Acceleration and Transmissions

As always, the fuel-injected Corvette engine is a sweetheart to drive. Power is excellent, but even more impressive is the torque curve, which is as close to being flat as any we've seen. F...

Area of Maximum Tuning

In 1963 we were a bit stunned by a Mercury Marauder that had 427 cubic inches, 425 horsepower, good handling, and performance that, to us, was absolutely breathtaking. The Tempest GTO is ...

Race Breeding and Engineering

The barrels have alloy cooling fins and shrunk-in "Hirai" (a spe­cial cast iron) liners. The bore and stroke, at 3.15 x 2.60 inches (80 x 66mm) are fashionably oversquare, with a ratio of...

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...