It’s been a little while since I’ve written about my Ford Fiesta ST. If you’re not really familiar with the platform, read Jalopnik’s awesome review. The last time we talked about my Fiesta ST was probably early in the summer. Well, someone rear ended me (talk about luck!), and it went away for a little bit. But this…
Lime Rock Park, which bills itself as The Road Racing Center of the East, in Salisbury/Lakeville, Connecticut, is home to a lot of great national-level and local level (right down to the grassroots) events. It’s normally a very relaxed place, but it appears something very bad has happened tonight. According to…
These days, it’s no longer all that often that you come across a tuner car with a real sense of a cohesive theme, an ethos as to how its owner decided to go about modifying the vehicle. Most of the time, people look to improve one or two specific areas of the car, not wholly transform it, enhance it into something…
(This is a little bit that I put together on The Fiesta ST Network forum where I’m a moderator. I wrote it last year, but I figure some of you here might be interested to hear how my experience went).
If you’re from the Tri-State area in the Northeast, chances are, you’ve heard of Caffeine and Carburetors. If you haven’t, then boy, you’re missing out on something that is kind of a big deal. The premise is a lot like your local Cars and Coffee, but with some helpings of Goodwood Festival and a hint of Concours…
If you haven’t read my coverage of Day 1, which ended in getting lost for 90 minutes on a divided highway amidst many confusing ‘straight u-turns’ then head there first.
Earlier this spring I was encouraged by a few friends to make the trek from Connecticut down to New Jersey for this year’s East Coast Bash at Old Bridge Township Raceway in New Jersey. For the uninitiated, East Coast Bash, on Memorial Day weekend, gathers up a bunch of grassroots (and no longer-so-grassroots, but I’ll…
If you go around on the motoring interwebs, currently the seventh-generation version of the Ford Fiesta ST is the darling of the press. It's reasonably (startling, given its size) quick, practical, inexpensive, comes in a manual, and more importantly, handles very competently when the road starts to scythe away into…
Yeah, so there's rumors LaFerrari is behind schedule on development. That doesn't seem to have stopped Maranello from putting 2-time World Drivers' Champion Formula 1 driver Fernando Alonso behind the wheel of the test car. It sounds pretty mean, if you ask me, and judging by the steering inputs, pretty nervous,…
For those of you who weren't too fond of the helicopter footage with far too much chit-chat, Red Bull has released the in-car video of the record-shattering run of Loeb in his monstrous Peugeot. Maybe we'll even get a glimpse of those guys foolish enough to cross the road as he charged up the mountain. I don't…
Want to get a taste of what's to come with Polyphony Digital's Gran Turismo 6? Of course you do. Want to earn a chance to be like Lucas Ordóñez? Who wouldn't? GT Academy 2013 qualifying rounds officially kick off today as well. Head over to Playstation Network and snag the free demo. GT Planet is reporting that it…
This beautiful VW Rabbit (and accompanying trailer) was stolen sometime around 3AM PST this morning from well known tuners in the Volkswagen & Ford world, Eurosport/FSWERKS. According to the post on VWVortex from Eurosport, the racecar hadn't been in public view for over 6 years, exempting its recent appearance at…
It's official: Honda will be providing engines for McLaren International's Formula 1 effort starting 2015, a year after the change-over to the new forced-induction V6 formula. Martin Whitmarsh and the chair of Honda made the announcement a short time ago, and it's already spreading across the web. Does this mean the…
Everyone (well, almost everyone) can agree that the 2013 Nissan GT-R is an amazing car. Heck, it's probably one of, if not the best cars on the road. I'm a fan. However, what I'm not a fan of is douchebag parking jobs, like the one pictured above. Owning a $100k car still only affords you one spot at the local…
