Hot Foot at Talladega: Record setting in the Saab 900
“For my next act, I will set myself on fire.” So said Craig Breedlove after one of his speed records went awry. That was what I did not want to do when Saab invited me – along with 119 other…
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1979 Maserati Merak SS: Less-expensive exotic kept company afloat during the lean years
Maserati, under the Orsi family, as it had been under Fratelli Maserati and later under Alejandro DeTomaso, was always financially marginal, despite a succession of seductive automobiles. So when in 1965 Citroen president Pierre Bercot suggested a Maserati engine for…
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Cadillac Allante and Buick Reatta: Pick a Pair of Luxury Two-Seaters from General Motors
There’s only one problem with two seaters: there are only two seats. After all, when you have a two-seater, you want to take people out for a ride to show off your new toy. With a two-seater, you can take…
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Production version of the Cadillac Ciel concept dies alongside Caddy übersedan
Its fate is sealed. According to a report by Automotive News, a production version of the Cadillac Ciel isn’t going to happen. The Cadillac Ciel, a four-door convertible, could have been, if perhaps not a four-door drop-top, a long and…
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1956 Lancia Aurelia Spyder: Simple, golden
When the roll is called up yonder for great cars that no one ever thinks about anymore, surely the Lancia Aurelia Spyder’s name will be written in gold. No one really thought very much about it in 1956 when it…
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1968 Lancia Flaminia Berlina: Italy’s most luxurious sedan
The Via Flaminia, one of the great Roman roads, was laid down by the Roman Consul Flaminius in 220 B.C., and along its measured stones Rome’s legions marched northward to battle the Teutonic tribes. In 1958, Lancia introduced the Lancia…
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1991-2000 | Special Editions | USA | V-6
Special Editions Shogun: Here’s to crazy ideas
“By the fifth Corona it seemed like a bitchin’ idea,” Rick Titus chuckled. But the problem with bench racing with Chuck Beck, he added, is that Beck has the skills to execute what most of us would just propose and…
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1997 Acura NSX
Originally published in The Complete Road & Track ’97 Car Buyer’s Guide; republished by the author Back in the mid-60’s, a serious sports car had to have its engine in the middle. Lots of reasons were cited for this, things…
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1991-2000 | Germany | I-4 | V-6 | Volkswagen
Volkswagen Corrado G60 and SLC: The short run of a German sprinter
Volkswagen called it the Corrado, allegedly from the Spanish correr, to sprint or run. And the new coupe, having its debut in the fall of 1989 as a 1990 model, had no waste, and just put the leftovers in the…
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Ford Probe: Sporty econocar or Thunderbird stand-in?
Review originally published in Road & Track Car Buyer’s Guide 1997 Once destined to replace the Mustang as a properly down-sized, front-drive import-pretender, the Ford Probe instead became an in-house alternative to the rear-drive ponycar. Where the Mustang is bold,…
