AMELIA ISLAND: ROGER PENSKE CARS

Posted on April 1, 2020April 2, 2020 by MartynL

Thanks to our intrepid Team Matune, we celebrate Roger Penske’s racing successes showcased this year at AMELIA ISLAND: ROGER PENSKE CARS. It’s Saturday afternoon at the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance (AICE) and cars begin moving onto the show field, including a unique array of cars associated with Roger Penske. They come from his years as a driver, a team owner and constructor. Leading a line of impressive racers is Shamrock Motors’ 67 Lola T70 in the Sunoco Blue so often associated with the ...

PLUG-IN PORSCHE: TAYCAN TURBO

Posted on March 31, 2020 by MartynL

Porsche calls it the ’20 Taycan Turbo, although there’s no forced induction in this sleek four-door sports sedan. Heck, there’s not even an engine, as we know it in the PLUG-IN PORSCHE: TAYCAN TURBO, blogs Dan Scanlan. In this modern world where an electric car’s horsepower is listed as kilowatts, our Taycan tester scores into the Supercar range. It generated up to 500 kW, or 670 horsepower, with a massive 774 pound-feet of torque, and was capable of a head-snapping, launch-controlled run to 60...