by Fast Machines | Aug 5, 2016 | Fast And Dangerous
Posted on 08.4.2016 18:00 by Robert Moore There was once a time when new cars didn’t come with great looking wheels. The norm was black steel wheels with ugly hubcaps or premium wheels that were maybe 16 or 17 inches in size. Nowadays, however, manufacturers have...
by Fast Machines | Aug 5, 2016 | Exterior
England’s history is filled with war. The last 70-plus years of peace and prosperity are an anomaly. Aston Martin, the nation’s only independent carmaker, has similarly weathered strife – often of the financial variety – for most of its existence. Now...
by Fast Machines | Aug 5, 2016 | Fast And Dangerous
The V-12 is a very old, very antiquated answer to a very old, enduring question: How do you make a lot of power smoothly with a reciprocating engine? Nowadays, with balance shafts and miniature-marvel computers, a turbo four-cylinder does a pretty good job, and more...
by Fast Machines | Aug 5, 2016 | Exterior
If we were to describe the 19 months and 40,000 miles we spent with Volkswagen’s seventh-generation Golf hatchback as a romantic story arc, it would be a crushingly normal courtship. As in, Ward-and-June-Cleaver normal—neither a hot ’n’ heavy tryst nor a glum arranged...
by Fast Machines | Aug 5, 2016 | Auto News
Nissan has rolled out the world’s first solid-oxide fuel cell vehicle. The Japanese automaker is the official automotive sponsor for this year’s Olympic Games in Rio 2016, and along with contributing a fleet of cars, it debuted a fuel cell prototype that forms part of...