John Pearley Huffman
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2 days ago |
roadandtrack.com | John Pearley Huffman
I live a blessed automotive life. I’ve driven Ferraris, Porsches, Lamborghinis, and Aston Martins on racetracks around the world. Since 1990, when I started writing about cars, I’ve had driving adventures that even millionaires couldn’t afford. There’s a new Lexus in my garage right now that was delivered to me clean and with a full tank of gas. This is a great job. Doesn’t pay a lot, but I love it. That’s why I have cheap, Chinese-made bumpers on my two first-generation Toyota Tundras.
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3 days ago |
roadandtrack.com | John Pearley Huffman
Forty years ago, BMW introduced the M5. If the people who conceived and engineered the first one are still around, they retired long ago. The customers who bought it must be in their sunset years too. No one on the current Road & Track staff was writing about cars professionally in 1985. We were either living with our parents or not yet born. The new seventh-generation M5 isn’t a throwback product built for misty-eyed nostalgia.
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1 week ago |
roadandtrack.com | John Pearley Huffman
Lucid’s second product is an SUV, sort of. In the current market, SUVs are what sells, so the electric 2026 Lucid Gravity is being described as an SUV. Just like, say, the BMW X1, the Cadillac Escalade, or the Jeep Wrangler. They’re all indistinguishable from one another, right? So, the SUV market is silly and screwy. But if Lucid wants to call the Gravity an SUV, it’s an SUV. Rather than dwell on the existential questions of what it is or isn’t, appreciate the 828-hp Lucid Gravity for its substance.
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1 week ago |
flipboard.com | John Pearley Huffman
The current EV era is ripe with revered classic car designs and nameplates that are being reborn as battery-powered rides – and the success of cars the Renault 5 proves it can be a winning formula. Today, I’m suggesting another classic that deserves a modern electric update: the OG Ford Taurus. It …
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2 weeks ago |
roadandtrack.com | John Pearley Huffman
In 1974, Bill “Grumpy” Jenkins took the body shell of a Chevrolet Vega and built a race car inside of it. It changed the world of drag racing. And after that NHRA Pro Stock drag race Vega appeared, the era of the “stock” race car was over – in practically all forms of professional, production-based racing. The stock Chevrolet Vega was an awful car. But awful doesn’t matter in racing, power-to-weight ratios do. And that was Grumpy’s profound insight.
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