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Dead Man Riding – The Legacy

Dead Man Riding – The Legacy

Disaster struck in early 2020 when Mike was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer, with the COVID pandemic shutting off New Zealand from the rest of the world shortly after - effectively ending his booming tour business.

By Brandon Turkus | September 29, 2022
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The 10 Best Auto Racing Helmets
The 10 Best Auto Racing Helmets

Whether you are road racing, doing a track day, running autocross, driving circle track or participating in High-Performance Driver Education, you need a helmet.

By Brandon Turkus | September 22, 2022
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By a Racer, For Racers: Finding Target Brands for Sponsorship
By a Racer, For Racers: Finding Target Brands for Sponsorship

For young racers looking to make the step into racing professionally, a singular topic is always at the forefront: sponsorship.  Current Idemitsu Mazda MX-5 Cup challenger Aidan Fassnacht dives deep into the prospect of finding funding to secure a racing seat; the first of a four part series - By a Racer, For Racers.

By Brandon Turkus | September 27, 2022

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Brand New Classic: 1991 Mitsubishi 3000GT VR-4

If you grew up playing the original Gran Turismo (as many of the Winding Road staff did), you are intimately familiar with the fabled badges of Japanese performance cars. The Honda NSX, Mazda RX-7, and Toyota Supra dominated our waking hours, while the legendary Nissan Skyline GT-R kept us waking in a cold sweat.

By Brandon Turkus | May 11, 2011
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Graphed: Involvement Meets Fuel Economy – Subcompact Cars

Who doesn’t love some good, old fashioned cross-referencing? In advance of Winding Road Issue 70, which will lay forth some of the most involving cars with which to beat $4 gasoline, we have made this graph. It shows us which subcompact cars (as defined by the EPA) do the best job of balancing fuel economy and driver involvement.

By John Beltz Snyder | May 11, 2011
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One Cool Feature: Land Rover LR4 Surround Camera System

When driving, being able to see where you are going and what is going on around you is generally quite important. That’s why we tend to appreciate vehicles with massive greenhouses, as it gives us a great idea of what the other knuckleheads on the road are up to.

By Brandon Turkus | May 11, 2011
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Video: The Onion Interviews Five-Year-Old “Fast Five” Writer

Not all of us at Winding Road have seen Fast Five yet, but we’re still thinking about it. And, some of us (well, just your author) having been accused of being five years old, the following video from The Onion has us debating whether we should give up on waiting for it to come out on DVD.

By John Beltz Snyder | May 02, 2011
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My Car History: John Voelcker

Put two car guys in a room for any length of time, and the conversation will eventually steer towards who has owned what and when. That’s the simple inspiration for what we hope will be an interesting new series: My Car History.

By Seyth Miersma | April 28, 2011
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One Cool Feature: Chevrolet Volt And MyLink

If your EV (or in this case ER-EV) happens to be a Chevrolet Volt, answering that question has just become easier. Thanks to a new app called MyLink, Volt owners can monitor various vehicle systems remotely from their Android or iOS phones. The arrival of our Volt test vehicle seemed like the perfect opportunity to try out the new system, and lucky for us, General Motors provided a Motorola Droid2 for testing.(Sadly, we couldn’t sample the setup on the three different generations of iPhones in the office, as you need one unique pass code per phone.)

By Brandon Turkus | April 27, 2011
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How Not To Work On Your Car: Too Far From Your Tools

It never fails to amaze me how much time one can spend just moving around while working on a car, whether it’s from one side to the other or in and out of the garage. I hear that some people actually have room for a car inside the garage—I am not one of those.

By Evan Frank | April 25, 2011
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Graphed: Formula 1 Driver Fatalities

Racing is a dangerous sport, and our beloved Formula 1 is no exception, as we were reminded with Felipe Massa’s frightening injury in July of 2009. Thankfully, safety has come a long way throughout motorsports history, and gone are the days when deadly accidents were a regular part of racing. We put together this graph to illustrate the fatal history of one of the world’s favorite racing series, Formula 1.

By John Beltz Snyder | April 21, 2011
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Secondhand Gems: Frugal Fun

If your home garage rests somewhere in the United States, your local fill-em-up joint is probably north of $3.00 per gallon for the basic stuff, never mind premium. Yes, fuel prices overseas are generally much higher, but at least the foreign shores are home to neat oil burners that can nip 60 miles per gallon. Granted they’re quite slow, but as we’ve proven time and again in these digital pages, outright speed isn’t necessarily required for a rip snorting good time. And if fuel prices hit the feared $4.00-per-gallon mark, trading a modest 0-60 time for a pocket full of dead presidents will be a welcome deal for many motorists.

