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Porsche Recalls 53 Boxsters and Caymans for Oversized Spoilers | Giga Gears
Between June 23 and September 5, Porsche built 53 Boxster and Cayman models for the U.S. market with a little snippet of code that makes them potentially totally illegal to drive. The German automaker says an employee was manually altering code in the rear vehicle control unit, which now allows the rear spoiler to…
’90s Cars: Revisiting Their Legacy | Giga Gears
The 1990s weren’t as great as we remember them to be. I’m as guilty as any of you of regard the time before I had internet as the golden age of automotive enthusiasm. The cars were better then, right? No. We all have rose-colored glasses. The cars were built like crap, they were gutless, they were unreliable, and many…
Porsche Boxster Thieves Foiled by Manual Transmission
Yet another car was spared from the clutches (see what I did there) of thieves after suspects assaulted a Bethesda, Maryland restaurant owner and attempted to steal his manual Porsche 718 Boxster before stalling it twice and ultimately giving up.
Hyundai N Takes Action with Retro-Futuristic EV Sports Car | Giga Gears
It’s impossible to ignore how much Hyundai’s design team is killing the game right now. The clearly-Giugiaro-inspired throwback designs it is producing are absolutely rad to the max. The Ioniq 5 looks a treat, and that kind of retro 80s-aping design is the next big thing if you ask me. Making a small-ish sport coupe…
2024 Porsche 718 Spyder RS: Platform’s Farewell with a Scream
It’s been a week now since I drove the 2024 Porsche 718 Spyder RS in the rolling hills of the Swabian Alps in Germany. Normally I don’t get this much time to reflect on a day of driving a new car before writing about it, but I’m glad that in this case, I did. See, the 718 Spyder RS is a relatively simple car, but it…