From the January 1988 issue of Car and Driver. The traditional wind-in-the-face sports car came perilously close to extinction during the seventies, the victim of an un­usual combination of forces.

The Iconic SP remains a passion project at heart, though budget cuts and business challenges could slow its path from concept ...

Since the age of 14, Cristian Tyrell has been fending for and finding himself. He lived back and forth between Houston, Texas, and the Portland, Oregon, and skateboarding was his constant, ...

You go out and get yourself a '97 Accord LX with an intake when you go looking for some sort of alternative to driving that truck of yours around full-time. Will Tetro, he goes out and builds an ...

In theory, Wankel-style rotary internal combustion engines have many advantages: they ditch the cumbersome crankcase and ...

You don't have to be a Mazda fan to know that the RX-7 is an iconic car. After its debut in 1978, the car had three successful generations, each one bringing changes to the style and performance.

The oil crisis of the early 1970s nearly forced Mazda to abandon rotary engine designs due to their fuel consumption, at a time of downsizing in the industry. But the existing 12A engine family that ...