Monthly Archives: March 2014

Beautiful Twin Turbo LS1 Hits the Dyno

Sometimes, looking good and going fast go hand in hand. I’d argue there’s a beauty in the symmetry of a well laid out engine bay like this one. Everything is clean, which helps, but the star of the show is the two twins sitting up front. They’re like trumpets heralding the arrival of horsepower. Each [...]

Are You Ready for an All-Wheel-Drive Corvette?

The Bugatti Veyron and the Porsche 918 Spyder, two of the most advanced hypercars ever, have four driven wheels. Motor Trend’s Best Driver’s Car, the Porsche 911 Carrera 4S, is all-wheel drive. Audi’s quattro permanent all-wheel-drive system was deemed an “unfair advantage” and banned from use in road racing. AMG is building more all-wheel-drive Benzes […]

Tech Thread Spotlight: Solving UConnect Issues in Your Dodge

Chrysler’s UConnect system brings in-car connectivity to a whole new level in almost all new Dodge products but like all modern technology – Uconnect can have its problems. The biggest of those problems is an inability to connect to the driver’s cell phone as a cell phone connection is vital if you want to use ...

Supercar Shootout Round Three! Ferrari Enzo vs Mercedes SLS AMG Black Series

UPDATE - Round Two Winner: The Hennessey Venom GT! (by two votes!!!) Ah yes… March. I’ve never been one to pay much attention to March madness, when it comes to college basketball, but I do like the idea of a good tournament. So instead of blathering on-and-on about basketball on a car site, we’re doing our [...]

1984 PPG Pace Car is Fifth Corvette Lifted to Safety

1984 Corvette PPG Pace Car Recovery (Featured)

Five down, three to go until the retrieval process is complete for “The Great Eight,” the name given to the coveted Corvettes swallowed by the sinkhole. Workers pulled the one-millionth Corvette and the severely damaged 1984 PPG Pace Car from the hole yesterday at the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky. The construction team now will […]

Hyundai’s Passocorto Preview Aims for Geneva

Historically speaking, we don’t cover Hyundai on 6SpeedOnline, save for the odd race article or this hilarious little gem. However, here is something that came through the pipeline from the good people at Road and Track – a glimpse at Hyundai’s next serious step into the performance market, with a mid-engine sports car with exotic aesthetics. [...]

Five Things that Make the Koenigsegg One:1 Ridiculous

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 [...]