Standard High-Performance

Nor is there any significant difference between this year's Shelby Mustang and last year's, although there is a whale of a difference between Ford's stock $3500 Mustang and Shelby's versio...

Accelerates with a Vigorous Growl

The only real handling fault of the 911S is a corkscrewing motion of the front end when cornering on an undulating surface. This appears to be a by-product of the Porsche's unconventional...

Relatively Poor Ride

Also (unhappily) it's this same lightness that contributes to the Corolla's relatively poor ride. On anything but a smooth road it pitches and bounces with vigor, fortu­nately at a frequen...

More than the Average Corvette

(9) It being a mass-class sports car, the Corvette's excellent engineering tends to be obscured by some rather garish styling gimmicks that make the uninitiated wonder if the car is a fake...

The Corvette is Hard to Beat

Originally published in Sports Cars Illustrated in March 1959.If your interests lie in drag-racing, by all means pick the 4.56. If road-racing is more your style, then you'll probably want ...

Powertrain

Thorough tweaking results in Corvette C5 and 11/16ths....

The Power of the V-8 Ford

John Tojeiro also designed the body, a sleek shape reminiscent of the Ferrari 166 Mille Miglia. Design work on Ford's Challenger V-8 engine began in 1958 under the leadership of Robert F. S...
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Dealer Visits

The stylish interior got good reviews. All of us liked the feel of the steering wheel and its easy-to-use radio and cruise-control buttons. Not so popular was the titanium-colored center-d...