Dapper Drift: Sliding In Elegance
If you read through Trevor’s and my coverage of Winter Jam a few weeks ago, you may remember a certain odd-ball car in a sea of Nissan S13s and BMW E36s. No, not the ’80s Thunderbird, Mitsubishi...
View ArticleBreaking Records With Minimal Effort, The AMG Way
Watching a Formula One race in person has always been on my bucket list. I haven’t made it to one yet, but couple of weeks ago at Sonoma Speed Festival, I was finally able to get a small glimpse of...
View Article24 Hours Of Insanity At The Nürburgring
It’s the Saturday afternoon at the Nürburgring 24 Hour. The cars have qualified, fans are pouring in by the thousands and the paddock is alive with the buzz of over 150 teams making their way onto the...
View ArticleArt Of Noise: The Technical Garage Sasaki Story
You can start by watching something completely necessary – like crushing coins with a 150-ton hydraulic press – and before you know it, you’re deep in Area 51 conspiracy theories with a sidebar...
View ArticleThis Is What They Mean By ‘Built Not Bought’
It’s not uncommon to see people using the phrase ‘built not bought’ in social posts about their cars, but often you’re only looking at basic modifications like wheels, suspension and intake and exhaust...
View ArticleThe Toyota Workhorse With An AMG Heart
I did, but I’ll admit that when I first laid eyes on his Toyota Hilux, I didn’t really take too much notice of it. It was only when I saw the ‘AMG HLUX’ numberplate and then the ‘6.3 AMG’ badge on the...
View ArticleDoes A Proper Sports Car Need To Be Manual?
Over the last couple of decades, many auto manufacturers have decided to make the choice for us, racing to develop the fastest-shifting dual-clutch transmissions. Then ZF hit back with their 8-speed...
View ArticleA V12-Themed Garage House With A V8 Surprise
These Garage House stories have been so much fun to hunt out and put together. And it’s not just the garages and their content, it’s meeting the owners themselves. I see a lot of their character...
View ArticleWhen One Mercedes-Benz Is Never Enough…
Blakley Leonard is a man who loves Mercedes-Benz. He eats, sleeps and breathes rare examples, most notably pre-merger AMG cars. That is not to say he doesn’t have some other cool models in this...
View ArticleRunning In The ’80s: A 560 SEC AMG Wide-Body
The base Mercedes-Benz 560 SEC was impressive on its own, but with AMG’s touches the model is on a whole other level. It’s mind-blowing to think this was happening back in the 1980s as well; it seems...
View ArticleAn Introduction To Retro German Tuning Culture
This is not a piece about fast cars, or a race event. Far from it. See, I am an enormous fan of German car tuning of the ’80s, ’90s and ’00s, as well as the culture that surrounds it, and I’d like to...
View ArticleFive Standouts From Kustomfest 2022
These two W108 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLs immediately grabbed my attention on entering the venue, so I grabbed a few shots right then and there. There is something so right about big Benz sedans from the...
View ArticleMechatronik: Inside The Mercedes-Benz Masters
Back in the late ’90s, a passionate, graduate electrical engineer by the name of Frank Rickert was working at AMG’s Affalterbach plant when he had an idea. Frank saw an opportunity to take extensive...
View ArticleNot Your Typical E36: A Brief History Lesson In AMG
But what if I were to tell you there was an actual model called the E36 from a German manufacturer? Confused? Well, let me help you out. Take off your Lederhosen, we’re not in Bavaria anymore. Instead...
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