A Gulf-Livery Porsche.. Hybrid? Caffeine and Octane, December 2015

This past Sunday morning was reminiscent of a calm spring day in north Georgia. The only indication we were close to winter were the plush antlers peeking above the roof of a Ferrari 458. Mild temperatures and bright sunshine brought record numbers of crowds, and that seems to be a trend nowadays for...

Tracing Georgia's Road Racing Roots

The mercury swelled to a balmy 77-degrees-Fahrenheit on Thanksgiving Day, 1908 in Savannah, Georgia. Louis Wagner, a 26-year-old from the northeastern suburbs of Paris, sat alongside 19 other drivers awaiting the start of the third Grand Prix race in history, and the first to be held in the United States....

Adventures in the Beehive State (And a history of Utah's Interstate 70)

"We have to turn back," he said. Asa was right. We pulled off at a rest stop, the only speck of human development for at least twenty miles. But this wasn't like any rest stop I had ever stopped at before. This one overlooked a magnificent valley, and a highway--the one we'd been on-- that zig-zagged...

Every New Car You can Still Buy with a Manual in 2015

A thought occurred to me the other day. It's a recurring thought, in the minds of nearly every car enthusiast. Is the manual transmission as we know it going away? I'm not talking about dual clutch transmissions, or that deplorable "auto-shift manual" nonsense, but true manual cars. Three pedals. We hear over and over again that this idea is dead, at least here in America. The market has spoken:...