Curbing, Nordschleife.
Photo credit: Laurens Dreist
– Gyro
MkVI GTI edges out Mazdaspeed3 in CD comparo
•November 3, 2009 • 2 CommentsWe don’t love the way either car looks (especially compared to their more understated penultimate counterparts), but we do admire the combination of fun factor, everyday practicality, and value for dollar that each provides.
In our view, it’s hard to do much better than the GTI for a sub-$30K German car with four doors.
Addendum (11/20/2009): CD’s comparo is now online.
– Gyro
Random snap: Audi S6 doing its thing..
•November 2, 2009 • Comments Off on Random snap: Audi S6 doing its thing..
Random snaps: pair of 356 back ends, Paris
•November 2, 2009 • 2 Comments
The Asphalt Jungle: Bad Boy Drive
•November 2, 2009 • 1 CommentThought we’d share Arthur St. Antoine’s paean to LA’s Mulholland Drive from about a year ago (but which we came across only recently). We’ve never done Mulholland, but we think these words – alternating between reverent and cautionary – could apply to any twisty, potentially treacherous local road used by driving enthusiasts as a quick escape from the daily grind. Read on…
At night come the coyotes, and the ghosts. The dusty ridgeline road is quieter now, city lights on either side shimmering below, gentle breeze a perfume of night-blooming jasmine. The coyotes are mostly invisible, silver-fur ninjas prowling the chaparral and the trash bins of nearby gated estates. But the ghosts are everywhere.
Headlamps startle the dark. From around a distant corner a car approaches, engine working hard, beams sweeping like searchlights as the driver tracks the wriggling asphalt. Perhaps it’s James Dean, running-in his new Porsche 550 Spyder just days before, on a country two-lane 200 miles away, he will drive it to his death. Or it could be Steve McQueen, a long day’s filming finally giving way to a rejuvenating sprint in his beloved Jaguar XKSS. Or is it Gary Cooper, the movie idol’s supercharged 1936 Duesenberg SSJ gunning out of a hairpin and nearly nipping the guardrail before roaring off into the dusk?
The right way to do Halloween
•November 1, 2009 • 2 CommentsCelebrating All Hallows’ Eve.
Mud, fog, and rain FTMFW.
– Gyro
What we're listening to now
•October 31, 2009 • Comments Off on What we're listening to nowBoingo + Tim Burton = Happy Halloween!
– Gyro
The rather spectacular racing photography of Camden Trasher
•October 30, 2009 • 1 CommentIt’s pretty hard to elevate this stuff to the level of artform, but we think he achieves it.
See more here.
– Gyro
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