Category: Comparisons

FlatSixes: VW gas vs diesel LeMons Showdown

Life is weird sometimes. A couple of months ago, I mentioned how awesome I thought it would be to pit the two most well known San Francisco Bay Area based Porsche LeMons cars against each other in a tongue-in-cheek ‘battle

A Strangely Apt Comparison of Scion to Geo

Imagine if you will. The world’s largest and most consistently successful automaker is in deep trouble. Not because of profits, but because of products. They build a small car… and a small army of overseas competitors blow it away. They

Bring Back Pop-Ups: 10 Contemporary Sports Cars Made Classic

Pop-up headlights are literally the best things in the world. “Lights go up, lights go down,” you know the drill. To celebrate pop-ups, we’ve hit Photoshop hard and have taken 10 cars to fit them onto. For each model, we’ve

Old Versus New: 2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata Grand Touring vs. 1990 Miata

In 1990, an industry choked by fuel-economy regulations rediscovered driving fun. Two and a half decades later, we tour Seattle to reaffirm that the Miata remains the very definition of a roadster. Kurt Cobain’s credit card, the paradoxical plastic conduit

Old vs New: 1990 Nissan Skyline GT-R vs. 2015 Scion FR-S

I recently had the chance to compare my Nissan Skyline GT-R to a Scion FR-S. Yes, folks, that’s right: I’ve compared my legendary, powerful, fabled, privately imported, mad tyte JDM yo Nissan Skyline GT-R to a budget-priced Toyota with more

Mazda RX-7: Turbo vs V8 – /TUNED

Re-shared from /DRIVE The debate seems as old as time, that being whether it is better to build up the light yet sometimes maintenance-intensive rotary engine, or to swap it out for the cheap, reliable and more fuel efficient V8 power from a

Boosted or Natural: Supercharged NSX vs Modifed NA – /TUNED

Video by /DRIVE, Text by Bryce Womeldurf This episode of /TUNED, aired last season on the /DRIVE+ channel, featuring a comparison between two friends’ approaches to tuning the NSX; one keeping things naturally aspirated and the other going with the approach