Okay, this is the Car Insider. We talk about cars; fast cars, beautiful cars, exotic cars, concept cars, spied cars etc. But do we care about 2-seat, green-friendly commuter cars? Fuck no! But, what if said commuter car boasted 800+ hp and 1,000 ft-lbs of torque in a 2,100 lb machine? Well, that’s a different story.

The little Tango Commuter Car is all of the above, and much more. Despite being designed for congested urban environments, the Tango can out accelerate and out maneuver the Tesla Roadster, the Porsche 911 and most motorcycles on the road. And with it’s jaw-dropping $108,000, it out prices them, too.

With a 12 second quarter-mile, 4 second 0-60 time and denture-tossing skid pad numbers, the Tango sounds like something any car lover would want in his stable—until you see it.

The car that Porsche built, the iconic 911, looks to be alive and well. What’s been reported as the next-generation Porsche 911, the 998, was spotted during winter testing by auto-spies extraordinaire, Brenda Priddy & Company. And, like the realization that your girlfriend is human when you first catch a whiff a deuce drop, this German beauty was caught getting gas, just like a real car.

Source: SEMA

53 years ago today, German mechanical engineer Felix Wankel gave the world the Wankel rotary engine. Fired off at the R&D department of German manufacturer NSU Motorenwerke AG, history was made as Wankel turned the key on what would eventually become one of the most hotly debated engine designs in history.

A newly-unemployed truck driver dropped a brand new Ferrari F430 Spyder off the top level of his delivery truck yesterday near Boston. If only Ferrari had a Factory-Refurb Outlet Center…

Source: Jalopnik

Whether you’re a Ford fan or not, the auto enthusiast in you has to give Henry and family their due. Racing since the golden ere of motoring, Ford Motor Company has turned out some of the finest racecars, and more importantly for the everyman, some of the fastest road cars ever produced.

Since we’re just a simple automotive blog—a mere blip on the radar of motoring journalism (some may say a scourge)—we have to turn over the list making to the big guys. Here’s a list of the some of the fastest road-going Fords ever built, compiled by that most respectable auto-journalism outfit Winding Road.

If you’re between the ages of 35 and 45, and a car fan, there’s no doubt that Smokey and the Bandit played a huge role in your automotive coming-of-age. That movie had it all: Sally Field in her prime, Jackie Gleason at his nastiest, 18-wheelers, bikers, chase scenes, car jumps and of course, the Bandit Trans Am.

Now that you’re older and more financially capable, there’s no reason to settle for Revel Trans Am models and closed-eyes fantasies of Sally. Well, you’ll still have to settle for the latter, but you CAN get the Trans Am. And even better, you can get a brand new bird built on the 2010 Camaro chassis.

The guys at Gear Head Performance Group have a new Trans Am conversion in the works, and get this; it comes with an optional twin turbo 6.2L LS9 pushing out 900 hp! These guys are obviously smoking more than smokies over there—and we like it!