Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione: The Alfa That Alfa Romeo Didn’t Build America got 84 of them. Maybe 90. Nobody has nailed that number down either, and that turns out to be the whole story of this car. The Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione was the car that brought Alfa Romeo back to the United States after … Read more
Ferrari built an SUV designed to hide the SUV Ferrari spent years swearing it would never build one. Then it built one, refused to call it an SUV, and invented a three-letter acronym rather than say the word out loud. FUV. Ferrari Utility Vehicle. Easy to laugh at. Marketing departments do this all the time. … Read more
Alfa Romeo 75: The Last Real Alfa Romeo, the Car That Closed a Century of Independent Marque There are three things any serious Alfisti will tell you about the Alfa Romeo 75 before you’ve finished saying hello: One: the 75 is the last Alfa Romeo with transaxle architecture in the marque’s history. After the 75, in 1992, no … Read more
Ford Mustang GTD: the Mustang that wasn’t supposed to exist Three hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars. For a Mustang. Read it again. No typo. A Ford Mustang costs, today, more than a Porsche 911 GT3 RS. More than a base McLaren 750S. More than an Aston Martin Vantage did not long ago. And the guy … 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
The Alfa Romeo GTV6: The Last True Alfa Before the Dark Ages When Italy Still Built Driver’s Cars In 1980, Alfa Romeo did something that seems impossibly romantic in hindsight: they took a perfectly good sports coupé and installed one of the greatest engines ever built. The engine was Giuseppe Busso‘s 2.5-liter V6. The car … Read more
