Jim Koscs

The last gas-powered Lotus The Lotus Emira is finally here … almost. You’ll be able to order one in the U.S. this summer, though pricing was released in mid-March. The two-seat, mid-engine Emira replaces the 2+2 Evora 400, and Lotus calls the new car…

Lamborghini’s original rock star If you contributed to the 503 million minutes streamed across the three episodes of The Beatles “Get Back” film on Disney last November, you likely caught a glimpse of Sir Paul McCartney’s 1967 Lamborghini 400 GT 2+2.…

Maranello Amps Up Electrification All those rumors of a V6-powered Ferrari turned out to be true. The Ferrari 296GTB unveiled on June 25 is a mid-engine model with a new V6, and it’s part of a hybrid electric powertrain that cranks out an astounding…

A Heady Mix of Gas and Electrons It’s already been more than a decade since Porsche first showed the 918 Spyder plug-in hybrid concept at the Geneva Motor Show. The production version followed three years later and was even more powerful than the…

A McLaren Hybrid for the Masses Do you like supercar fun facts? Here’s a good one about the 2022 McLaren Artura arriving later this year: it weighs less than a Toyota Prius Prime. How could that factoid even matter in the slightest? It’s not that…

Maranello Mints Another Classic It’s a safe bet that the early customers for the 2021 Ferrari Roma didn’t need to wait for the reviews before putting their money down. Just look at this car. Making a break from current Ferrari design, the Roma looks…

An Italian exotic that flew under the radar If on the gameshow “Jeopardy” the category was “Connect the Dots” and host Alex Trebek gave the answer as “Alfa Romeo and 1967,” an American car enthusiast might respond, “What is ‘The Graduate?’” After…

Another Step Toward Electric Meet the latest piece of Ferrari history, its first plug-in hybrid. Teased in spy photos for months, the Ferrari SF90 broke cover at the end of May. With 986 horsepower, the DF90 Stradale is the marque’s most powerful…

For decades, some of the fastest, most powerful cars from Italy wore two badges: Ferrari for the builder and Pininfarina for the designer. (Sometimes Pininfarina was the builder, too.) A new 1900-horsepower Italian hypercar arriving in 2021 will wear…

A 1986 Volvo advertisement for its 740 Turbo wagon showed the boxy Swede next to one of the decade’s favorite poster cars, a Ferrari Testarossa, with the headline: “Until Ferrari builds a wagon, this is it.” There was, however, an alternative—a 1987…

The Maturing of the Ferrari GT Ferrari built its reputation on dual-purpose machines, the sports and GT cars one could drive on the road during the week and to the track on the weekend. There were more comfort-oriented models, such as the 250 GT…