2006 Honda Ridgeline Road Test – Review

In the past four years, Honda has become well equipped on the SUV front, redesigning the small CR-V and introducing the full-size Pilot, boxy Element, and upscale Acura MDX. But strangely...

Not for the Novice

At any rate, the bugs aren't yet out of Porsche's vented discs. True, they run cooler, making them less prone to fade, and lengthening pad life, but they are more difficult to modulate. I...

How Does It Work?

The car shown here was built by Chuck Miller of Detroit. Mill­er's usual work tends more toward the showcar circuit and its attendant spinoff into plastic model kits (for example his Zinge...

A Fighting Chance in the ”Go Games”

In anticipation of the Feds' demand for mandatory head restraints, Ford built them right into the seat backs. The Mach I's front buckets are now shaped very much like those in a commercia...

Pricing and Options

For 1962 there are no Limited Production Options (LPOs) for the Corvette; everything optional fails in the RPO (Regular Production Option) category. In gearboxes for example the Powerglide ...

Don‘t Call It a Pickup

At the end of the shifter is a Toad Hall button (It's "Tow/Haul"—Ed.), and the 3.06 first-gear ratio means the EXT is useful for dragging the wreckage away from locomotive collisions. The...

But What A Road Car!

This car does what so many others only talk about—it really does combine brute, blasting performance with balance and stability of a superior nature. The managing editor, for instance, wa...