Author Archives: Derek Shiekhi

No Turbo Lag in the New California T?

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Ferrari says the blown 3.9-liter V8 in the California T is the “first turbocharged engine with zero turbo lag.”  You would think that a company that makes championship-caliber Formula 1 racers, famously red sports cars that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars would be soft-spoken and modest.  Go figure. Automakers and tuners have been turbocharging [...]

No Turbo Lag in the New California T?

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Ferrari says the blown 3.9-liter V8 in the California T is the “first turbocharged engine with zero turbo lag.”  You would think that a company that makes championship-caliber Formula 1 racers, famously red sports cars that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars would be soft-spoken and modest.  Go figure. Automakers and tuners have been turbocharging [...]

The R129 SL Turns 25

Mercedes-Benz 300 SL (R 129, 1989 bis 2001), erste Generation (1989 bis 1995).

Whenever I watch television from the 1980s, I almost always end up saying, “Ugh … the clothing from back then looks awful!”  (I’m talking about you, “Golden Girls”!)  Couple loud colors and big shoulder pads with puffy, teased hairstyles, and the Reagan era comes across as an optical atrocity.  Some of the cars of the […]

The Ferrari F12 Tests Jeremy Clarkson

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Perhaps Jeremy Clarkson has finally had too much of a good thing.  For years, he’s been driving exotics such as the Lamborghini Gallardo and the Corvette ZR1.  He’s even been behind the wheels of the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren and the Bugatti Veyron in cross-country races. The outspoken Englishman recently reviewed the Ferrari F12berlinetta, a car [...]