Motoring
Octane Icon: BMW E30 M3
The BMW M3 easily shows up in the top 10 performance cars on just about…
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MotoringTo Clutch or Not to Clutch: A Guide to Dual Clutch Transmissions
Since General Motors introduced the first Hydra-Matic automatic some 70 years ago, the world has…
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MotoringHow The Maxima Lost Its Way
It’s hard to keep a longstanding car model fresh and consistent over the course of…
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MotoringOctane Icon: Lancia Stratos
Looking like the combination of a duck’s bill and a chisel, the Lancia Stratos was…
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MotoringBehind The Wheel: Volkswagen XL1
In the current automotive landscape, true environmental halo cars don’t exist. Volkswagen, however, has produced…
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MotoringShooting Stars: 5 Best Station Wagons
The venerable station is no longer what it was: a dowdy people hauler that oftentimes…
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MotoringOctane Icon: Ferrari F40
It’s easy to marvel at modern supercars — the Bugatti Veyron, Ferrari 458 Italia and…
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MotoringFaster. Farther.
When the Porsche 917 debuted at the 1970 Le Mans, it quite literally blew away…
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MotoringOctane Icon: BMW M1
The prospect of a German supercar in the 1970s had the tenor of something that…
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MotoringOctane Icon: Lamborghini Countach
Lamborghini never does things quietly — and that’s a very good thing, especially when the…
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MotoringOff Track: Driving the Abbot FV433 Self-Propelled Gun
The mud pit looked impossibly deep, twin ruts at least two feet high and half…
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MotoringPhoto Essay: The 2013 Mille Miglia
The Mille Miglia, or “thousand miles” race, in Brescia, Italy is an automotive mecca of…
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MotoringFull Throttle Thrills: Top 5 Track Cars
Einstein once said that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different…
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MotoringOctane Icon: Porsche 917
Welcome to Octane Icons, a new series born from our newly minted Octane channel. In…
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MotoringKit: 10 Items for Every Glovebox
Like a shoebox filled with letters from your old girlfriend (you don’t still have that,…
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MotoringThe Power Flayers: 5 Best Performance SUVs
A performance SUV is something tantamount to a chainsaw with jet propulsion. There’s really no…
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MotoringStill Running: Visiting John Deere Horicon Works
Iconic. When was the last time you didn’t hear the buzzword spouted in a commercial…
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MotoringAutomotive Horology: A Compendium of 10 Iconic Cars & Watches
Wheels and gears, second hands and tach needles, power trains and power reserves. Men have…
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MotoringBull & Bravado: Driving the Lamborghini Aventador
Six hundred ninety-one horsepower. All-wheel-drive.