Recently I signed myself, my 60 year old parents, and my brother up for the BMW Performance Driving School at their 137 acre test track near Spartanburg, South Carolina. I wanted to get more comfortable on the track without risking my daily driver, and didn’t want to go solo. There are many class options, but we …
BMW Performance Driving School Experience: Fun for the Whole Family Read More »
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 …
Being able to sample handfuls of new cars is fun on its own, but the real joy in this now-weekly exercise is, for me, being able to share them with others. Some cars are more special than others for whatever reason – and when the 2022 Cadillac CT5-V Blackwing was added to my review schedule, I …
This one’s been a long time coming, and I hate that it took me roughly three months to pull a post together about the event we hosted at the end of August. Life’s been busy but as the final weeks of the year pass rapidly by, it’s finally time to talk about the Rainbow Road …
We Got 48 Mostly-LGBTQ People Competing on a Racetrack in 23 Orphaned Cars Read More »
Let’s get one thing out of the way – when Toyota revealed the 2020 Supra last year, I was one of the people ragging on it endlessly. Their flagship car should be developed in-house, I whined. I spent about twenty minutes with a Supra last October, and softened a bit. Though the waiting list for …
The 2020 Toyota Supra Impresses on the Track and on the Street Read More »
In May of 2019 I made the awesome [I question my sanity] choice to buy a 1998 BMW E36 M3 Sedan in marvelous 90s Resale Silver. First choice on color? No, I would want Techno Violet or Estoril Blue. But somehow I landed with this truly fantastic car. And now, I want to tell you …
Oops, I Did it Again (and Bought Another BMW M3) Read More »
“It’s such a good vibration! It’s such a sweeeeeet sensation!” sang Loletta Holloway with thrill. Not as enthused as she was about my steering wheel vibration that began around fifty miles an hour and went away above eighty, I decided an inspection was due. After all, it has started to get worse since my outing …
Maintenance Matters: Acura Vigor Wheel Bearing Replacement, and Lessons Learned Read More »
When my friend Alvin started planning our trip to Germany, he took ideas from all six of us on what to do when we landed in Munich. Although driving on the Autobahn was a given as part of our day trip to Castle Neuschwanstein, the “must do” bucket-list item I volunteered was to take a …
Green Hell: Nurburgring Driving in a Suzuki Swift Read More »
Ever since my first Holiday Lap at Virginia International Raceway I have wanted to come back and go flat out through the Climbing Esses, scream down Roller Coaster, bust through Hog Pen, and apex NASCAR perfectly, all without being blocked by Mustangs and Corvettes trying to make it a drag race. So when I found …
A Vigorous Evening: Track Night in America in a 1993 Acura Vigor Read More »
How often have you witnessed a longitudinally mounted Japanese five-cylinder scream to its redline while the fully-independent double-wishbone-suspended chassis carves through hairpins and strikes down apexes? You haven’t? I didn’t think so. You probably aren’t alone save for the handful of Honda engineers who built the Acura Vigor. To help spread some awareness of Honda’s …
Five Cylinders of Fury: 1993 Acura Vigor on Track at NCCAR Read More »
