The Ferrari was the very last car that Enzo Ferrari built. The Iconic Ferrari F40 was the last car that the Italian brand’s founder oversaw before he passed away in 1988. The supercar was built to celebrate Ferrari’s 40th anniversary from 1987 to 1992 and was the successor to the Ferrari 288 GTO. The car [...]
The all-new 2013 Audi RS 5 almost feels like a race car for the street, with its glued-to-the-road suspension, strong brakes and awesome, high-revving 4.2-liter V-8 that generates 450-horsepower and 317 pound-feet of torque. That naturally aspirated V-8 is good for an oh-my-gosh 0-60 m.p.h time and, says Audi, an electronically governed top speed of [...]
The new 2014 Mazda6 is one of the most attractive, front-drive, four-door vehicles out on the road today. The Skyactive, 2.5-liter engine is wonderfully efficient returning 30 mpg combined while providing enough power to make one smile. This is a special car and Mazda put significant time and effort into the design. In another TFLcar [...]
The compact front-drive 2013 Mazda3 four-door sedan or hatchback provides driving kicks and decent roominess. The 2013 Mazda3 has a good number of minor upgrades and updates from its predecessor. The 2012 model got more-aggressive styling and a new, fuel-saving 155-horsepower 2-liter fuel-stingy (and oddly named) “Skyactiv” (no “e”) engine. That four-cylinder engine delivers an [...]
Many new automakers often held out making a convertible version of their standard hardtop models, but Volkswagen began building Beetle convertibles in 1949, very soon after its first rear-engine, four-seat hardtop model was built. The Beetle convertible was a good move. The rear-engine model was gobbled up, with more than 330,000 made over a 32-year [...]
The 2013 Volvo S60 is still as Swedish as a big chunk of lutfisk with lingonberry topping. Foreign buyouts can be harrowing for automotive companies, but Zhejiang Geely has done absolutely no wrong to this vehicle. The 2013 Volvo S60 is not only worthy of competing with the world’s best, including the Audi A4, BMW [...]
Walking up to my Tangerine Orange Pearl 2013 Subaru XV Crosstrek Premium for the first time, the intro to Led Zeppelin’s own Tangerine played over and over in my head. This car looks menacing with its black-painted 17-inch wheels, pronounced fender flares and raised ride height. That ride height adds up to 8.7 total inches [...]
Through the middle of January, it got blisteringly cold in Denver. So cold, in fact, that the TFLcar long-term BRZ’s tachometer began icing over (see above). I’d already driven the BRZ through some nasty stuff, but how would it fare in single-digit ambient temperatures? Walking up to the car, the BRZ let loose its first [...]
We at TFLcar are lucky enough to drive a new car each week, which means that we get to drive hundreds of different cars each year.It also means that for our very 1st annual New Year Show we’ll let you in our our secret. What are the best cars that we’ve driven in 2012 by [...]
We at TFLcar are lucky enough to drive a new car each week, which means that we get to drive hundreds of different cars each year. It also means that for our very 1st annual New Year Show we’ll let you in our our secret. What are the best cars that we’ve driven in 2012 by [...]
We at TFLcar are lucky enough to drive a new car each week, which means that we get to drive hundreds of different cars each year. It also means that for our very 1st annual TFLcar New Year Show we’ll let you in our our secret. Considering all of the hundreds of cars we drive each [...]
Welcome to the first installment of the TFLCar New Year’s Show! We at TFLcar are lucky enough to drive a new car each week, which means that we get to drive hundreds of different cars each year. It also means that for our very 1st annual TFLcar New Year’s Show we’ll let you in our [...]
Review: The 2013 KIA Rio mixes utility with driving fun to make a good economy car cocktail The 2013 KIA Rio got sporty, nicely sculpted styling for 2012 and adds such things as automatic transmission shifter paddles for the top-line SX, a fuel-saving “idle stop-and-go” feature and extra storage space via a cargo floor tray [...]
When it comes to visual appeal, the thought of a wedge-shaped hybrid doesn’t immediately come to mind. But when my Nebula Gray 2012 Lexus CT 200h F Sport arrived for evaluation, I needed an off road jack to retract my jaw to its full upright position. The 2012 Lexus CT 200h’s muscular hatchback profile is [...]
