Author Archives: Derek Shiekhi

Five Things that Make the Koenigsegg One:1 Ridiculous

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Outrageously powerful cars are almost always cool, but not all of them are interesting. Christian von Koenigsegg’s newest example of rolling hyperbole is both. This car is so over the top, it doesn’t just make 1,341 horsepower.  It generates one megawatt. Maximum torque from the revised twin-turbo 5.0-liter V8 is 1,011 pound-feet.  And that’s without [...]

Lamborghini’s Image Problems and Growth Plans

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There are “chick” cars, “green” cars, practical cars…and then there are “bad boy” cars.  Apparently, that’s what Lamborghini makes.  The Sant’Agata supercar maker’s former chief operating officer, Michael Lock, recently said, “Lamborghinis are associated with socially illicit behavior.” Leonardo DiCaprio’s performance in “The Wolf of Wall Street” certainly hasn’t helped that perception. Lock also said [...]

Lamborghini’s Image Problems and Growth Plans

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There are “chick” cars, “green” cars, practical cars…and then there are “bad boy” cars.  Apparently, that’s what Lamborghini makes.  The Sant’Agata supercar maker’s former chief operating officer, Michael Lock, recently said, “Lamborghinis are associated with socially illicit behavior.” Leonardo DiCaprio’s performance in “The Wolf of Wall Street” certainly hasn’t helped that perception. Lock also said [...]

Classic Concept: Porsche’s 928 H50

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There was a time—many moons ago—when a four-door Porsche just didn’t exist.  The face-flatteningly fast Panamera certainly changed that.  (Ahem… So did the once-blasphemous Cayenne SUV.)  Long before that car, the 928 was a completely foreign concept to the Teutonic firm.  Its front-mounted eight-cylinder power plant was a radical departure from the rear-engined 911′s flat-six. [...]