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Integra Type R Vs Type S
Every automotive journalist has a car that they will do anything to get behind the wheel of, even if it's just for one more hour, one more story. Chief among these, for me, is the legendary Acura Integra Type R,…
Gaze Upon This Porsche Track Day Train Wreck
Jesus. Wept. It's the mantra echoing through my mind while I watch this video captured from a track day at England's Snetterton circuit outside of Norwich (that's Norr'itch for us Yanks). This is a live-action train wreck, which ends with a blown…
Experiencing Japan’s Best Street Racing (In an Arcade Around the Corner)
For Japan Month at Motor1, we’ve traveled far and wide to uncover the origins of Japanese car culture. For this piece, I’ll be experiencing the history of Japan’s street racing scene by walking a mile down the street to the…
We Drove a Honda Kei Car In Japan. It Was Incredible
A Kei car is the only way to experience Japan. Forget carving Hakone in an RX-7, gliding along the Wangan in an R34 GT-R, or grumbling through Shibuya in a Supra. The Honda N-One RS with a manual transmission is…
How Vermont Saved the Legacy of Japan’s Greatest Rally Team: Part 1
We know Vermonters love their Subarus. 11.3% of new cars sold in the state are a Subaru—vastly more than the company’s nationwide share of sales, which hovers around 1%. But the state’s ties to Subaru run deeper than Foresters parked…
How Vermont (and Travis Pastrana) Saved The Legacy of Japan’s Greatest Rally Team: Part 2
In 2000, at the age of 16, Travis Pastrana was already one of the most accomplished motorcyclists on Earth. He won the World Freestyle Motocross Championship in 1997 at the age of just 14, and would continue winning that championship…
My First Waymo Ride Was Really Underwhelming, And That’s Scary
I didn’t know what to expect when I opened the Waymo app for the first time. I was outside my hotel in Los Angeles and Little Tokyo was about seven blocks away. Alphabet had announced earlier in the month that…