Story and photos by Russell Purcell Hybrid automotive technologies have become an integral part of the marketplace as growing concerns for the deplorable condition of our environment and out-of-control fuel prices have manufacturers and consumers alike looking for viable solutions to alleviate some of the more immediate problems. As a company Porsche, was late to [...]

The Los Angeles International Auto Show in November is the first major show of the season in the U.S., and as such, has become one of the more important ones, as manufacturers have had the previous six months in which to accumulate new concept and production models for their first public display. The show is [...]

By Morten L J Koch   If you are anything like me, you are skimming this article. Not because you aren’t really interested, but because you have no time. Constantly rushing from place to place and wondering how it will all get done. I spend too much of my day in my vehicle going from [...]

By Cam Hutchins   Randy Browning has had some of the cooler muscle cars including a 1969 Mustang Mach 1, but time for cars was taken up with work and raising a family, so he would eagerly listen to a co-worker talk about his old hot rod. The die was cast that one day; Randy [...]

The creator of greatness, the killer of the great Story by Budd Stanley, photos courtesy of Lotus Any damn fool can build a bridge that won’t fall down, but it takes a man of much greater skill to build a bridge that just won’t fall down. Great men portray characteristics that some would consider anti [...]

Transformation from a four-door sedan to a two-door droptop has been beautifully executed By Nigel Matthews My immediate reaction to spotting this 1955 Jaguar MK VII at the Hilton Head Island Concours in South Carolina was to think that the boys back at Brown’s Lane in Coventry, England – the home of the Jaguar factory [...]

22-year-old’s dream car By Nigel Matthews Richard Bosley was a horticulturalist from Ohio, and despite loving his Jaguar XK120, he was not happy with its performance and he yearned for a car shaped like the Ferraris he had seen in Road & Track magazine during the early Fifties. When he attended the first race at [...]

Story and photos by Dave MacKinnon Norm has covered off many of the highlights of this year’s CES quite eloquently. For me, on merely my 8th time at the show in my 24 year career, It was quite different for me. Usually I am there to directly support the company I work for, or as [...]

Story and photos by Norm Ross   I am calling CES 2012 (the Consumer Electronics Show), the year of the robot. Anyone reading this in their fourth decade of life, or older, will remember the toy robot or car that you got Christmas morning with a long wire to a remote control. If you were [...]

Are increasingly advanced tuning technologies making the TDI the next GTI? Story by Budd Stanley, photos courtesy of VW   I’ve always been a big Volkswagen fan. I’ve built and modified old Rabbits, Golfs and GTIs and they provided me with some of the most fun driving moments. While the old GTIs were a blast [...]