“It’s such a tragedy when someone owns such a car and it never leaves the garage. It’s like never making love to your wife.” [Alex Roy, of Road & Track, interviews Valentino Balboni, who was the main test driver for […]
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 Potential Upside to Volkswagen’s Diesel Downfall?
When it came to light last Friday that Volkswagen had been circumventing U.S. environmental standards through a software cheat, I didn’t really think there was much of a story there for me to cover. HOONART tends to focus on sports cars and issues related […]
A Weekend With Pan Speed
‘Passion’ is what the Rotary Meeting was all about at Maze Circuit this past weekend. The Rotary & Roadster Meeting at Sendai Hi-Land was an event I truly enjoyed going to. Run by Pan Speed and a few other shops […]
Alex Roy Discusses the Autonomotive Singularity
[Alex Roy debates where we’re headed as a driving and eventually non-driving culture, and what that could mean for automotive enthusiasts. This was a good one. It starts on a bit of a downer, and I don’t want to spoil […]
Why Ferrari Engineers Don’t Like Turbos
[The subject of turbocharging came up again over the weekend, when Porsche announced that the 911 was going all turbo. There was a lot of discussion online about what this meant for Porsche’s future. I was initially thinking that turbocharging […]
IndyCar Motorcade Across Golden Gate Bridge Honors Fallen Driver Justin Wilson
As the drivers of IndyCar prepare for their season-closing race at Sonoma Raceway, they likely do so with heavy hearts following the crash that claimed the life of Justin Wilson. So to honor him, they drove his car and their […]
Alex Roy’s Morgan 3-Wheeler: So Wrong Yet So Right
Video by The Smoking Tire This new video by Matt Farah from the Smoking Tire is probably filled with more laughter than any single One Take video we’ve seen from him so far. In the video, he takes Alex Roy’s Morgan […]
Emory Motorsports Custom Porsche 356s – Jay Leno’s Garage
Video by Jay Leno’s Garage In this video, Jay checks out two of Emory Motorsports’ custom 356 Porsches. This is the shop which originated the term “outlaw Porsche.” Rod Emory goes through in detail what makes a Porsche an Emory […]
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 […]
