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How European Fuel Economy Testing Will Kill The Naturally Aspirated Engine
While Americans are still asking whether it’s even wise to buy small turbocharged engines instead of larger naturally aspirated ones, we in Europe are slowly losing our ability to even choose a car...
View Article“Pssshhtttt”: The New Sound Of Performance
Click here to view the embedded video. The Infiniti Q50 Eau Rouge was one of the more underwhelming concepts at NAIAS. Apparently we’ll find out what’s under the hood at the Geneva Auto Show. The video...
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Electric Turbochargers: Not Just For Tuner Magazines?
Back in the heyday of import tuner magazines, there was an ever-reliable advertisement for some kind of “electric turbocharger”, generally the kind seen above. Much like the “10x pheromones”, one...
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Yamamoto: This MX-5 Is All You’re Getting, Take It or Leave It
First it was the Toyobaru triplets. Now it’s the MX-5. Nobuhiro Yamamoto, program manager for the Mazda MX-5 Miata, has crushed the dreams of those looking for more factory horsepower from the...
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2015 Mercedes-Benz GLA250 4MATIC: Lookin’ for Love
The 2015 Mercedes-Benz GLA250 lives within the margins. The compact — which shares more in common with a hatchback than an SUV — has a life thanks to America’s all-things-crossover obsession. It...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 2004 Chrysler PT Cruiser GT Turbo
The quantity of Chrysler PT Cruisers in the high-turnover self-service wrecking yards remained close to zero for the first decade after the car’s 2001 model year debut (while the Cruiser’s Neon cousins...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 1994 Volvo 940 Turbo Wagon
The Volvo 900 Series replaced the 700 Series, which replaced the 200 Series, but — in true Volvo fashion — there was sufficient production overlap between these related models that all three were...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 1989 Pontiac Sunbird GT Turbo
Since The General built cars on the J Platform from the 1982 through 2005 model years, I still see numerous examples of the J during my junkyard travels. Most of those are late-production Cavaliers and...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 1995 Volvo 850 Turbo Wagon
When I’m strolling through my favorite junkyards and looking for significant bits of discarded automotive history, I’m always on the lookout for interesting Volvos. Thing is, my definition of...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 1985 Volkswagen Quantum GL Turbo Diesel Sedan
Volkswagen of America used model names that didn’t match up to those of its European counterparts for much of the 1970s and 1980s. The Golf was the Rabbit through 1984 and the Passat started out as the...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 2002 Saab 9-3 SE
During my years of documenting discarded Saabs in junkyards around the country (and in Saab’s homeland), I’ve managed to cover the pre-GM American-market models well enough, with a special focus on the...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 1989 Volvo 780 Turbo Bertone Coupe
I’ve documented quite a few discarded Volvos in this series, from the PV544 through the S60, and I never fail to stop and photograph a genuine Italo-Swedish Volvo Bertone Coupe. Here’s the latest, a...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 1987 Subaru GL-10 Turbo 4WD Wagon
By the second half of the 1980s, Subaru had moved beyond being known only for tiny, hilarious econoboxes. While American Subaru shoppers could still get front-wheel-drive cheapmobiles at that time, the...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 1990 Pontiac Grand Prix Turbo Coupe
The Pontiac Grand Prix started life as a sporty hardtop coupe version of the full-size 1962 Catalina, then spent the 1969 through 1987 model years as a midsize rear-wheel-drive sibling to the Chevy...
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