by Fast Machines | Aug 12, 2014 | Spares
Ferrari is well known for making some of the world’s most beautiful cars. But, to me, its most gorgeous cars are those that don’t fit the popular image of a Ferrari, that of a curvy red sports car. As with most Ferraris that aren’t purely racers, the...
by Fast Machines | Aug 12, 2014 | Exterior
It’s Monday, and that means it’s time to present this week’s shifter. You’ll have until mid-day Wednesday to identify the make and model of the vehicle whence this shifter came. The first person to respond correctly in the Backfires section below will win a Save the...
by Fast Machines | Aug 12, 2014 | Auto News
We’re back again today at our home test track and working to answer one question: what is the best performance car for under $30,000? As a reminder, we’ve got the Subaru WRX, Ford Focus ST, Ford Fiesta ST, Honda Civic Si, Nissan Juke NISMO RS, Mazda MX-5 and the Scion...
by Fast Machines | Aug 12, 2014 | Fast And Dangerous
The coming of the fourth-generation Mazda MX-5 Miata is fast approaching, and two very different sneak peeks of the new sports car have surfaced on the same day. The first preview comes from Mazda and takes the form of a teaser photo of the 2016 Miata hiding under a...
by Fast Machines | Aug 12, 2014 | Exterior
At the second annual There Goes the Neighborhood 24 Hours of LeMons (and our sixth visit to New Jersey Motorsports Park since our first race there in 2011), we saw numerous movie-themed teams and our first four-billion-lap penalty on Friday, German cars pushed...