Tag: Dyno wednesday

This is the sound of eight very angry pistons wailing away like it’s their last day on earth. The thing that gets me about race cars isn’t just how intense they are, but the fact that they have to me maxed out around a track, all day, non-stop. That’s impressive. Don’t get me wrong, I […] More »

So far as I know, there are only a handful of production cars that have a redline in the vicinity of 9000 rpm. Even among those rare few (the new 911 GT3 comes to mind), none of them make power anywhere near the scale of this. Probably because they’re not race cars. Whatever. They should […] More »

The Chevy Monza was a weird little car. Not just in the way it looked, but because of what it was supposed to be. Would you believe that Chevrolet had initially planned to build this thing with a wankel rotary engine? It would’ve been like an all american RX-3. Those plans were eventually scuttled due […] More »

I gotta confess, the E36 M3 is probably my favorite M car of all time. It’s not as rare and unreasonably expensive as the first one, or as complicated and unreasonably expensive as every M3 after it. That said… It would be better an LS. Like this one. All the style and handling of an […] More »

In a lot of ways, the Fiero was way ahead of it’s time. It was a relatively inexpensive, well handling, mid-engine car. Even it’s production was weird: GM didn’t even want to build the thing until it was pitched by their young designers as a fuel efficient commuter. They built it, eventually, but it was […] More »