For a narrowly focused, hard-edged sports car, Porsche offers enough variants of its current 911 (997 in Porsche-speak) to make your head spin. Buyers can choose between two flat-six engines (325-hp 3.6 L and 355-hp 3.8 L), rear or all-wheel-drive, six-speed manual or 5-speed Tiptronic transmission, and coupe or convertible. That’s before looking at [...]

“You automotive journalists are only concerned with numbers,” barked Geoff Day, when he was asked how fast the new Mercedes-Benz CLK63 AMG Black Series is. “It’s not about the zero-to-sixty numbers–it’s about the experience!”
Day, Mercedes-Benz USA’s director of communications, was right, but his statement was ironic, because AMG models tend to be more about numbers [...]

There was a strange time warp at the 2006 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The calendar said it was January 2006 but the cars on display made many think the clock had been turned back more than three and a half decades.
On display were a new Shelby Mustang, a new Dodge Challenger and [...]