No matter where you went to school, there was always that one big kid that you always wanted on your team. He (or she) could hit a baseball the farthest, pass a floor hockey puck the straightest, and could always find a way through the opposition’s defence and get that football into the end zone. [...]
One of the most celebrated aspects of American heroes is the way they’ve given the middle finger to their antagonists. It started before they were even a country, when the Yanks gave Britain the middle finger over unfair taxation in the form of the “Boston Tea Party.” Sometimes it even takes on literal meaning, like [...]
When the time finally came to replace the third-generation Corvette, Chevy engineers put every bit of technology into the 1984 ‘Vette. Everything from a new type of plastic on the body panels, to the first TPI fuel injection, to a digital speedometer went into building GM’s next supercar. In fact, they put so much effort [...]
The third generation of Corvette was an exercise in contradictions. It had some of the better marketing, what with all the special edition and pace car versions, yet it had one of the worst public debuts. Some came with an engine so powerful that the actual horsepower isn’t known, yet most would have their asses [...]
