The Italian carrozzeria is returning to form. “We have expanded a lot our coach-building services, especially during the past three years, following a higher demand from the market” says new CEO Paolo Dellachŕ in his first interview with the US press since taking the job in December.
We’ve always had big cars. So why do some look so HUGE? For the latest issue of Road & Track, I explore this subject with car designers, design instructors, and a UVA psychology professor who literally wrote the book on the subject of perception.
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Riley Schlick-Trask and her family are on a mission to get kids back into carbs.
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Why did Honda make the new Prelude? Because it brings the joy.
“The only kryptonite is with the driver or the tuner,” says Deliwala.
Despite not really understanding how an internal combustion engine works, I wrote about tuning one of the most legendary ones, the Toyota 2JZ, for the latest issue of Road & Track.
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Credit the fin de siecle Parisian avant garde, French aeronautical pioneering, Andre Citroen’s gambling problem, national geography and demography, and the petri dish of a relatively closed vehicular economy. But be happy it all exists.
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I drove the best Lamborghini Countach in the world. It still sucked.
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Mercedes-Benz is no stranger to using its signature three-pointed star logo to mark its products. But it is the Maybach sub-brand that has fully embraced this tired, if tireless, trend.
The compact pickup has returned to America and is poised to become the next big (little-ish) thing in a competitive and fragmenting category.
Current and forthcoming pedestrian-protection regulations emphasize softer edges, creating a challenge for Lamborghini. “Our design language is very sharp and very cutting edge,” Borkert says.