Zac Palmer

2 weeks ago | roadandtrack.com | Zac Palmer

The only gearbox the Dodge Viper ever rolled off the assembly line with was a manual transmission. But that hasn’t stopped one Nashville-area auto shop from converting a fourth-gen convertible to shift via a dual-clutch automatic transmission. We've seen Vipers with torque-converter automatic swaps before; same goes for sequential shifters. But a DCT? That's a new one for us. We first discovered the project through a video posted online by Erin Carpenter, owner of Carma Performance.

2 weeks ago | roadandtrack.com | Zac Palmer

A Michigan-born car nut and racing enthusiast, Zac Palmer is talking about or thinking about cars somewhere. He bought his first when he was still 15, a 2001 Acura Integra GS-R that still resides in the garage today. It's now joined by a 2004 Porsche Boxster S, and there will be even less practical additions to follow. Palmer worked at both Autoweek and Autoblog before joining R&T.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Zac Palmer

Volkswagen Might Have Found A Buyer For Its Iconic Italian BrandVolkswagen Group is looking to sell one of its most iconic brands, and it has found some interested buyers. A new report says that the group now has …

2 weeks ago | roadandtrack.com | Zac Palmer

Some cars evolve between generations, but the Tiguan is entirely reborn every time. Each succeeding generation is nothing like the last. The Tiguan started out as a small, semi-sporty crossover that ended up being a sales miss in the large-car-craving U.S. market. The second iteration was larger and less powerful, and sold much better. Now there's another new direction for 2025, the third-gen being almost entirely new and very different again.

2 weeks ago | roadandtrack.com | Zac Palmer

It would be difficult to believe if it didn’t come from the mouth of the CEO himself, but Lotus is apparently investigating the possibility of dropping a V8 engine into the Emira. Qingfeng Feng, Lotus CEO, made the statements concerning the eight-cylinder during the company’s Q4 earnings call, asfirst reported by Autocar. "We are investigating a new power system which is a V8,” Feng said of the Emira.