GarageLove: The New Generation of Racer
GarageLove: The New Generation of Racer by Per Schroeder “You can look at a Pinewood Derby Race in a variety of ways. You can make your project look cool, you…
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Project Mazda3 Part 3: Improving Our Contact Patch
Project Mazda3: Part 3 – Improving our Contact Patch by Per Schroeder Now that Spring has sprung here in the Mid-World, it’s time to get our 2014 Mazda3 ready for some…
Quick Chat: Heyward Wagner of the SCCA
Quick Chat: Heyward Wagner, Director of Experiential Programs for the SCCA by Per Schroeder MotoIQ: Heyward Wagner has been tasked with helping the Sports Car Club of America grow and with that…
Quick Chat: Anders Green of Nasa Rally Sport
Quick Chat: Nasa Rally Sport's Anders Green by Per Schroeder If you ask anybody under thirty years of age about the sport of Rally, you’d be hard pressed to get…
Project Mazda3 Part 2: Wintertime Fun
Project Mazda3 Part 2: Wintertime Fun by Per Schroeder After the revelation in the first installment of this 2014 Mazda3 project that we actually spend two-plus hours a day in…
Project Mazda3: Part 1 -This Is The Droid We’re Looking For
Project Mazda3: Part 1 – This Is The Droid We’re Looking For. by Per Schroeder You know that perfect dreamworld where you’re dating a super…
How To: Test Your Own Race Tires
GarageLove How To: Tire Testing by Per Schroeder The neck-twisting grip that modern performance tires deliver was once the territory of just limited-production race compounds. Couple that delightful evolution with…
GarageLove: Project Car Dreams – Part 1
Project Car Dreams Part 1: Finding Your Project by Per Schroeder For everyone that says that the hardest part about any project is the first step, I counter with this: …
GarageLove: Chasing the Dragon
Chasing the Dragon by Per Schroeder Sometimes the best roadtrips arise from happy accidents. Maybe “accident” is the wrong word choice when talking about a drive in a car, but nonetheless,…
GarageLove: A Corner Station In My Backyard
GarageLove: A Corner Station In My Backyard by Per Schroeder A friend of mine pointed out that that it was pretty funny that many of the houses he saw on…
GarageLove: Restoring the Sport Compact Generation
Restoring the Sport Compact Generation by Per Schroeder I am wearing a Casio G-Shock watch that dates back to the late 1980s—it was one of the first models with a…
GarageLove: A Last Minute Letter to Mazda Engineers
A Last Minute Letter to Mazda Engineers by Per Schroeder The global reveal of the upcoming 2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata is scheduled for September 3, 2014—you can see more here. …
GarageLove: Five Things Car Guys Can Collect
GarageLove: Five Car Things Anyone Can Collect by Per Schroeder Thanks to collector auction craze and the inevitable glut of reality shows about it, the market for classic cars has…
GarageLove: Track and Traffic
Track and Traffic by Per Schroeder Can Experience on the Race Track Make You a Safer Driver in Real-World Traffic? The Tire Rack Street Survival School uses many of the…
Arrive and Drive
Arrive and Drive by Per Schroeder Autocross is rather unique in the motorsports world, in that you can have different drivers competing in the same exact car at the same…
Garage Love: Please Don’t Call It My ManCave
Garage Love: Please Don't Call It My ManCave by Per Schroeder I got a glimpse inside a garage that’s normally closed up tight along my route to work today. What first grabbed…
Garage Love: Speed-Dependent Wheel Vibrations
Garage Love: Speed-Dependent Wheel Vibrations by Per Schroeder As the resident car guy in my neighborhood, I get tasked with commiseration when something automotive breaks, prodded for new car advice…
Five Things About Flipping Cars
Garage Love: Five Things About Flipping Cars by Per Schroeder Before there were car dealers, there were horse traders. Find a horse, brush it down, put new shoes on its…
Hyper-Miling Is Not My Thing
Garage Love: Hyper-Miling is Not My Thing by Per Schroeder It takes a lot for me to admit that I’m not good at something. My inner-German just wants to attack,…
You’re An Idiot If You Take That New Porsche To The Track
You're An Idiot If You Take That New Porsche To The Track by Per Schroeder No, seriously, I know it’ll lap the ‘Ring in 7:25, but did you know that…