Máté and I had a great time at the northernmost winter tire testing center in the world, in February in Finland. The following set of 50 photos serves as a pictorial diary of a nearly one-week trip beyond the northern arctic circle, where Finland's snow tire makers test the hell out of all kinds of rubber.
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Total CP. This one's a year older with a few more miles, but also miles cheaper: http://wwwb.autotrader.ca/a/Volvo/V70/Oa…
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Bah! You kids nowadays and your techno-weenie newfangled thingamawhatzits. Back in the day all we needed was a black powder cartridge, and BOOM!
Well, 2/3. Our "representative" government really only represents about 30% of the population. First-past-the-post voting in a multi-party system yields these foolish results.
Jack Northrop's XP-79. A flying wing designed to ram the tail of enemy bombers. Pilot flew lying prone. Was originally to be powered by rocket motors fueled with fuming nitric acid, and was made of welded magnesium alloy.
It is truly an amazing car. But for us mere mortals with mortgages and kids, what're your operating costs? Insurance, oil changes? Most of us can wangle a way to afford to buy one of these things, but have no idea if we can afford to own one.
Actually. compared to what's out there in the price range, it's a great looking car. Underpowered, but good-looking. 0-60 in 7 seconds? My '09 Rabbit does that... with 2 extra doors and a back seat.
I'm not sure if this could get more 'Merica.
One would assume that the Golf R has no chance in hell of keeping up. As you see in this video, that's not necessarily the case.
The Jezza school of 4-wheeling.... POWAAAHHH!
If only.... why oh why oh why would you put a NA 1.5 in this thing? If you've got a lovely Scirrocco like this, and you must put a diesel in, why wouldn't you put in a 1.6 or 1.9 TD? Then, with adjusting the boost you could easily get ~150 hp and ludicrous amounts of torques? My heart says NP, but with that anemic…
Given that Mazda is pricing their new cars at the upper end of their segments, I don't expect the 2, good-looking as it is, will be flying off the lots as quickly as Festivas, Fits, Sparks or Yaris. Even the Scion tC is outselling the current 2 2:1. Add in the price hike the new models are receiving, and I don't see…
This is indeed a rare opportunity to own a piece of automotive history, and a fun one too - just look at that trunk lid! - but is it worth $3,000? It's 25 years old this year so you could bring it across the border (the ad even says it's located within walking distance of the U.S. of A.) allowing even Americans the…
People are not given red hair as a warning for nothing.
If you aren't a watermelon, and I hope you aren't, because a watermelon that has achieved the level of sentience required to be reading these words right now would be terrifying and also probably immoral, it's not very gory at all. That's because the driver thankfully escaped long before the train was bearing down on…
So that's how the vast acreage of overstuffed cloth seats and dull, dark gray plastic called the "interior" became stylish.
Americans buy horsepower but use torque, as the adage goes, and this revvy puppy puts out about 600 NM — or 442 lb-ft of cobblestone-removing twist. Enough to carry all that shapely ass to 60 mph in under 6.0 seconds while returning what I'd guess is 35 or 36 MPG in combined driving (or 46.3 MPG in the hilariously…
Clearly you people are operating on a different definition of "weird" than I am.
It looks like it's being pulled away from the dock by the two tugs you can see on the right. Early in the video you can see the wake/propwash from one of them to the right of the sub.