Author: Bradley Brownell
Screenshot: Donut Media“Initial D” is considered one of those pieces of media that transcends automotive enthusiasm and has helped encourage a brand new generation of automotive folks. I had already descended fully into the madness of gasoline, high-revs, and tire smoke by the point the show debuted within the U.S. in 2002, however it actually added some octane to the high-rev engine in my heart. Perhaps you’ve dreamed about driving Mount Akina, or the show inspired you to purchase and construct considered one of the cars featured, but when you were so inclined the show probably infected your system and…
Image: PorscheIt took Porsche a 12 months and five months to provide you with a fix to the recall and stop-drive order it issued for each single Carrera GT built. The suspension failure–related recall addressed a selected propensity for control arms to corrode and fail, which may lead to a crash. When you are one among the oldsters who own a Carrera GT, be sure you get booked in for service, because Porsche is able to fix the difficulty. 2024 Porsche 718 Boxster GTS 4.0: Perfection On 4 WheelsNow that Porsche has a fix — and because it took so…
Image: Marko Law, PLLCTwo elementary school students were seriously injured while on a field trip to Ford’s test track in Auburn Hills, Michigan. An indication driver, in what appears to be a Mustang, lost control of the machine and ran headlong into the guardrail behind which the classroom of scholars had gathered. Elijah Gibson, eight on the time, and Lavell McGee, ten on the time, were hospitalized consequently of the July 2023 crash. A lawsuit in Oakland County Circuit Court names Continental Automotive Systems (the track owners), Ford Motor Co., the Detroit Area Pre-College Engineering Program, and the driving force…
Image: ToyotaToyota Gazoo Racing is committing to its long-running FIA WEC and Le Mans 24 hypercar program, as much as and including constructing a next-generation automobile powered by hydrogen. The series had previously announced that it could allow hydrogen-powered vehicles to compete within the top flight Hypercar category, where Toyota currently races the gasoline-electric hybrid GR010, for the 2026 season, but that has now been postponed to 2028. During this 12 months’s Le Mans festivities back in June, Toyota unveiled a preliminary take a look at the GR H2, the hydrogen-powered automobile it plans to run, shown here. Jalopinions |…
Screenshot: Vin_ tra on YouTubeFor twenty years Porsche’s 911 GT3 RS models have been held as a benchmark in relation to street-legal versions of racing cars. Each generation one way or the other finds a approach to go faster around a race track. Aero, power, tires, suspension, and tech adjustments keep bringing probably the most hardcore version of the 911 closer to trace superiority. Every new edition finds serious track-proven lap time improvements, but is it all the time a greater automotive? Andy Got a Brand-Recent Porsche 911 (Made from Legos)YouTube’s Vin Anatra recently took a visit to the Porsche…
Image: Goodwood Road & RacingThe annual Goodwood Members’ Meeting is certainly one of the best vintage events on the earth, drawing a few of the biggest talent and iron on 4 wheels to 1 place. This yr’s Graham Hill Trophy race featuring early-Nineteen Sixties GT racing cars was among the many rowdier events on the schedule, because it was packed to the gills with big engine Cobras, Jaguar E-types, and Corvettes, with a couple of bantam-weight Porsches and Lotuses thrown in to maintain things vigorous. One in all those Porsches, a 904 driven by Olly Bryant, was an absolute smasher.…
Porsche’s Pepita houndstooth pattern cloth has an extended history of cosseting the backsides of P-car drivers, having been utilized in its interiors for the reason that mid-Nineteen Sixties. The pattern is inextricably linked to Porsche history. Likewise, furniture design owes much of what it’s today to Ray and Charles Eames. Back in 1948, the Eames brothers developed a fiberglass chair that has turn into an icon in its own right. Porsche also began its life in 1948. It’s a tenuous link for a collaboration, but Porsche is making the link anyway, and the resulting chairs are pretty rattling cool. Reggie Watts…
Image: Facebook MarketplaceThe entire van life craze continues to be going strong, but should you aren’t the sort of one who can just go buy a brand recent Mercedes Sprinter and drop one other fifty grand modifying it with all of the gubbins that you must live in it, there are much inexpensive options available to you. When you’re in search of the authentic livin’-on-the-road experience, you’d be hard pressed to seek out a more real article than this 1977 Dodge B300 Quest. And as a substitute of a pair hundred thousand dollars and a cramped interior, this bad boy…
Image: Red Bull RacingThe ridiculously talented combination of Max Verstappen driving a automotive designed by Adrian Newey must be stopped, man. They can’t just keep getting away with this. Having secured the 2023 championship with probably the most dominant season in F1 history, these psychopaths aren’t content with best, they need to just smash the competition to pieces. As a substitute of an evolutionary development of last 12 months’s RB19, the 2024 RB20 is a very different aerodynamic concept, and it already looks like Red Bull has gained more pace than the remainder of the grid. It’s only pre-season testing,…
The Nineteen Eighties were good to the manufacturing partnership of Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. While Simpson was known as something of a shit heel in Hollywood, he got results, and with Bruckheimer helping him out, those results were value billions. Starting in 1983, when their first film together Flashdance, garnered $201.5 million from a $7 million budget, they were untouchable. After that the duo went on a run, producing banger after banger with Beverly Hills Cop, Top Gun, and Beverly Hills Cop II combining to make nearly a billion on the box office. But their 1990 film — one…
