Parking is Equal to Six Push-ups
The Mustang's new-found handling ability demanded a greater revision of the engineering department's philosophy than it did of suspension parts. Kicking the understeering habit is no easi...
2004 Rolls-Royce Phantom – First Drive Review
If Sir Henry Royce and the Hon. Charles Rolls had foreseen a day when stewardship of the world's most prestigious nameplate would pass to a company headquartered in Munich, they might have...
Interior and Transmission
The hard top is also easy to install, having two clamps at the front and three bolts and two locating dowels at the rear. It is well finished and padded, and provides unobstructed vision. L...
1959 Chevrolet Corvette – Road Test – Car Hutt Reviews
Originally published in Sports Cars Illustrated in March 1959.With each annual change, Zora Arkus-Duntov, the Corvette's godfather, has emphasized performance improvements. His theory is th...
The Basic Car is Excellent
Trunk space is limited largely by the shape: wide and flat. A couple of suitcases will fit in but must be quite thin. The push-button door latch has a handle that will only accommodate fi...
The Greatest C-Class?
Under the revised sheetmetal in front is a new strut suspension using two separate lower links instead of a control arm, which is said to provide better energy absorption in a crash. The r...
Service and Performance
At 15,763 miles, we noticed a bulge in the sidewall of the left front tire (it turned out to be the result of a nail). The right rear tire had developed a slow leak. We had to replace both ...
2004 Mazda RX-8 – Long-Term Road Test – Car Hutt Reviews
Our long-term 2004 Mazda RX-8 traveled exactly 451 miles before the first thing went kablooey. Distant cheering could be heard from the Lincoln-Mercury, Volvo, and Mazda dealer across town....
1966 Ford Shelby Mustang GT350-H – Road Test
Cigarette butts in the ashtray of a rented car? Not when we rented a Shelby Mustang GT 350H from Hertz. No—sir we found cigarette butts in the rear brake scoop. What other rent-a-car ...
The Grown-Up Sports Car
So we braced ourselves when we stuck our editorial foot into the first production GT 500. And when it only turned 15.0 at 95, we were a bit disappointed. That’s only 2/10ths of a second qu...