Everything is Perfect

If the car receiving surgery is a road­ster, the sportwagon top comes as one piece which covers the cockpit and bolts into the normal windshield hardware. If you start with a coupe however...

A Useful Car in a Small Package

Drum brakes are used all around on the Corolla; two leading shoes in front and leading and trailing shoes in the rear. Pedal pressure is reasonable and no sig­nificant fade was noticeable ...

A ”Competition Handling” Suspension

The dragstrip was also the place to find out whether the hood scoop had as much effect on acceleration as it did on appearance. Its operation is very simple. Whenever manifold vacuum drop...

Interior Flaws and Future Plans

Despite its tire weaknesses, the Corvette is a superior automobile in all departments of handling. Like the man said, the machine is excellent, but the car's functional applications are li...

Intricacies of Fuel Injection

Originally published in Sports Cars Illustrated magazine in June 1957. As these points were observed the engine coolant rose to about 170 degrees F. and the idle dropped to a mere 1200....

Suspension and Brakes

Originally published in Sports Cars Illustrated in March 1959.Having carefully selected our list, we were pleasantly surprised to find that the Chevrolet Division could put such a sample at...

No Map-reading Light

Directional stability at speed is unusually good, regardless of crosswinds and road surfaces. The car can be controlled with a fingertip on a good road, and gentle curves call for no extra ...

1964 Pontiac Tempest GTO Road Test – Review

TESTED Most knowledgeable enthusiasts reacted negatively when Pontiac announced that their new Tempest sports model was to be called the GTO. They felt, as we did, that Pontiac was swip...

2004 Scion xA and xB – Specs

VEHICLE TYPE: front-engine, front-wheel-drive, 5-passenger, 5-door wagon BASE PRICE: xA, $12,965; xB, $14,165 ENGINE TYPE: DOHC 16-valve 4-in-line, aluminum block and head, Toyota e...

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...