In a world of crossovers, it’s always a treat to spend time with something a bit lower to the ground. Evaluating performance cars on the street only shows so much, though. Painting the most full picture of a sports car’s capability requires track time – something many manufacturers are loathe to approve when I ask. …
2021 Chevrolet C8 Corvette Review: Street Drive & Track Time at Spring Mountain Read More »
I almost had them. It was a hot, sunny day at Summit Point and I’d taken the green flag about fifteen minutes prior. Starting toward the back of my German Touring Series pack, I had a decent start and was chasing the field, battling it out with a black Porsche Boxster, chasing down a brown …
“How’s that been treating you,” I asked my friend Brandon about his newly-purchased 2013 BMW X5 M as we stood on grid at the main circuit of Summit Point Motorsports Park. Brandon’s E70 X5 M had replaced a V8-powered “E92” BMW M3 coupe, deemed too small for his growing English lab. “It’s great! It’s fun …
Racetrack Time in BMW’s First All-Wheel Drive M-Car, the ‘E70’ BMW X5 M Read More »
As car people, we’ve each cultivated an imaginary list of dream cars. They usually vary wildly, from a Ford Centurion to a 1903 Olds Runabout. Whatever your mind can think of, it’s somewhere on this infinite list of cars. For me, there has always been a permanent top three on my list. They’ll slide from …
Ford’s Mustang has been considered an iconic American “pony car” since the first cars were sold back in 1964. Call it a pony car, call it a sports car, whatever. The Mustang is Ford’s bread-and-butter fun-on-wheels and has been built and sold in countless iterations for the better part of sixty years. Shelby American partnered …
The 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 is a Drag (Strip) Queen That Can Handle a Road Course 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 »
Zach walked up to me as I was checking a few things on my racecar prior to my group’s morning practice session at HyperFest. My staff radio was on the counter, inside my trailer, and I had missed the slightly frantic call from Turn 15’s corner worker, which normally would have been coming from my …
“Tom Rolled, But He’s Okay.” Subaru Crash at VIR Read More »
Although BMW’s 1 series was introduced to Europe in 2004, our first introduction to the baby BMW in the United States didn’t come until 2008. BMW offered the 1 series with two inline six-cylinder engines – either a naturally aspirated, 230 horsepower “N52” in the BMW 128i or twin-turbocharged, 300 horsepower “N54” in the 135i. …
I will have had my E36 325is for seven years this March. If you would have told 16-year-old Tyler back in 2012 that his E36 would still be around today, and that it would win him some regional championships on top of that, he would be super excited. But if you told him of all …
It’s Not You, It’s Me (Why I’m Breaking Up With My E36) Read More »
