The Drive and its partners may earn a commission if you purchase a product through one of our links. Read more. Brakes are those car components that most people generally forget about until they can’t—why hello, tree, would you like to be friends? Brake pads are even more forgotten, despite […]
Month: July 2020
We Got Him: That Time GM Sold 12,500 Terrible Chevy Malibus to Saddam Hussein
The international reputation of American carmakers during the Malaise Era—the period of successive oil crises, regulation-choked engines and general crap quality lasting from 1973 to the mid-1980s—was, in a word, bad. So bad that former Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein once nixed a deal to buy 25,000 specially-built 1981 Chevrolet Malibus […]
What Would You Swap Rimac’s 1,340-Horsepower C_Two Rear Axle Into?
The Rimac C_Two is a four-wheel-drive electric hypercar with four independent permanent-magnet electric motors and torque vectoring. It sends a combined 1,914 horsepower through a pair of two-speed gearboxes on its rear axle, and two single-speed units with a 5:8 ratio on the smaller front axle. It also features a […]
McLaren Is Bringing the Classic Gulf Oil Livery Back to Formula 1
Made famous by its appearance on the likes of the Ford GT40 and Porsche 917, and in the Steve McQueen film Le Mans, the Gulf Oil getup is one of racing’s most recognizable liveries. The pleasing pairing of aquamarine and orange, of course, also gained notoriety on the winning Can-Am […]
Vintage Race Car Flips Mark Webber-Style in Massive Road America Crash
American racing driver Jim Pace is lucky to walk away with nothing more than a bad taste in his mouth, after going for a wild ride at the wheel of his vintage race car during this weekend’s WeatherTech International Challenge at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. Per a report […]
F1 Racing Returns to Nurburgring, Imola, and Portugal Later This Year
We’ve got both good and bad news about the 2020 Formula 1 race schedule—let’s have the latter first. Because the United States and its South American counterpart Brazil are competing for the COVID-19 high score, F1 has ruled out racing in the Americas in 2020, and that goes for our […]
BMW’s Big Green Plans Include an Electric 5 Series
Good Monday morning and welcome back to Speed Lines, The Drive’s now tri-weekly roundup of what matters most in the world of cars and transportation. On today’s docket we have BMW’s “sustainability” plan, bad news for Mitsubishi and some updates on when you might be able to expect a Rivian […]
Former F1 Driver Crashes LM-Spec McLaren Senna in Monaco
The big news buzzing around the web is that ex-Formula 1 racing driver Adrian Sutil crashed his McLaren Senna LM in Monaco over the weekend. In case you’re unfamiliar, that’s an even faster, even rarer Senna than the “standard” hypercar. The Woking manufacturer built a small batch of them to […]
Airlines’ Grounded Boeing 737s May Have Developed Fatal Engine Defect in Storage: FAA
Air travel has been severely impacted by the Coronavirus pandemic, with many airlines and aerospace companies feeling the economic pressure. Boeing, however, was in deep trouble before the virus due to fatal flaws in its 737 MAX airliner, and now it seems like its woes are set to continue. According […]
How Often Should You Rotate Tires?
The Drive and its partners may earn a commission if you purchase a product through one of our links. Read more. So you want to know how often you need to rotate your tires? Good on you for getting proactive about your vehicle’s health and safety, we wish others were […]
Celebrate the Almighty Subaru 22B’s 22nd Birthday with The Drive’s New Blipshift Merch
The gravel-slinging Subaru Impreza 22B STi is universally loved, mostly for its ability to slip and slide through all sorts of B-road rally stages. It was built as a homologation special in 1998 to commemorate Subaru’s World Rally Championship Impreza. That car won three consecutive constructor and driver titles starting […]