Tag: sports cars

November 21, 2017

The phrase “Aston Martin” may conjure images of 1960s cool, of Sean Connery in a fine suit, of the iconic DB5. That’s why the job of every new Aston car over the past five decades has been to deliver that […]

November 7, 2017

EACH TIME PORSCHE sets out to design a new generation of its popular Cayenne SUV, it takes on the same challenge: making a car that feels more like a Porsche than a popular SUV. That is, ditching the rolling Barcalounger […]

October 3, 2017

AT ITS CORE, the car dashboard is a simple, utilitarian thing. It exists to convey information: speed, the fullness of the gas tank or battery, miles driven, the occasional warning about low oil or tire pressure. But auto designers have […]

April 12, 2017

Walk the floor of any car show and you’ll find the future neatly organized according to buzzwords. Autonomous. Electric. Connected. Shared. The folks at Dodge, though, use fancy another buzzword. More. As in more power. More torque. And more wheelies. Yeah. More wheelies. Dodge, […]

March 1, 2017

AS I CRUISE down Silicon Valley’s Bayshore Freeway, I twirl my right index finger in small clockwise circles. Though the gesture recognition system needs several tries to pick up the command and crank up the 16-speaker stereo, the 20 air […]