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The idea was so simple, so perfect: take Porsche's most powerful street engine and drop it into their lightweight mid-engine platform. Dominate Ferrari. Make grown men swoon. That was the concept behind the Porsche 916, an extremely potent variation on the company's low-cost joint venture with... View Post -
Minichamps is one of the oldest, most respected names in the model car business, with a history reaching back to Germany's Danhausen trading company in the 1920s. Initially a sort of general store, Danhausen's focus narrowed over the decades to toys, eventually becoming an exclusive vendor of hi... View Post -
I went to college in the mid-1990s in a small town in Arkansas, where the most exotic car one might expect to see was an IROC-Z, or maybe my roommate's Jetta. As a committed car freak with a taste for high-end sporting machinery, there wasn't much driving around town to stoke the fires of my pas... View Post
