First Drive: 2010 Audi TT-RS

Story and photos by John LeBlanc ZOLDER, Belgium – Is this the one? Is the new RS the Audi TT that finally threatens its German sports car rivals? The model that will stop prickly critics (including yours truly) from slagging off the TT as a mere Volkswagen Golf in drag?

First Drive: 2009 Lamborghini Gallardo LP 560-4 Coupé

Story, video and photos by John LeBlanc LAS VEGAS, Nevada –It’s challenging enough for Lamborghini’s Gallardo to keep up with recently updated super sports car rivals, such as the Ferrari F430 Scuderia and Porsche 911 GT2.

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 […]

First Drive: 2010 Lamborghini Gallardo LP 560-4 Spyder

[svgallery name=”10_lambo_Gallardo_Spyder_2″] Story and photos by John LeBlanc CANARY ISLANDS, Spain – Like the personalities of the charging bulls that its long line of super sports cars have been named after, Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A., has always appeared to be run on pure, unadulterated emotion. Rational business sense, meh, not so much.

Comparo: Five frugal sports cars

Story and photos by John LeBlanc If you think about it, the first sports cars – the iconic post-World War II cars from MG, Triumph or Alfa Romeo, powered by small displacement four-cylinder engines – were relatively green for their time. Then a certain chicken farmer named Carroll Shelby from Texas came along and stuffed […]

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