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29 Dec
Blog: Garage419
Google's Street View Catches Porsche Engineers Testing in Colorado
It's no secret that car manufacturers do most of their new car testing on the public roads. Spy photographers get good money for shots of a new car even if covered in a thick layer of camouflage. Sweden provides the perfect location for cold weather testing and the Nurburgring can replicate
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23 Dec
Blog: Garage419
Ruminations on the Death of the New NSX
Is the economy really so terrible now that even the profitable car companies think the world doesn't need their halo cars? I've just read an article over at EGMCartech.com that Honda is stopping development of their new NSX Supercar immediately. The reason? To focus on the hydrogen fuel-cell FCX
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02 Dec
Blog: Garage419
2008 Volvo XC70 T6 Review
My Mother's argument for buying her first (of seven) Lexus RX300 back in 1999 was that "it's a truck that drives like a car!." And to some extent, she was right. Despite the big tires, the RX's "carlike" performance was impressive. What's it like to drive the 2008 Volvo XC70? Exactly the oppos
