AUTOS
-Five years ago, all the smarties, including those occupying positions of responsibility on this staff, told you that those manifestations of the great performance binge of the 1960s known as Pony cars were as surely doomed to the automotive tar pits as ragtops and side-mounted spares. No one believed these predictions more than the Detroit moguls who read the omens of inflation, energy shortages and the ravings of consumerist loonies
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-For the famous and powerful, appearance can be everything, and for those willing to live in a malleable reality shaped by stacks of cash and globs of ego, there is the Rolls-Royce Phantom Limelight Collection. The latest in a series of limited-production bespoke editions to emerge from the company’s home in Goodwood, England, it’s aimed at making life more tolerable for those with little reason to complain in the first place.
-For the famous and powerful, appearance can be everything, and for those willing to live in a malleable reality shaped by stacks of cash and globs of ego, there is the Rolls-Royce Phantom Limelight Collection. The latest in a series of limited-production bespoke editions to emerge from the company’s home in Goodwood, England, it’s aimed at making life more tolerable for those with little reason to complain in the first place.
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– We know pretty much all there is to know about the 2016 Acura NSX sports car—well, save for carnal knowledge of how it drives. At the 2015 SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) World Congress in Detroit, however, we were able to glean a few new nuggets of information. While we still don’t know what the NSX’s final output looks like (so far, it’s “north of 550 horsepower”), we do know
– We know pretty much all there is to know about the 2016 Acura NSX sports car—well, save for carnal knowledge of how it drives. At the 2015 SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) World Congress in Detroit, however, we were able to glean a few new nuggets of information. While we still don’t know what the NSX’s final output looks like (so far, it’s “north of 550 horsepower”), we do know
– The British have a long history of slightly unhinged motorsport projects, from shed-built hill-climb specials through to the Garagista teams who reinvented Formula 1 and sports-car racing in the 1950s and ’60s. But even by the standards of such eccentric endeavor, the Bloodhound SSC project stands out as something special, a car that’s being built to push the land-speed record over 1000 mph. – The quest to build the
