Panoz: the nicotine-patch millionaire who chain-smoked and saved American racing There’s an irony so cruel at the center of this story that if a novel served it up you’d say the author overreached. The man who made his fortune leading the team that invented the nicotine patch — the device meant to help people quit … Read more
Ford Mustang GT3: the wild horse at Le Mans June 2024. Circuit de la Sarthe. Centennial of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Twenty-four cars line up on the LMGT3 grid. Porsche 911s. Ferrari 296s. Aston Martin Vantages. BMW M4s. McLaren Arturas. Corvette Z06s. Mercedes-AMG GTs. Lexus RC Fs. Mid-engine cars. Rear-engine cars. Mid-rear-engine cars. … Read more
Porsche 928 — The Car That Tried to Kill the 911 Porsche 928: Porsche’s Greatest Failure In the mid-1970s, Porsche made a rational, engineering-driven decision: the 911’s rear-engine, air-cooled layout was a dead end, and the future required a front-engine, water-cooled grand tourer. They were right about the engineering. They were catastrophically wrong about their … Read more
