Interior and Braking

The result is a range of adjustment adequate to let our test drivers (ranging in height from five-seven to six-four) find a nearly ideal seating position. Maximum effective leg room (to th...

Performance to Rival the Pontiac GTO

Standard tire size is 6.50 x 13, with 6.50 x 14 optional. The body panels are made to allow 15-in tires to be used, and 15-inch wheels are available with the "handling package". These are...

Atkinson Cycle Engine

Just to the tach's left is a simple ammeter-like gauge indicating battery charge when the needle drops below center and electric assist when it rises. To get mileage numbers along with va...

New Carbs for More Power

It was the results of our Readers' Choice poll that suggested to us that it was high time we tested another Corvette, but which one? There are two basic body types (the coupe and the conve...
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The Rodeo‘s Big Brother

Like the rest of the Axiom's operating hardware, its V-6 engine is a known quantity, but it's from a different section of the Isuzu warehouse. Instead of the Rodeo's 3.2-liter DOHC 24-...

Snap It Up

Handling was dominated by the Charger's inherent understeer characteristics, a function of both the massive Hemi engine in the front of the car and the large front anti-sway bar. The unde...

The Path to Hot-Rodding Fame

By day, he fine-tunes future suspension systems as GM’s vehicle-dynamics authority. At night, he constructs the sweetest ’69 Camaros big money can buy. Mark Stielow, Pro Touring’s 46-year...

Innocent of the Gross Understeer

The fiberglass hood has five—count 'em, five—NASA-type hood scoops, all functional. Four of them merely open into the engine compartment, while the fifth provides a ram-air effect for the ...

Performance Results

"Maybe for street engine I make mistake — aluminum heads are expensive and that weight doesn't matter on the street." But he's not going to compromise the performance just to take money ou...