Honda Civic Tops Compact Class
Everyone has a Honda Civic story. Since its arrival on U.S. shores in 1973, it has slowly established itself as a cultural touchstone, the car that everyone turns to the way those who came of age during the Age of Aquarius turned to the Volkswagen Beetle. OK, maybe the Civic never became a movie star like the Beetle did, and it never could claim to possess an iconic shape. Instead, it was a cultural shape-shifter, one that changed...
The Modernizing of a Classic
The 50th anniversary Ford Mustang GT is a fastback — and a throwback. It’s an homage to Ford’s glory days, when gas was cheap and custom pony cars dueled at the drag strip with Corvettes, Camaros and GTOs. But this is no history lesson. The new model is a thoroughly modern machine. The 2015 GT has a 5-liter V-8 engine that pumps out 435 horsepower and 400 pound-feet of torque. It’s fast, but not furious — rowdy, but refined. The GT...
