The target: 0–60 mph in 2.3 seconds. That’s the record and the bar by which all other production cars will be measured. Only two have ever accelerated to 60 mph so quickly, the 2017 Tesla Model S P100D and now, the 2021 Porsche 911 Turbo S we tested recently. If you haven’t noticed, we don’t
Nissan will, from January 12 to March 31, display the test car used to develop the GT-R50 by Italdesign at Nissan Crossing in Tokyo. The space is a fancy showroom, perfect for showing off the car used to develop a million dollar supercar.
According to Nissan, the car was used on circuits to test chassis rigidity and durability. It was also used as a rig to test some of the car’s carbon fiber parts and the rear wing.
With just 50 GT-R50s being built, this is a really nice look into the development process of a supercar based on one of the most impressive cars of the last decade.
2021 Toyota Avalon 4-Dr TRD Review by David Colman +VIDEO
2021 Toyota Avalon TRD
Special Correspondent to THE AUTO CHANNEL
I once asked mystery writer Lee Child what he drove. He responded, I buy used police cars because they re fast and they don t get noticed. Child would love the Avalon TRD
because it s plenty fast but won t get you noticed. In other words, it s the perfect sleeper sedan. Toyota s in-house go fast department called TRD (Toyota Racing Development) has
done an admirable job of turning the benign Avalon family sedan into something altogether different. The fun begins when you depress the starter button to fire up the hefty 301hp V6. A digital
2021 Toyota GR Supra 2.0 Review by David Colman +VIDEO
2021 Toyota GR Supra 2.0
The unbeatable lightness of being the new GR Supra
By David Colman
Special Correspondent to THE AUTO CHANNEL
Colin Chapman, the brilliant English founder of Lotus sports cars, once said that the best way to improve vehicle dynamics was to add lightness. It s an edict that has gone unheeded
today as manufacturers burden every new product with enough needless accessories, electric motors, and hybrid batteries to make a camel collapse. Enter the new-for-2021 GR version of the Toyota Supra.
This turbocharged 4 cylinder model joins the 6 cylinder Supra which made its debut in 2020. The 3,181lb. GR weighs 267 pounds less than the 6 cylinder model. But the lighter 255hp Supra GR also makes