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Sword Fight, Part Deux: Panoz and DeltaWing Take Out Another Ad Shaming Nissan

Posted on 22.07.2014 | No Comments
Last month, Don Panoz’s DeltaWing concern took out ads in the Tennesseean and Automotive News in an attempt to shame Renault-Nissan’s Carlos Ghosn into sitting down and hashing things out with them. The reason? The remarkable similarity of Nissan’s ZEOD RC to DeltaWing’s own racers. Which, of course, were initially sponsored by Nissan and powered […]
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RS’d to Kill: More Details Emerge on Extra-Hot Ford Focus RS

Posted on 22.07.2014 | No Comments
Sure, we have the brawny Ford Focus ST. We have its little brother, the Fiesta ST, a 10Best-winning machine so nimble that it makes Ben Vereen look like Lurch. But what Ford hatchback enthusiasts have been demanding for years is an honest-to-Hank RS model. It was posited for some time that the ST might be […]
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Porsche 960/988: New Info Emerges on the Semi-Secret Weapon from Zuffenhausen

Posted on 08.07.2014 | No Comments
Since its introduction with the lovely, Pininfarina-styled 308 of 1976, the two-place, mid-engined, eight-pot Ferrari has been a constant that’s seen challengers come and go. Sure, Porsche’s turbocharged 911s have offered performance parity or superiority, but they’re a juiced version of a car affordable by mere dentists. Lamborghini’s Jalpa and Silhouette never posed a serious […]
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In The Hall of the Mountain Kingslayers: Mitsubishi’s MiEV Evolutions Close to Pikes Peak Dominance

Posted on 07.07.2014 | No Comments
We learned something at Pikes Peak. It’s that the storied hill-climb, the second-oldest major motorsport event in the U.S., is not unlike an episode of the classic anime series Initial D. No, nobody’s named “God Foot”, but there is an old salt who goes by “Monster.” It’s that, essentially, with the exception of the contestants […]
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Time to Climb: Romain Dumas Wins Pikes Peak International Hillclimb, [w/ Full Race Overview]

Posted on 02.07.2014 | No Comments
Pikes Peak is a meleé of parts, a free-for-all of power. Homebuilt open-wheelers vie with quads. Production-based sports cars do battle with electric vehicles purpose-built for the 14,114-foot-tall mountain. Bikes take on classic ‘60s muscle. Locals whose families have raced on the mountain for generations take on international stars. This year, Le Mans winner Romaine […]
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Three for the Road: 2013 Morgan 3 Wheeler Tested!

Posted on 01.07.2014 | No Comments
All myths aside, the Golden State is a lonely, hard place at the edge of the continent, low on water and high on stretches of desolation. Little is preserved here; it falls into disrepair and uselessness and it’s either left behind to rot or it’s razed and replaced—sometimes with something better, sometimes not. Space isn’t […]
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2015 Hyundai Sonata Sport 2.0T Test: Dialing Back Flash, Amping Up the Chassis

Posted on 30.06.2014 | No Comments
Over its life span, the Hyundai Sonata has rarely made a powerful styling statement. (We’re not counting the powerfully ugly ones.) But the last Sonata stood as the looker in its set until it was eclipsed by its elegant Kia Optima stablemate and Ford’s new David Brown Fusion-Martin. For 2015, Hyundai has dialed back the radical in […]
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A Semi with a Benz on Top! First Look at the Cars of Mad Max: Fury Road

Posted on 26.06.2014 | No Comments
It’s a little jarring to realize that the most recent Max Rockatansky film was released 29 years ago. In that time, director George Miller has tried numerous times to get a fourth installment off the ground. Well, it’s almost here, and from what we’ve seen in these images from Entertainment Weekly, the automobiles look preposterously, […]
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Sword Fight: DeltaWing’s Don Panoz Takes Out Ad to Shame Carlos Ghosn Over Nissan ZEOD RC

Posted on 25.06.2014 | No Comments
Don Panoz is not pleased with Nissan’s narrow-nosed ZEOD RC. We’ve known this since at least December, when we found out that Panoz was suing the Japanese automaker over pretty blatant design similarities between Panoz’s DeltaWing project and Nissan’s new race car. Given that both were designed by Ben Bowlby, who’d initially shopped the narrow-track […]
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Hello Operator! New Camaro Z/28 Meets Wall at Road America, OnStar Offers Assistance

Posted on 24.06.2014 | No Comments
Sure, the new Z/28 has gobs of grip. Shod with 305-section-width Pirelli Trofeo R rubber—tires that are as close to slicks as the law will allow—the mightiest Camaro was bred for track duty first. Any concessions to street use were either mandated by the feds or GM product planning. One imagines the meeting at GM, […]
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Is it Too Fast For Love? Harley-Davidson Announces Project LiveWire Electric Motorcycle

Posted on 20.06.2014 | No Comments
“The Motor Company.” It’s motorcycle slang for Harley-Davidson, and the Milwaukee-based concern is lucky that “The Engine Company” didn’t wind up in the parlance, because it’d throw an identity wrench into their latest venture — an electric motorcycle. Wisconsin, land of thowmping pushrod V-Twins, is about the last place you’d expect a mainline production e-bike […]
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Oil Stop: We Attend the Porsche Parade Concours in Monterey

Posted on 19.06.2014 | No Comments
On our way to Los Angeles to handle some business, we stopped in Monterey to pick up a can of Porsche’s new motor oil. The Porsche Club of America was throwing its annual weeklong Porsche Parade, a gathering of Zuffenhausen-bred automobiles from all over the country. And while your author is a member of this […]
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Posts by Davey G. Johnson

Sword Fight, Part Deux: Panoz and DeltaWing Take Out Another Ad Shaming Nissan

RS’d to Kill: More Details Emerge on Extra-Hot Ford Focus RS

Porsche 960/988: New Info Emerges on the Semi-Secret Weapon from Zuffenhausen

In The Hall of the Mountain Kingslayers: Mitsubishi’s MiEV Evolutions Close to Pikes Peak Dominance

Time to Climb: Romain Dumas Wins Pikes Peak International Hillclimb, [w/ Full Race Overview]

Three for the Road: 2013 Morgan 3 Wheeler Tested!

2015 Hyundai Sonata Sport 2.0T Test: Dialing Back Flash, Amping Up the Chassis

A Semi with a Benz on Top! First Look at the Cars of Mad Max: Fury Road

Sword Fight: DeltaWing’s Don Panoz Takes Out Ad to Shame Carlos Ghosn Over Nissan ZEOD RC

Hello Operator! New Camaro Z/28 Meets Wall at Road America, OnStar Offers Assistance

Is it Too Fast For Love? Harley-Davidson Announces Project LiveWire Electric Motorcycle

Oil Stop: We Attend the Porsche Parade Concours in Monterey

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