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St. Patrick’s Day Comes Early Thanks to the Latest Porsche 911 by Gunther Werks
The phrase “green with envy” has moved so far past the point of cliché that it’s effectively impossible to justify using it. However, when an Irish Green Gunther Werks 993-series Porsche 911 shows up, well, our jaws drop, our eyes widen, and our hearts are struck with nothing but pure, unadulterated want. We’ve covered a few of Gunther Werks’ remastered 911s in the past, and we continue to believe this tuner company is simply unable to disappoint us. As you may or may not know, the SoCal-based company’s creations start life as a regular 993-generation Porsche 911. The engineers at Gunther Werks then take the entire thing apart. That means every nut, bolt, body panel, electrical gizmo, and mechanical do-dad is stripped away leaving just the body-in-white....
Tesla Is Building a Giant Battery at a Secretive Facility in Texas
Texans have good reason to be concerned with their energy grid after it failed spectacularly this winter. Happily, Ford owners and dealers came to the rescue with their F-150 PowerBoost hybrids, and now Tesla is building what appears to be a more permanent solution. According to a report by Bloomberg Green, a company called Gambit Energy Storage, which is a subsidiary of Tesla, is building a 100-megawatt energy storage facility about 40 miles south of Houston. Such a system could produce enough power to run roughly 20,000 homes on a hot summer day. See all 13 photos Tesla already has other mega-batteries in operation, including a 20-megawatt facility east of Los Angeles and a 100-megawatt unit in Australia. Such battery systems serve as buffers for renewable energy sources—for example, sto...
Super-Wide and Super-’70s: Freiburger’s Best Internet Find Ever
Who said buying a project vehicle sight unseen was a bad idea? David Freiburger and Mike Finnegan say it all the time, but they usually include a version of, “Do as I say, not as I do,” somewhere while they walk up to their most recent sight-unseen purchase. But this is Roadkill, and it’s business as usual with this most amazing of project vehicles: Welcome the ultra-wide, couldn’t-be-more-’70s 2nd-gen Camaro to the Roadkill fleet! We know, it’s beautiful. Yes, that is (as near as makes no difference) three whole feet of tire section in the rear. No, it isn’t a Pro Street build. No, that doesn’t make it a Pro Touring build, either. So what is this shining example of 1970s ingenuity? Beside being Freiburger’s latest automotive infatuatio...
2022 Ford F-Series Super Duty First Look: Working Smarter
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. This applies to the 2022 Ford F-Series Super Duty, a solid hauler that has absolutely nothing in need of fixing. Since the Super Duty received most of its major upgrades for the 2020 model year, the truck will mostly carry-over for 2022, which isn’t a bad thing. It will, however, get infused with some (more) cool technology upgrades. If anyone thinks of new three-quarter- and full-ton trucks as rudimentary, then, well, you’re wrong. These trucks are as technologically-advanced as any automobile on the road and continue to get boosted with more and more techy goodness. Same Super Duty Swagger The F-Series Super Duty—consisting of the F-250, F-350, and F-450—packs a multitude of best-in-class towing, hauling, and performance numbers, w...
This Like-New 1996 Ford Mustang SVT Cobra Is a “Mystic” Unicorn
There’s sometimes great irony in a car’s fate. Back in 1996, Ford blew our minds by mothballing the 5.0-liter V-8 and introducing the so-called “Modular” engine family, including the adrenaline injection device that nestled under the hood of the SVT Cobra: a DOHC 4.6-liter V-8 producing a thumping 305 hp. Peakier than its predecessors, the SVT Cobra begged contemporary testers—and, presumably, even strong-willed drivers—to wring it out. Not this one. It may have tempted its owners, who did not submit. As an inanimate object, it couldn’t have hoped to be exercised, although it’s easy to anthropomorphize cars and imagine it to be so. Ever since this Cobra rolled off the line, its previous owners have managed to put just 769 miles on its odometer. That̵...
Portraits of Women and Their Porsches
Flip through the pages of the last 10 to 15 issues of any popular car magazine (or scroll their websites) and you’ll be hard-pressed to find more than a handful of stories featuring a woman. This despite the fact there are countless women who are huge enthusiasts and work equally as hard—and are just as passionate about cars—as their male counterparts. See all 75 photos It’s been painfully obvious to me for some time now that the stories of these women have been dramatically underrepresented by the automotive media. (If I can be proven wrong, I’m glad; that means we’re moving in the right direction.) This alarming deficit in coverage led me to seek out females expressing their enthusiasm, to give them the opportunity to share their stories, and to amplify voices tha...
