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This is climate change at work, gradually shifting what a normal season and storm looks like. Car companies, who are themselves significant contributors to climate change, acknowledge this to va…
People in America have fond memories of the Prelude, which is why finding out that it was a flop in Japan is so hard to imagine. What’s even harder to wrap your head around is part of why: it ha…
Specialist shops like R Best in the outskirts of Tokyo want to keep GT-Rs in Japan. The way GT-Rs are being (or will soon be) exported is causing scarcity in Japan, pushing prices up t…
Rumor has it that Subaru, after Toyota’s shares in the company increased from sixteen to twenty percent , could be teaming up with Toyota for the newest iteration of the WRX STI. Subaru and Toyo…
According to the company’s September sales report and spotted by Carscoops, Infiniti sales plunged 43.9 percent in September. I’ve used the word “plunged” many times covering stocks and car sale…
It’s been decades and there is still no car like Mazda’s triple-rotor Eunos Cosmo, a vehicle more ambitious, more foolish and more amazing than many cars made since. They’re extremely good …
In 1991, Bugatti debuted the EB110, meant to be as high-tech a car as possible. It had a daring five valves per cylinder. In 1994, Ferrari followed suit with the 40-valve V8 355, then its o…
The Aspark Owl is a surprisingly sexy electric sports car, was launched at the Frankfurt Auto Show last year, where it was spotted by our own David Tracy. Back then the car was claimed to theoretical…
