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