Image: NASCAR Daytona International Speedway has had a “roval” element on the circuit since 1959, and since then has been running drag racing and sprinting for sports cars. NASCAR has never run the racetrack in an official capacity. Some NASCAR drivers have hooked up with the Daytona 24 sports car …
Read More »The failure of T-Drive, Ford’s 90s dream of putting a Straight-8 in its car sideways
In the same week before the first Gulf War, Ford showed off an innovative engine design for the 1990s, modular in design.and call back to the most luxurious cars ever made. This is the story of “T-Drive“And Ford’s modular straight eight that never went into production. Welcome back to Auto …
Read More »Auto maker’s big coronavirus losses are here
Photo: fake pictures (fake pictures) Tomorrow’s turnAll your daily car news in one convenient place. Isn’t your time more important? Volkswagen posted a huge loss, as did Renault. Also someone has a silly idea about the GM name. That and more in Tomorrow’s turn by July 30, 2020. 1st gear: …
Read More »One-week-old Tesla Model X has catastrophic suspension failure and the resulting Twitter feed is as bad as you think
Illustration: Jason Torchinsky / Twitter There is no doubt that Tesla absolutely revolutionized electric cars and that they have really elegant engineering and careful design for their cars. There’s also no question that they have some real quality control problems and them CEO a little bit, you know sucks. I …
Read More »Acura is racing a pair of new TLXs at Pikes Peak next month
Photo: Acura The 98th race of the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb is falling a month from Thursday, and Acura has just pulled caps from its competitors for the event. Instead of the MDX and RDX racers that the automaker has unveiled for the past few years, it will attack the …
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