Now that Ferrari unveiled the Spider version of its exceptional 458 Italia at Frankfurt Auto Show last month, the gentlemen from Turin don’t want you to forget all about the original. So Ferrari invited Charlie Meadows to fly to the car’s birthplace in Modena and testdrive the car named after the country from which it […]

Oklahoma-based coachbuilder Classic Recreations has been building modern high performance cars with vintage shells for over 10 years now, perfecting their craft to the point where their cars are competing in motorsport events with contemporary vehicles. Their latest and greatest for 2011 is the G.T.500CR Venom, a 780 horsepower high performance workhorse based on the […]

Some boys just never grow up. Just ask Dutchman Barry Bosman, an avid Lego builder who recently built a fully functional V8 engine from 2,817 individual parts. CAD software was used in the design process and completion required LEGOs from specialty retailers. A self-proclaimed AFOL (“Adult Fan of LEGO”), Bossman is a veteran of the tiny […]

The saddest aspect of GM’s burying the Pontiac badge last year was surely the end of the proud Firebird lineage. After all its predecessor, the GTO, was the first muscle car ever made — the brainchild of Pontiac chief engineer John DeLorean when he had the epiphany of stuffing a Pontiac Bonneville’s V8 engine into […]