September 2006
tBlog - Road Test: Ferrari 612 Scaglietti
Measuring 193 inches long by 77 inches wide, it shades slightly more pavement than does a Lexus LX 470 sport/utility. Even in this day when everything seems to come jumbo, supersize, or el grande, our first glance at this flagship caused us to ask: "Est tu, Ferrari?" Still, we tried to open our minds as the director of product strategy, Giuseppe Bonollo, laid out the case for his big new baby, the 612 Scaglietti (say it like an Italophone: say-CHEN-to do-DI-chi skahl-YET-ee). It seems the design brief was to build a car capable of blistering Ferrari-grade performance in a package that could comfortably carry four actual adult humans--a feat no four-seatbelt Ferrari in history has managed.
August 2006
tBlog - First Russian car that can compete with Ferrari
The Impression is one of the first cars to emerge from Russo-Baltique in over 80 years. And while the first impression we get is that it's to daring and exotic for production, a very limited series of cars is available. They will be delivered at a rate of three per year and with a price tag of 50 million rubles or 1.8 million dollars! At that price
July 2006
tBlog - The Ten Most Expensive Cars In The World
People who don't have billions of dollars tend to think lavishly about what they would do with that kind of money. Car writers especially get this question: "Why doesn't Bill Gates just spend $1 billion to have his very own car made for him?" Well, we usually answer such questions very politely--or scurry off to the other end of the cocktail party
tBlog - New Car: Jaguar XJ220
The Jaguar XJ220 was a supercar produced by Jaguar in collaboration with Tom Walkinshaw Racing between 1992 and 1994. It held the record for the highest top speed of a production car (217 mph) until the arrival of the McLaren F1 in 1994. The XJ220 is now remembered today as one of the most notorious automotive flops of all time.
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