.” Inventory time! In this charmingly creepy (or is that...
Parking the Infiniti FX50S? Use the Around-View Monitor [Long-Term Logbook]

Parking the Infiniti FX...

I’m not as huge a fan of the long-term Infiniti FX50S as our man Mike Sutton , but I don’t have much against the pearly white crossover. It’s fast, it looks great, and the thing gobbles highway miles like Pac-Man gobbles Pac-Meth. Among my only gripes: Parking the beast...
Honda 3-RC Unveiled

Honda 3-RC Unveiled...

I really wonder what’s the big deal with one-seater “personal mobility” vehicles. The Segway was an interesting concept but it still failed to revolutionize the way we travel. Toyota came out with the iUnit and the iSwing. Now Honda has come up with the 3R-C which will...
Driver Saved From Sinking Corvette After 150 MPH Intoxicated Joyride [Car Crashes]

Driver Saved From Sinki...

The driver of this Corvette was allegedly intoxicated, swerving across the road and speeding up to 150 MPH before crashing into an Infiniti G35 and tumbling deep into California’s Boisa Chica Wetlands. Both the driver of the speeding Corvette, erroneously identified as a ZR1 by the...
Friday Morning Crew Chief: The IRL Clutches at Straws (Again)

Friday Morning Crew Chi...

At a somewhat sleepy Chicago show, the biggest news for enthusiasts was the unveiling of a 2012 IndyCar Series concept on the Bridgestone stand. The contract for making the chassis that race in the Indy Racing League is up for renewal and there are bids from Swift, current supplier...

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