Is Top Gear America Binge-Worthy?
Now that the first six episodes of Top Gear America are live and streamable—commercial free, exclusively on the MotorTrend App—a question has arisen: Is Top Gear America binge-worthy? Obviously, we think so, but we asked the overlords of the interwebs all about binge-worthy shows, just in case. What makes a show binge-worthy? First, we need to define binge-watching. It’s generally agreed that you need to watch two or three episodes of one show in one sitting to be considered binging. Whether it’s mysterious, thrilling or hilarious, binge-worthy shows always have a hook you just can’t pull out. You know that lie we all tell ourselves? “Just one more episode”—yeah, that never happens. Can a Nissan 350Z go overlanding? Was Rob Corddry OK after inhaling all those ...
The Mansory Stallone GTS Is a Ferrari 812 GTS for the “Fast & Furious” Crowd
You gotta hand it to Mansory because the outfit’s creations are never boring. Polarizing, for sure. But never boring. In fact, the brashness is endearing. Take the new 2021 Mansory Stallone GTS—no relation to that guy, but of some relation to previous Stallones, such as the 812 Superfast-based one that debuted back in 2018 at the Geneva show. For 2021, that car is getting a drop-top counterpart called the Stallone GTS. Still based on the 812, albeit the GTS version, it’s … something else. See all 25 photos Let’s take a quick second to remind ourselves what’s underneath the Mansory treatment here: the Ferrari 812 GTS, the first V-12-powered series-production convertible from Maranello in decades. Its hardtop twin, the 812 Superfast, stunned us with its quickness...
Aston Martin Boss Reveals Plans for a Fully Electric Performance Car and SUV
Lawrence Stroll, executive chairman of Aston Martin, revealed to the Financial Times that the British brand has plans for two electric vehicles. One will be a performance car, the other an SUV. None of this is terribly surprising considering the company’s pledge to phase out non-electrified internal combustion engines by 2030. But the details are intriguing, especially when you consider Aston’s track record. See all 77 photos Onto the vehicles: Stroll told FT the performance vehicle will be a proper front-engined car, specifically a “version of a DB11/Vantage”. This should be good news for enthusiasts given the propensity of those cars to thrill. The SUV will be, well, an SUV—although it’s unclear if it’ll be a BEV variant of the DBX or another...
2022 Genesis GV70 Luxury SUV’s First MPG Figures Revealed
Looking as hot as any compact luxury SUV on the market right now, the first-ever Genesis GV70 will make its grand arrival on showroom floors this year as a 2022 model. While Genesis has kept the on-sale date and pricing for its second SUV after the larger GV80 under wraps, we do know that two engine choices will be available. But the newest member of the luxury Korean brand has some fierce competition that includes the Audi Q5, BMW X3, and Volvo X60. We here at MotorTrend cannot wait to see how the GV70 stacks up to those rivals in a broad sense, but we now have some hint of how it’ll do on the fuel economy battlefield. See all 2 photos That is because official EPA ratings for the V-6-powered GV70 were just announced. The all-wheel-drive Genesis GV70 equipped with a 3....
The Lamborghini Diablo Is the 1990s Supercar Legend Your Dreams Deserve
Talk about big shoes to fill. As the Lamborghini Countach entered its twilight years in the late 1980s, the company had the onerous task of designing a car that exceeded the visual, aural, and dynamic sucker-punch provided by its iconic neck-snapping V-12 super-wedge. The new Lambo had to vaporize eyebrows and buckle knees at a thousand feet if it was to be labeled as anything other than a letdown. Yeah, well, you can see where this is going. Despite a top speed of over 200 mph—only the second production car to do so—and being far easier to drive than its pappy, the Diablo is a bit of a middle-child. As far as the big Lambos go—of which there have been only five to date—the Diablo is relatively unloved. See all 19 photos We must stress that all of this slight negativity is best read throug...
Volkswagen Takes Fresh Swing at Tesla With “Project Trinity”
Volkswagen just teased the new venture with some promising claims. Project Trinity will result in a sedan with “high range, extremely short charging times, and revolutionary production.” What this all means, of course, is still quite unclear. But it does leave room for a heck of a lot of speculation. Let us peer once more into the (often flawed) automotive industry crystal ball. Right now, the only EV Americans can buy from VW is the ID4. At full tilt, with a 125-kW charger handy, that electrified SUV’s battery will charge from 5 percent full to 80 percent in roughly 40 minutes. In isolation that sounds pretty good, but compare that to what you can get out of a Tesla Supercharger, and the VW loses out. The current Tesla Model S, when hooked up to a V3 Supercharger station...
