AUTOS
-Two yellow-hot Ferrari Testarossas will roll across the auction block at Britain’s legendary Silverstone circuit later this month. – The first Prancing Horse is a 1986 model, and is claimed to have been impeccably maintained by its two previous owners despite clocking 45,000 road miles. Two distinguishing features of this early model are the single “flying mirror” and the center-lock “knock off” wheels, which should help in pushing bidders towards
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– We were skeptics of Ford’s aluminum-truck-bed-and-body gambit, but in a February-issue comparison test, a $60,000-plus F-150 SuperCrew with a twin-turbocharged 3.5-liter V-6 dispatched the mostly steel four-door competition from Chevrolet, Ram, and Toyota. But there’s a new, even smaller engine on the F-150’s order sheet, a 2.7-liter V-6. How, we wondered, would it fare under the hood of the mostly nonferrous Ford? READ MORE ›› –
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– Each week, our German correspondent slices and dices the latest rumblings, news, and quick-hit driving impressions from the other side of the pond. His byline may say Jens Meiners, but we simply call him . . . the Continental. – – One of Germany’s most prolific auto designers continues to make headlines—as the chief designer of Qoros, the offspring car company of an Israeli-Chinese joint venture. Developed with massive help from
While everybody was busy watching for Tesla to introduce its wall-mounted battery pack for solar-powered houses, the electric automaker quietly began offering used Model S sedans on its website. Now you can get a certified preowned Model S—provided you live in one of the 11 U.S. metropolitan areas currently offering used Teslas. – The Wall Street Journal first discovered the new “Preowned” tab on the Tesla Motors website, which seems to
– In five years, more than 76,000 Americans have welcomed Bob Lutz’s electric baby into their homes, all this time wishing it would grow up to be a faster, cleaner, and cheaper plug-in hybrid. The second-gen 2016 Chevrolet Volt has matured with at least one of those hopes fulfilled: It’s $1175 less than the 2015 model. – Before any tax incentives or rebates, the 2016 Volt will start at $33,995,
– Just before the previous-generation F-150 went out of production, Ford offered the truck with a “gaseous-fuel prep” option for the 2014 model year. In non-gassy speak, the package was essentially a kit that allowed the engine to run on compressed natural gas, and it was only available with the old F-150’s base 3.7-liter V-6. Now nearly a year into the current F-150‘s production run, Ford has announced that it will
-We inspected the entrants at the sixth annual Southern Discomfort 24 Hours of LeMons on Friday, and today they raced. We saw a lot of lead changes in each of three classes, but— unusually for LeMons— Class A turned out to be the most exciting. Here’s what went down in Kershaw today. – -Team S.O.B. (Sick of Breaking) and their 1986 Volkswagen Golf are competing in their 15th LeMons race,
-We’re back at Carolina Motorsports Park in South Carolina for the sixth annual Southern Discomfort 24 Hour of LeMons, and today we inspected the 90 or so vehicles that will be competing this weekend. We saw more Mazda Miatas, BMW 3- and 5-series cars, and Ford Mustangs than ever before at this venue, which was disappointing, but we also had a good contingent of elderly Detroit Iron show up. We’ll
