Lamborghini Formula 1 Engine: Five Years, 49 Starts, No Wins
The Lamborghini Formula 1 engine: five years of Forghieri’s V12, the podium the FIA erased, the Lambo 291 and the 1993 McLaren test with Senna.
Bob Lutz
OPEL GT
Opel GT: the baby Corvette that was never actually a copy Everybody who clapped eyes on an Opel GT in 1968 thought the same thing: somebody shrank a Corvette. The nickname wrote itself. Mini-Vette. Baby Corvette. And for fifty years that lazy shorthand has buried the far better truth, which is that this little German … Read more
BMW 2002 TURBO
BMW 2002 turbo: The Car So Aggressive It Was Debated in the German Parliament There aren’t many production cars that have ended up in a national parliament debate. A war memorial, sure. A political scandal involving a transport minister, occasionally. But an actual production sports car argued over at federal government level for the design … Read more
Dodge Viper: The V10 Snake That Beat Europe at Le Mans
Dodge Viper: a truck V10 reworked in aluminum by Lamborghini, the raw RT/10, the GTS-R that won Le Mans three times and a factory Viper in the Spanish GT series.