By Christopher Smith | April 19, 2011
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Flip This Car: 1994 Buick Roadmaster—Part Six

So yeah, part six is coming out a little lot later than planned, but here’s a great lesson to all the readers out there thinking about doing some flipping of your own. Sometimes winter weather moves in like a deranged uncle, drinking all your beer, taking up all your space in the garage and refusing to even head out for an afternoon so you can get your car properly spruced up without fear of frostbite.

By Christopher Smith | April 18, 2011
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Photo Shoot: Suzuki Kizashi Turbo By Road Race Motorsports

We here at Winding Road are pretty big fans of the Suzuki Kizashi. The Japanese mid-sizer is a great combination of comfort and driving dynamics in a handsome package. But we can’t help but feel it could use a bump in power.

By Brandon Turkus | April 14, 2011
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2011 Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4: What Is A Lamborghini?

The best automotive brands have established some distinctive idea of what they are in the head of the typical enthusiast. This idea, or more likely set of ideas, gets built up, often over decades, through reading about, seeing and discussing the brand. For many enthusiasts, actually driving the cars is small part of what forms that brand image. After all, how many people have driven a McLaren or a Bugatti or, as is our case in point, a Lamborghini? Even among more common performance cars, many enthusiasts have no direct experience with a Viper or a 911 GT3 or even an M5. The result, we’ve noticed over time, is that many enthusiasts hold an idea of brands and models that don’t have much connection with the reality of what is rolling off the assembly line

By Tom Martin | April 12, 2011
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Friday Video: Senna Tribute

Happy Friday. Today, we bring you this most excellent, touching video tribute to one of the greatest Formula 1 drivers of all time, Ayrton Senna.

By John Beltz Snyder | April 08, 2011
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Photo Shoot: 2011 BMW 335is

You may remember Winding Road Issue 61, in which we reviewed the 2011 BMW 335is. When we put together that issue, we left out a lot of gorgeous photography of the car. As we have done previously with some other vehicles, we thought we’d now share some of those images from that photo shoot with you.

By John Beltz Snyder | April 06, 2011
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Friday Video: Wald Lexus LS600h Black Bison Edition

It’s no secret we are fans of what Wald International does. And we were again excited to see something from the Japanese tuners in our inbox this week. And this time, it’s a video.

By John Beltz Snyder | April 01, 2011
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Friday Video: Ferarri FF Gets A Boo-Boo

The British magazine Car got a crack behind the wheel of the new Ferrari FF in Italy. Driver Jethro Bovingdon was kind enough to film himself inside the cabin as he drives the rather expensive all-wheel-drive Ferrari into a curb.

By John Beltz Snyder | March 25, 2011
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How Not To Work On Your Car: When You Are Tired

Most of us who have worked on cars have probably had a project where things just refused to go our way. It may be hard to pin down exactly what was causing the issue(s), as many times DIY auto work is driven by either blind enthusiasm or the need to get the suspension back on the car before the 8 a.m. meeting tomorrow. Either way, having just a little bit of advice from someone who’s been there before, and, critically, made many mistakes before, can help. That’s what this new series of articles will be all about.

By Evan Frank | March 22, 2011
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Friday Videos: Jet-Powered Cars

Happy Friday, folks. We were going to show you a video of an attempt to jump a jet-powered Lincoln Continental from Canada over the St. Lawrence River into the US, but embedding was disabled. Instead, we bring you some other jet cars.

By John Beltz Snyder | March 18, 2011
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Secondhand Gems: $50K Fast Sport Utes

High-performance sport utility vehicles are a lot like veggie burgers. Yes, they can be tasty, but the whole time there’s this sense that the meal is trying to be something it’s not, which of course, is the exact truth. That doesn’t automatically mean the feast is destined to be a bad experience, just don’t take a bite expecting it to taste like a medium-rare hamburger.

By Christopher Smith | March 15, 2011
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Winding Road Guest Blog: What’s That In The Ditch?

Our latest Guest Blog is also our first from one of our Canadian neighbors. Correctly, then, the topic revolves around winter driving, dos and don’ts, and keeping one’s wheels safely pavement-side.

By Winding Road Staff | March 09, 2011
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Friday Video: When Racing Was (Even More) Dangerous

Oh, hey Friday! Where have you been? What’s that? You brought a video! Why, thank you, Friday.

By John Beltz Snyder | March 04, 2011

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