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The Kona Iron Man Edition Metric: How Rare is Your Car Really?

Everyone knows the number one thing to do as a supercar owner is brag about how rare your car is to your rich buddies at the poker table. However, us at MSIMA have decided to help put these rumors to rest with something we call the Kona Iron Man Edition Metric. An important distinction to…
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Where’s the “Hype” in “Hypercars”?

Modern day supercars and supercar brands are stupid. Call me sentimental, but back before 2010, it seemed like every new supercar was a huge deal, something the whole world admired and looked up to as something big. For example, the Gallardo, Carrera GT, LFA, 458 and Veyron, were just some of the incredible cars from…
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2021 BMW 118i 6 Speed – Mini Bread and Bavarian Butter

This is a rental for a few days. It got taken to the alps. It wandered city streets. It cruised along lakes. And it found itself on some derestricted autobahn. Welcome to the mini clubman BMW 118i ! Ok so for legal reasons I probably can’t dig into this little nugget of German platform engineering…
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The Least Australian UTE

Ah, Australia. A land of chaos, spiders and shrimp on a Barbie (??). In the land of upside down, they have quite a different sort of automotive culture. Today, the spotlight is put on the UTE, which I’m sure most of you know. In short, a UTE is a truck with a bed but without…
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Ride of the Decade – Lamborghini Miura SV and Countach Periscopio

Ah anonymous connections, what a wonderful thing. You don’t need the details about who or why. Just that an old roommate was involved, and I flew from Germany to the UK to eventually be surprised by these two! This is going to be one of those days, even without being able to drive. The Miura…
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The Real Automotive God: The Man Who Has Every Chevy HHR SS Panel Wagon.

From the abandoned mall basement Simon resides in: You know what they say about the perfect car. Le manuele, weird, wagon. Our savior came down to earth but we rejected him. It was truly perfect, the chevy HHR SS panel van. A true oddity. There it was with 260hp, a 6 speed manual, an LSD…
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US Power Grid to Adopt Tesla NACS Port

The newest adopter for the Tesla designed NACS charging port was announced this week, as the US Government plans to switch from the Type-B Electrical Socket. The department of energy (DOE) had its engineers look into the possibility of using the NACS standard designed by Tesla to charge their EV’s for the past decade, as…
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IMSA Mandates Flags on All Cars Whenever LMP3’s are on Track

After recent events from the 6 hours of Watkins Gen, IMSA has decided on roll out a new set of regulations as a test before LMP3 is removed from the Weathertech championship: “After noticing a lack of driver visibility from the LMP3 field, we’ve decided on a new course of action to try and fix…




