The Corvette's first year of existence, 1953, had been a challenging one. After the car's headline-grabbing debut in New York, Chevrolet had struggled to complete 300 largely hand-...
BMW has so perverted the sanctity of the letter M in its model names and option packages that a brief nomenclature lesson may be appropriate here.
Let’s start at the bottom. An ...
Let the masses have their practical Cruzes and family-friendly Traverses, but please, Chevy, let us have this impractical, family-averse rear-drive coupe. The Code 130R gives off a sort of uprig...
Europe’s exotic-car tuners and smaller automakers use the high-profile Geneva auto show to show off their wares, many of which are as subtle as a branding iron to the face. The...
Despite the grandeur of the Chicago auto show—it’s held in the wonderful and palatial McCormick Place—it doesn’t enjoy the same deluge of debuts that, say, Detroit or L.A. sees...
Rear DriveThere are exceptions, but a $1000 rear-drive car is almost guaranteed to be some sort of Detroit sled. And since we live near the Motor City, there were plenty of choices. I had m...