Nismo’s approach to the 370Z can be captured in a single word: kaizen. Kaizen simply means “change for better”. In the corporate world, kaizen has become MBA jargon synonymous with continuous improvement as it pertained to Japanese auto manufacturing. As a philosophy, it refers to the practice of […]
The market is filled with compact vehicles, leaving consumers with plenty of choices. Why choose the Hyundai Elantra? In today’s day and age, frequent restyling and a long list of standard features are required to maintain consumer interest. Although the current generation Elantra debuted in 2011, Hyundai has […]
List a few iconic cars. Perhaps you thought about the Ford Mustang, the Chevrolet Corvette, or the VW Beetle. Did you consider the VW Golf? Maybe you should. Perhaps not the original hatchback, the Golf is none-the-less the progenitor of all modern hot hatches. It’s dominance paved the […]
Halfway up the mountain, I remembered. I remembered the pleasure of honest steering as I sliced into a hairpin. I remembered the confident click of a well-tune gear lever as I powered up the next incline. I remembered the proper balance of a well-sprung sports car as I […]
The American sedan is dying. Full size sedans are downsizing their powerplants, shuffling their drive wheels, and wholly being usurped by crossovers. The era of big, rear-drive sedans with large displacement V8s seems to be waning. Ford has been out of the game for years. The Chevrolet SS, […]
The QX70 is the new name for the old FX. You’ll most likely recognize the car on sight before remembering its new name, a product of the seemingly haphazard renaming of Infiniti’s entire product lineup last year. In spite of the name change, the QX70 doesn’t lack any of […]
“Do you have any experience in a supercar?” That’s a loaded question. Every enthusiast hopes to get behind the wheel of a supercar one day. But the question itself implies that driving a supercar is very different from any other car. And you might think it is. You […]
Station wagons are an endangered species. Mercedes is the last German manufacturers to offer its mid-size sedan as a wagon in the US. The 5 Series Touring and A6 Avant no longer grace our shores. Other competitors, the CTS Wagon and TSX Wagon, have fallen by the wayside […]
Bold. Bold is the best way that Toyota can describe the new Camry. We can’t completely disagree…in regards to its new styling. We got our first looks at the car when we were sitting at the reveal in New York last year. Visually, we could tell the Camry […]
For 2015, VW has given the Touareg a refresh. The best way to combat an image problem is to re-work the image. But what changes have been made? They may be slight, but a number of exterior design enhancements give the VW a more up-scale appearance. They updated […]
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