by Fast Machines | Oct 26, 2013 | Fast And Dangerous
Gordon E. Moore, co-founder of Intel, observed that transistors on circuit boards double every two years (Moore’s Law). When formulating this theory, Moore obviously wasn’t thinking about the car industry, which has gone from completely mechanical to software...
by Fast Machines | Oct 26, 2013 | Exterior
Hal Needham always had the top two or three buttons of his shirt undone, wore fancy tight jeans, preferred to have a cowboy hat on his head, hid his eyes behind tinted lenses, and at one time roomed with Burt Reynolds. He spoke with a twangy Southern drawl, never...
by Fast Machines | Oct 26, 2013 | Auto News
The three-member McLaren family will soon expand to four, with an “entry-level” sports car model set to directly take on the Porsche 911. The newest member of the expanding McLaren lineup is expected to be called the P13 and sit just shy of the MP4-12C in the brand’s...
by Fast Machines | Oct 26, 2013 | Fast And Dangerous
Leaders of the carmaking racket convene to knock around golf balls and talk shop. From the November 2013 Issue of Car and Driver In the years before I met him at the University of Michigan in 1989, my friend Mike was probably the only professional Jewish foreign-car...
by Fast Machines | Oct 26, 2013 | Formula One Blog
That Webber was just a tenth slower than Hamilton on a tyre generally regarded as being around a second a lap slower than the soft speaks volumes for the performance of the Red Bull around this circuit so far. “So far it’s a brilliant weekend. The car was...