Riding Royal Enfield’s Continental GT Café Racer: Taking the Indian motorcycle maker’s 535cc bike on a Californian tour

Riding Royal Enfield's Continental GT Café Racer


To most, the late ’60s and ’70s were the glory days of motorcycle design. America made muscle and the Japanese took over the industry with attractive, simple, reliable machines of all engine sizes. While Triumph’s Bonneville and Honda’s new CB1100 offer something…

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Cool Hunting Video: Porsche Camp 4 Ice Driving: Learning the right—and wrong—ways to drift the 2014 Cayman, 911 Carrera S and 4S

Cool Hunting Video: Porsche Camp 4 Ice Driving


We recently trekked 75 miles north of Montreal to the Mecaglisse motorsport complex in the dead of winter to attend the Porsche Camp 4 Canada ice driving school. On a crisp day that delivered plenty…

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Test Drive: 2014 Mini Cooper Hardtop : Hitting the coastal roads in Puerto Rico with the latest refined yet playful compact

Test Drive: 2014 Mini Cooper Hardtop


by Davis Adams “These bright colors are so hard to manufacture, and we didn’t want a trendy yellow,” explains Annette Baumeister, leader of the color and trim engineering team at Mini’s Munich office. She’s particularly proud…

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Range Rover Sport: Driven Challenges: A monumental drive across the Empty Quarter in Dubai that made history

Range Rover Sport: Driven Challenges


Advertorial content: While you can spend days reading over statistics about torque, horsepower and suspension, the only way to truly gauge a vehicle’s performance is to push its limits in the real world. Land Rover…

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Test Drive: 2015 Volvo V60: Behind the wheel of the brand’s new sport wagon featuring the fully redesigned Drive-E engine

Test Drive: 2015 Volvo V60


For fans of Scandinavian automotive engineering, the past few years have been rocky to say the least—with Volvo’s future uncertain after ownership changes and Saab declaring bankruptcy and ceasing…

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Test Drive: 2014 SRT Viper TA: Hitting the track with the redesigned and rare American powerhouse

Test Drive: 2014 SRT Viper TA


by Davis Adams Following a trip to Willow Springs International Raceway with Chrysler, it’d be remiss not to pay more attention to the 2014 SRT Viper TA. It’s the…

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Test Drive: 2014 Cadillac ELR : A hybrid that marries luxury, efficiency and freedom with a healthy dose of design

Test Drive: 2014 Cadillac ELR


“I don’t want people to buy our cars simply because they’re made in America. I want them to buy them because they’re the best.” -Bob Boniface, Director of Exterior Design Based on…

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Test Drive: 2014 Audi RS7: Gorgeous form updated with face-melting performance

Test Drive: 2014 Audi RS7


The Audi A7 is a masterpiece in form with four distinct options under the hood. While we love the clean diesel A7 TDI for its (up to) 38mpg efficiency, we lust for the 560 horsepower Continue Reading…

Test Drive: 2014 Aston Martin Vanquish Volante: British elegance, raw power and modern styling in the brand’s first full carbon convertible

Test Drive: 2014 Aston Martin Vanquish Volante


“There is no bumper, there’s only form” Marek Reichman, Aston Martin’s design director, explains when briefing us on the 2014 Vanquish Volante in advance of our spirited drive through…

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2014 Corvette Stingray Biometric Test Drive: Behind the wheel and behind the scenes during a truly innovative track trial

2014 Corvette Stingray Biometric Test Drive


I review a lot of cars, but this is the first one that’s reviewed me. Having admired the car when I spoke with Chevrolet’s Tom Peters (its lead designer) when it was announced earlier this year, it was an easy answer when…

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