Contemporary review/driving impressions originally published in European Car February 1993 Lettered on the rear of the white Porsche is the word “Ultimate.” Rather heady and, one might suppose, a bit overwrought. Yet the braggadocio is not in the least undeserved. Because there might be more powerful Porsches, and certainly more dramatic body revisions, but it […]
Porsche Boxster: Highballing the trunk line
Contemporary review originally published in Road & Track Sports & GT Cars 1998 I was on the way home from taking my 14-year-old daughter to music camp at Mansfield University when I stopped at a Texaco station in the little burg of Wysox, Pennsylvania. Earlier, my wife had looked at the Porsche Boxster and said […]
Tweaking the Knows: Strosek Porsche 911
Strosek’s subtle styling, exhaust growl will resonate among the cognoscenti Contemporary review originally published in Autoweek December 2, 1991 It is, Fred Opert opines, what Porsche should have done when it revised the 911 for 1990. “It” being a restyle like the one German designer Vittorio Strosek is marketing in America through Fred Opert Racing. […]
1965 Corvair Corsa Spyder: Chevrolet’s mid-’60s Turbocar
Originally published in AutoWeek February 15, 1982 1965 Chevrolet Corvair Corsa Spyder; Photos by John Matras Conceived in the midst of Eisenhower’s orthodoxy and reared in Kennedy’s conformist Camelot, the Chevrolet Corvair was GM’s initial venture into the unconventional. No one expected such a car from Detroit, and by common knowledge, it should never have […]
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