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The Honda Civic may be known to most people as a rather prosaic, even boring, automobile. That, however, is without reckoning or acknowledging that the Civic actually has been a long-time contender in the “hot hatch” and sporty coupe markets for decades. In many parts of the world, the Civic Si (in…..

Does anybody remember the iconic BMW M1? The M1 was a Lamborghini-designed BMW mid-engined supercar from the late 1970s. It was BMW’s attempt to enter that rarefied marketplace occupied at the time by Ferrari and its 512BB, Maserati’s Bora, and Lamborghini’s own Countach. Sadly, because of various circumstances, the M1 never really…..

The Audi R8 is, I have to say, one of my favorite supercars. It’s got the perfect size (lots of supercars, even the ones I like a lot, are far too big), handsome styling, and a V10 that at full howl reminds me a lot of Formula 1’s glorious “V10 era.” The fact that it has…..

Hot on the heels of announcing the super-hot track-only Vulcan, Aston Martin has followed up with another racing-focused special, the Vantage GT3 Special Edition. Both the Vulcan and the Vantage GT3 Special Edition are making their public debuts at the Geneva Auto Show. The Vantage GT3 Special Edition is a racetrack-optimized version of…..

Admit it. You’ve got your biases. I know I have mine, especially when it comes to cars. I’ll admit that my car enthusiast heart goes at maximum revs for Lamborghini, McLaren, and, to a lesser extent, Koenigsegg. Everyone else would just blip my throttle, so to speak. Then I heard about Aston…..

Volkswagen AG announced that the final Bugatti Veyron – a targa-topped Grand Sport – has just been sold to a customer in the Middle East. Called “La Finale,” the 450th Veyron will grace Bugatti’s display at the Geneva Auto Show, which starts next week. While the Veyron is certainly not the prettiest supercar ever…..

Just when you thought you’ve seen it all, life throws you a curve ball, and you’re left unsure about what you’re looking at. CHERRY, maker of the world’s most popular mechanical keyboard switches, sent your humble scribe a couple of packages recently. The contents of one package will be the subject of an…..

Sequels… they’re either blockbusters (The Empire Strikes Back) better than the original or busts (Caddyshack II) that should have never seen the light of day. In the world of PC peripherals, it’s rare when we see a direct follow-up to a product. Kingston, though, bucks the trend with its new HyperX Cloud II gaming headset. Is it a blockbuster, or a bust?

Yesterday, we told you that Ferrari was set to debut its 488 GTB twin-turbo supercar at the Geneva Motor Show in March. Today, Ferrari’s greatest rival in Formula 1, and now a growing threat in the supercar market as well, McLaren, has teased its newest supercar, the 675LT, in a short video.…..

I used to be a hardcore Ferrari fan. Perhaps not as hardcore as I’ve always been with Lamborghini (the Countach is my eternal supercar first love), but more than a few of Maranello’s cars occupy my personal list of favorite supercars. Well, Ferrari’s newest, the twin-turbocharged 488 GTB, has just been revealed…..

All too often, design and style exist in conflict with each other. Form follows function, as the saying goes. But sometimes, we see products which are as beautifully-styled as they are well-designed. Corsair’s Graphite 780T full-tower becomes a perfect example of this – it’s great looking and functional. Let’s check it out.

EVGA, known primarily for its GPU, motherboard, and PSU product lines, jumped into the deep end of the gaming peripheral market last year with its interesting Torq X10 mice, which Techgage comrade Tom Roeder reviewed last year. If any of us thought that that would have been the full extent of the…..

Let’s face a fundamental truth here: Gaming gear is often expensive. Whether it’s that outrageously styled chassis, or that all-singing-and-dancing mouse with all the bells, whistles, and air horns, being a hardcore gamer would probably make your wallet wail like a banshee. Thank goodness, though, that there is still gamers’ gear available…..

CHERRY is famous for providing the most popular mechanical keyboard switches around, but did you know the company also manufactures its own line of mice and keyboards? In our lab is the company’s MX-Board 3.0, equipped with MX Brown switches. Let’s find out how interesting – or uninteresting – this plank is.

2015 is fixing to be a huge year for Honda. First the company is returning to Formula 1 as engine supplier to its old partner, Team McLaren. Back in the late 1980s, the McLaren-Honda alliance dominated F1, winning forty-four Grands Prix and four Constructors’ and four Drivers’ World Championships from 1988-1992. In…..

The USA isn’t really known as one of the world’s cradles for supercars. People think of Italy, Germany, the UK, even Sweden, as countries that produce legit hyper-performance cars. Well, Ford wants to shift people’s thinking. The Dearborn company introduced its new GT at the Detroit Auto Show. The new GT is an…..

Antec’s presence at CES 2015 may be, in this writer’s opinion, a bit muted than most, but the company does have a few things to show and talk about at this year’s show. It showed off a few chassis, including the P70 for entry-level users, the compact P50 for mATX and smaller systems, and…..

They say good things tend to happen in threes, and we’ve seen this at CES this year. ASUS announced not just one, but two trios of new gaming-oriented products. Thermaltake did, as well. Well, add the good folks at Mad Catz to the list of companies introducing new gear in a group…..

Thermaltake kicked off its CES 2015 activities with something cool by unveiling its new Pacific RL240 water cooling kit yesterday. Well, very hot on the heels of that debut is the announcement of a trio of Core X series cube-style PC chassis optimized for liquid-cooled systems. The Core X1, X2, and X9 are…..

Thermaltake has opened its CES 2015 activities with introductions of a couple of all-new items as well as an announcement heralding an update to its DPS G App software. Making their first public bows in Las Vegas are the Tt eSports SHOCK 3D 7.1 gaming headset and the THERON Plus+ SMART Mouse. The SHOCK 3D 7.1…..