This is one instance where driver experience could have made the difference The Dodge Challenger SRT Demon is an incredible piece of machinery — with its 840-hp 6.2-liter V8 and drag-racing focus, it should have no problem out-running its less-powerful stablemate, the Hellcat. But like most motorsports, drag racing isn’t as simple as having the faster car. You need to know…
T Minus Forty-Five Minutes—and Counting What should be a newsworthy moment—a road drive of the Tesla Model 3 Dual Motor Performance—is being sharply curtailed by the car’s PR handler, who insists that we have less than one hour to evaluate the vehicle before it needs to return. What, did she steal it from Elon’s parking…
Mercedes-AMG is now taking orders in Europe for the GT 4-Door Coupe, but it will cost you a pretty penny. Following its much-awaited world premiere in March at the Geneva Motor Show, the Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe (yeah, we’re not too happy with the name either) is going on sale in Europe. For obvious reasons, Deutschland is calling…
Downshifts sound like a V8-powered blender switched to rabid. As Dodge prepared to unleash its Challenger SRT Demon in early 2017, Texas tuner Hennessey Performance unveiled its Kryptonite, The Exorcist – a 1,000-horsepower Camaro ZL1 with unholy amounts of power that bordered on blasphemous. Sprints to 60 miles per hour (97 kilometers per hour) happen in less than three seconds while a quarter-mile…
It’s not all Prada sunglasses, spray tanning, and paisley dress shirts. Drop the top of the Lamborghini Huracán Performante Spyder and you’re left with vastness above and a black-framed windshield ahead. Seeing out isn’t difficult, but the world is suddenly framed and defined by the little black box ahead of you. It’s sort of like peering through…
It’s 755 horsepower versus 710. The Chevy Corvette – an iconic American sports car – has a history of punching far above its class when it comes to putting more powerful and more expensive supercars on notice. While pricing for the pinnacle of Corvette performance continues to increase – the 2019 ZR1 starts at $121,000 – it packs a serious amount of…
Wonder no more as this video shows how the supercars are hand-assembled at the McLaren Production Center in Woking. 3,340. That’s how many cars McLaren sold in 2017, representing an all-time record for the Woking-based marque. Approximately two-thirds of the sales were of models belonging to the Sports Series family, which recently received a new range topper…
Flying cars were almost a thing over 50 years ago.Universal Pictures It’s incredible to think about how far automobiles have come since the first motor car was released in 1885. So many innovations along the way have made cars safer, more reliable, and increasingly more convenient. The fact that we can use a remote from the…
Mean Mower V2 packs 190-hp sport bike engine Back in 2013, Honda set out to build the world’s fastest lawn mower. It did just that with the Mean Mower, a Honda HF2620 lawn tractor fitted with the engine from a Honda VTR Firestorm sport bike. Honda captured the lawn mower speed record in 2014 with a run of…
Civility meets brutality in the Mercedes-AMG S63 coupe. It is both Bruce Banner and the Incredible Hulk. Serene and savage, restrained and raucous, technologically adept and primitive in its ferocity, the S63 coupe is uncompromising. The titanic two-door successfully combines the decadence of a grand-touring car with the rapscallion heart of a sports car. And thanks to…
