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2 days ago | 
id.motor1.com | Chris Rosales
Kami adalah penggemar berat Aston Martin Vantage yang baru. Mobil ini berhasil mencapai putaran terakhir Cool Car Cup perdana kami tahun lalu, namun dikalahkan oleh mobil hibrida V-12 bertenaga 1.001 tenaga kuda, yaitu Lamborghini Revuelto. Saya memilih Vantage; ini adalah supercar yang dapat melayang sesuai perintah, namun juga dapat melaju dengan tepat di jalan ngarai. Mobil ini garang, indah, dan terkalibrasi dengan baik.
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3 days ago | 
motor1.com | Chris Rosales
We're big fans of the new Aston Martin Vantage. It made it to the very last rounds of our inaugural Cool Car Cup last year, only to be beaten out by the 1,001 horsepower V-12 hybrid lunatic that is the Lamborghini Revuelto. I voted for the Vantage; it's a driver's supercar that threatens to drift on command but also precisely carves up a canyon road. It's brutish, beautiful, and well-calibrated.
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5 days ago | 
motor1.com | Chris Rosales
It’s really hard to argue with a Porsche 911. Even though the new, manual only, base-engined Carrera T now costs what a 911 GT3 used to cost, the increase in price comes with old 911 GT3 performance. Then Porsche has this special talent—charging more for less equipment. Because the Carrera T gets less engine, an old-fashioned manual, and some lightweight parts, it can cost as much as a 911 with 100 more horsepower. But that would be missing the point of the Carrera T.
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6 days ago | 
au.motorsport.com | Chris Rosales
Walking around the IMSA paddock with a sports car legend like Patrick Long is an exercise in fascinating patience. Even though the two-time Le Mans class winning, three-time ALMS championship-winning Porsche factory driver is four years post-retirement, it’s like Long never left racing. Fans, former teammates, and old colleagues all stop and chat, and Long has time for all of them, even under the blazing Long Beach sun.
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6 days ago | 
sports.yahoo.com | Chris Rosales
Walking around the IMSA paddock with a sports car legend like Patrick Long is an exercise in fascinating patience. Even though the two-time Le Mans class winning, three-time ALMS championship-winning Porsche factory driver is four years post-retirement, it’s like Long never left racing. Fans, former teammates, and old colleagues all stop and chat, and Long has time for all of them, even under the blazing Long Beach sun.
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2 weeks ago | 
motor1.com | Chris Rosales
Photo by: Chris Rosales / Motor1 Big brake kits (BBK) are one of the coolest mods you can add to a car. It says many distinguished things about the owner of the car and the purpose of the car itself. Yes, the BBK offers an increase in stopping power, but it also provides a major boost to the ever-evasive swag. In the case of my 2023 Subaru BRZ, which I bought to make into the ultimate new track car, a BBK was always in the cards. It was just a matter of choosing which.
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2 weeks ago | 
id.motor1.com | Chris Rosales
Ada banyak keriuhan ketika BMW mengumumkan bahwa saudara kandung Supra, Z4 akan mendapatkan transmisi manual. Untuk pertama kalinya, satu-satunya mobil sport sejati BMW diluncurkan tanpa transmisi manual, dan tidak ada kabar apakah mobil ini akan mendapatkannya. Setelah bertahun-tahun bungkam, BMW Z4 baru mendapatkannya setelah Toyota Supra mendapatkan transmisi manual yang telah lama dinanti-nantikan dan populer. Namun paket "Handschalter" yang baru ini tidak cukup untuk menggantikan Supra.
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2 weeks ago | 
motor1.com | Chris Rosales
There was a great deal of fanfare when BMW announced the latest, Supra-sibling Z4 was getting a manual transmission. For the first time ever, BMW’s only true sports car launched without a manual gearbox, and no word on whether it would get one. After years of tight-lipped reticence, the Z4 got its flowers only after the Toyota Supra got its long-anticipated and popular manual gearbox. Yet this new “Handschalter” package isn’t quite a Supra carryover job.
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1 month ago | 
motor1.com | Chris Rosales
About 100 miles north of Los Angeles, deep in the dustiest corner of the Mojave Desert, is an iconic ribbon of tarmac: Willow Springs International Raceway. Founded in 1953, then stewarded by the late Bill Huth from 1962 until his death in 2015, the track was home for road racers like Carroll Shelby and Bob Bondurant. The Ford GT40 spent test sessions there in ‘65 ahead of its iconic Le Mans win. Nigel Mansell set the longstanding track record in a Lotus 91 in ‘82.
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1 month ago | 
motor1.com | Chris Rosales
Carrera is an evocative word—Spanish for "race." Once upon a time, Porsche reserved that term for its most hardcore sports cars, ones that required specialist knowledge to operate. Famously, the Fuhrmann four-cam in the original 1955 Porsche 356A Carrera was essentially a race engine that would shake itself to death thanks to an astronomical (for 1955) 7,000 rpm redline. Legend says a complete rebuild took around 150 hours of labor. Truly metal as fuck.
