Supercars in Geneva, Nothing to Dream About
21 Feb 2014, 13:26 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / With the Geneva Motor Show just around the apex, there are quite a few supercars waiting to kickstart Spring. Each one of them is a horsepower explosion ready to generate tons of smoking rides and d...
BMW’s Slow Death, the Final Nail: 2 Series Active Tourer
14 Feb 2014, 16:23 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / This is it. Goodbye BMW, it’s been a real pleasure having your rear diffs guiding me through the corners, but this is all I can stand. A front-wheel drive MPV is simply too much for me to take...
Should Ford Revive the Ranger in the US?
11 Feb 2014, 16:58 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Today's US compact pickup truck market is a two-way battle with just the Toyota Tacoma and the Nissan Frontier available across dealerships. The segment used to be livelier half a decade ago, w...
On Bigger Is Better and Less Is More
5 Feb 2014, 15:45 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / I have to give credit to the Harley-Davidson marketing department for being a bunch of truly resourceful fellows. The ease of switching lanes, so to speak, is absolutely stunning and is also good fo...
The Subaru WRX STI, Kia GT4 and Lying Through Concepts
26 Jan 2014, 18:28 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Car shows have changed from being events for us aficionados to billion dollar venues covered by the regular media. “This is the Golf worth $1 million”, “Here’s the 800 horsep...
Do We Ride or Do We Trail?
17 Jan 2014, 15:15 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Some will get kind of mad at me for this piece, but it only reflects the reality of actually being a motorcyclist... which involves riding. Motorcyclists DO ride, and this should say pretty much eve...
Some Idiots Never Get It
14 Jan 2014, 16:55 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / I know that this piece will attract some bashing, but maybe that's the way things must happen. It looks like some idiots never get it, at least not until they get arrested and receive fines lar...
Indian and Victory, the Kwisatz Haderach?
10 Jan 2014, 15:23 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / 2014 and beyond will surely bring a lot of interesting things in the American Cruiser market segment. That is, Indian Motorcycles is back with a bang, and it looks like the reborn brand is gaining m...
BMW’s Autonomous Drifting Is Wrong: Ultimate Self-Driving Machines
8 Jan 2014, 11:04 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / There’s a new game in Vegas this week and it has nothing to do with the casinos. Instead, the hype comes from BMW, which used the CES to showcase a host of autonomous driving tech. For me, the...
Is the MotoGP Show Killing Technological Spearheading?
7 Jan 2014, 16:43 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / A lot of things are changing in MotoGP, but it looks like not every manufacturer is exactly happy with this, and Honda has always been the most vocal of the MSMA against too many changes that Dorna ...
Motorsport Is (No Longer) Dangerous: Schumacher's Ski Drama
30 Dec 2013, 16:33 UTC · By: Alex Oagana / If I was a cynic – which I usually am, to the point of misanthropy sometimes – I would probably start this mild harangue by quoting a non-sympathetic person who recently tweeted “...
2015 Lexus RC F: It Could Be the First Cool Lexus Ever
28 Dec 2013, 16:43 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Over the years, there have been plenty of excellent Lexus cars. The hybrid RX was probably the first large SUV to deliver car-like fuel economy and it also looks quite sharp. The GS is also among th...
Here I Am, Rock You Like a Huracan!
20 Dec 2013, 22:16 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / When the Scorpions released Rock You Like a Hurricane in 1984, I don't think they expected it to be used as a reference to an Italian supercar three decades later. And yet here we are, facing o...
Helmets versus Luck
20 Dec 2013, 15:38 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / To be honest, I really do believe that the "war" between the state which tries to make helmets mandatory while riding a motorcycle and those opposing this has no foreseeable future. Even t...
Why Must Ducati Change
16 Dec 2013, 16:04 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Ducati is one of the last "big boys" still firmly anchored in the high-end market, but it looks like change is mercilessly forcing Borgo Panigale to revise the course of action. Maybe not ...
2015 BMW M3 and M4: They’re Much Cooler Than You Think
15 Dec 2013, 23:56 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Just like with the new Porsche 911 back in 2011, I have been following the F80 M3 and its newborn brother the M4 for more than a year ahead of its official debut. Before there was ever a press relea...
Blame It on the Rider
13 Dec 2013, 16:03 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / I've seen a lot of completely idiot scooter crashes lately and maybe this is why I tend to rant a bit on the matter. I've also talked to some of my riding fellows, both seasoned ones and g...
How the 2015 Mustang Stole Christmas
8 Dec 2013, 11:11 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / A couple of months back, when the first renderings - based on what Ford had shown journalists during the official 2015 Mustang peek - became available, reactions to the new pony car were more on the...
Brand My Undies. And My...
29 Nov 2013, 13:06 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / I know this piece might sting a bit, but life's not always made of what one wants to hear, solely. This is not even a matter of right and wrong, it's just taking a look at how things are, ...
Gone in 11 Minutes
27 Nov 2013, 17:18 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / 11 minutes is all it takes for one bike to be stolen in the US, barely longer than it took back in 2011. Still, one motorcycle is being stolen in the US every 11 minutes or so, 2012 statistics ...