Category: Road & Track

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.

New-old rivalries, startling product entrances and exits, six-figure pricing: What gives?

Will the new Benz-branded Mercedes Places Miami tower succeed? Or, will it literally sink into the sand, like recent proximal towers by Porsche and Bentley? And, since it’s being built in association with a developer with innumerable legal woes, will it sink the brand’s reputation as well?

At the turn of the 21st century, automotive design presented two distinct approaches for proceeding into the new millennium: one backwards looking, one controversially faceted. Did either win? Did we?

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