Let’s get the inevitable comparison out of the way. The 2022 Audi S3 is very much related to the ‘Mk8’ 2022 Volkswagen Golf R that I drove only weeks apart. They share the updated MQB platform, EA888 2.0 liter turbocharged four cylinder engine, and seven-speed dual-clutch transmission. I would bet that suspensions are either identical …
2022 Audi S3 Review: A Classically German Compact Read More »
Volkswagen’s outgoing ‘Mark 7′ GTI, and Golf R were, to me and to many others, near perfection. Over decades, VW refined and refined the hot (and hotter) hatchbacks to where they were formulaically fantastic drivers’ cars, just as happy to bumble around a city as they were to be ripped around a racetrack. My hope, …
I was a rising senior in college when the current generation of Toyota 4Runner first launched. A few years later, I had graduated and was working at my first “big boy” job, for a company that no longer exists – AOL – and Toyota gave Ye Olde 4Runner a facelift. Eleven years have passed since the fifth-generation …
2022 Toyota 4Runner TRD Pro Review: Due for Replacement, Yet Remarkably Charming Read More »
Pittsburgh International Race Complex, better known as Pitt Race, is a heckin’ fun racetrack located about 45 minutes west of Pittsburgh proper, in the mountains of Pennsylvania. I’d been a few times in the past, but not since purchasing my Spec3 BMW 325is racecar and joining my new series. Two NASA regions – Great Lakes and …
This article’s been a long time coming, and I finally have a few minutes to pull it together. Following the success of last year’s Rainbow Road Trackcross, we booked Summit Point Motorsports Park not once, but twice for events this year. Our first trackcross weekend of 2022 took place over Mothers’ Day weekend in May …
In the time I’ve been reviewing new cars, there have been ostensibly cooler, faster, more expensive, and more interesting cars pass through my hands than yet another midsize sport-utility. And my parents, despite their last ride in whatever I was driving being a 668 horsepower stick-shift Cadillac, have never been so excited as when I …
Bringing a Jaguar F-Pace Home Was My ‘Hey Look Ma, I Made It’ Moment Read More »
I’ll start this off with a spicy take – I didn’t particularly like the outgoing Honda Civic. I took a 2020 Civic Si to Summit Point and hooned a Civic Type-R on New Jersey back roads. While the Type-R impressed, the old Si was a bit of a letdown – and both cars felt a bit …
2022 Honda Civic Si Review: There’s More to Fun than Horsepower Read More »
In 2004, Mercedes-Benz introduced the CLS-Class. It was, in effect, a swoopier and ‘sportier’ variant of their midsize E-Class sedan, with more rakish looks and a bit less practicality as a result. Every German automaker soon followed, creating “four door coupes” that obliterated all sense of the word “coupe” and its meaning. But where some …
2022 Audi S5 Sportback Review: The Not-Sedan Hot Sedan Read More »
It’s time to discuss Subaru’s latest sport sedan, and I can hear the screeching about plastic body cladding already. Let’s put that aside for the next thousand words because there is more to the 2022 Subaru WRX than its divisive styling. I first experienced a WRX in college, when a friend in our motorsports club …
2022 Subaru WRX Review: All Grown Up, to Mixed Effect Read More »
The first week-long loan extended to me by an automaker was a 2019 Toyota Tundra. This little website was taking off, and Toyota believed in what we were doing enough to offer up a loan for Hyperfest in May of that year. I put about 600 miles on that pearl white Tundra, and three years …
2022 Toyota Tundra 1794 Edition Towing Test and Review: Finally! Read More »
