The Crank: Why I hate (some) Old Fart cars

By John LeBlanc MONTEREY, Calif. – Cars as art? No problem. I can appreciate the past as rolling sculpture as well as anyone else. I never really understood the fascination with driving old cars, though, at least for the cars I’ve owned or driven in the past. They’ve always been more fragile, unreliable, slower, or […]

Bye-Bye 2009: Best Driver’s Car of the Year

By John LeBlanc Everyone likes an underdog right? When the revitalized Porsche Cayman S arrived with its wunderkind Doppelkupplungsgetriebe (PDK) transmission and updated engine last year, it knocked the hallowed 911 off the perch I had it up on as my all-time sports car fave. Sounds blasphemous? Maybe. But I appreciate a sports car for […]

Video: 2009 Nissan GT-R vs. Porsche 911 Turbo

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Video: Newest Boxster lightest Porsche on sale

Debuts at next month’s L.A. auto show (which I’ll be at), and on sale in Canada next February  for $72,900 is the new Boxster Spyder, what Porsche claims  is the lightest Porsche in the lineup, weighing in at only 1,275 kg.

Road Test: 2009 Porsche 911 Carrera 4S

Story and photos by John LeBlanc Some automakers take a few too many liberties in labeling their sports cars as “everyday” transportation. For instance, Audi likes to brag that its R8 can be driven 365 days a year, mainly because it has all-wheel-drive. I guess so. But what if that day falls in January. In […]

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