If you told anyone in the automotive industry 21 years ago that Cadillac would eventually produce the most driver-centric and trackable manual transmission super sedan on the market, you would lose all credibility for making such an outlandish claim. Once Cadillac introduced the first CTS-V in 2004, the world started… Read more…
Morning, how is the day going so far? We had the first snowfall of the year settling on the ground when I woke up, which means people around these parts are either excited like a kid in a candy shop, or pissed at the thought of shoveling snow for the next few months. Guess which…
Porsche really wants you to know that the new 992.2 facelift of the 911 Carrera T comes only with a manual transmission. Big stickers on the side windows show the shift pattern, as do the puddle lights. The 917-inspired shift knob is made of wood and impossible to miss when you glance inside; if you…
Pretty much everything manufactured in the Soviet Union was stouter but cruder than their Western counterparts. Today’s Nice Price or No Dice GAZ-69 allows us to experience that firsthand. We’ll have to see just how much of a capitalist one would need to be to buy it. Read more…
Ducati test rider Michele Pirro was able to exchange spoken messages with team manager Davide Tardozzi over radio during Tuesday’s MotoGP test in Barcelona.In the first minutes of the official test at the Circuit de Catalunya-Barcelona, an intercom that Dorna had been developing was installed in Pirro’s helmet before he went out on track. On…
It was about to be a busy few weeks for James Hinchcliffe. When we met in Austin, he was just starting off a triple-header, having joined the F1 TV team for the series’ North American swing. In between filming spots, he roamed the paddock picking up information he could put to good use, then picked…
Formula 1 has been accused of “stifling competition” after insisting all tickets resold through third parties for the F175 event at London’s O2 next year will be invalid.Tickets for the 18 February event, where all 10 teams will unveil their liveries for 2025 with all 20 drivers set to be present, sold out in just…
Francesco Bagnaia joined an elusive club of just five riders to have won 11 or more grands prix in a single season in the premier class when he triumphed in last weekend’s MotoGP finale in Barcelona.Yet when he returned to the Ducati garage after taking the chequered flag, he was forced to take off the…
Six-time MotoGP champion Marc Marquez made his debut with the factory Ducati team in the Barcelona post-season test on Tuesday morning.More than an hour after the track action began, Marquez finally headed out on track to get his first taste of next year’s GP25 at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.The Spaniard completed a total of four laps…
Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff said he was not implying Lewis Hamilton is past his best in a recent comment referring to his “shelf life”.
