For the rider looking for a large-displacement, timelessly elegant Italian motorcycle with a 90-degree, air-cooled, desmodromic V-twin, a premium finish, a twin underslung exhaust, and top-shelf electronic safety features, the Ducati Scrambler 1100 is in a class of one. If your desires in a motorcycle are so specific that you consider the 1100 in such a regard, you're probably the kind of person whose deeply ingrained preferences mean you tend to fixate on certain qualities with fierce devotion.
Monthly Archives: March 2018
A letter to America: Thanks for saving the manual sports car
Filed under: Etc.,Geneva Motor Show,Porsche,Performance
The knowledge that smoothly riding that wave into third gear and beyond is going to require skill, timing and a degree of expertise beyond a fingertip on a paddle is the reward I want from a car such as the GT3.
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2018 Porsche Panamera Turbo Sport Turismo Drivers’ Notes | Wagon week
Filed under: Design/Style,Porsche,Quick Spins,Wagon,Luxury,Performance
We all love fast wagons. Their combination of practicality and performance scratches an itch for most of us here at Autoblog. What other vehicle on the market can carry a family of four along with all their luggage and still hit 60 mph in fewer than four seconds and a top speed close to 200 mph? These are supercars wrapped in a family-friendly package.
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Insights From The Vitpilen 701’s Senior Project Manager, Justin Maxwell
His father worked as motorcycle mechanic in his native South Africa, and Maxwell spent his youth racing motocross, eventually ascending to the national level. After attaining degrees in marketing and business management, Maxwell secured a job that kept him close to two wheels, serving as the sales and marketing lead at South Africa's largest KTM dealership in Johannesburg.