Brian is a published author who has been writing professionally for a decade in politics and entertainment, but found his calling covering the automotive industry. His love of cars started at an early ...
These 10 early turbo road cars helped make boost matter, from the Oldsmobile Jetfire and Corvair Turbo to the BMW 2002 Turbo, ...
The Chevrolet Corvair Monza Spyder, introduced in the early 1960s, was one of the first American production cars to feature a turbocharged engine. Its 2.4-liter flat-six engine, equipped with a ...
Alongside a pair of European entries with turbochargers in the late 1970s sat a couple of Buicks, carrying forward a banner America had dropped in the '60s.
The Chevy Corvair bowed for the 1960 model year as the Bowtie brand’s air-cooled economy offering. The name came from a contraction of the Corvette and Bel Air nameplates. The Corvair story began when ...
The Pontiac 301 Turbo engine was available in the 1980 and 1981 Pontiac Firebirds. While most were installed in the Trans Am, some can be found in the Firebird Formula. The 301 Turbo engine story is ...
The downsizing of engines by carmakers is a strategy that's now all too familiar. Over the past decades, many automakers have had to shrink their engine sizes as part of efforts to comply with ...