Podcasts by Johnnys Garage - The Secrets of Cars
I'm the mildly eccentric author of this car's enthusiast PodCast channel where I offer my Italian opinion about car's Secrets.
My passion is the meaning cars and their project had in the mind of their Designer, Producer, Clients.
On this channel, you'll find a weekly PodCast with car reviews, car brand reviews, car topics.
I believe there has never been a better time in human history to connect enthusiasts for cars and automotive!
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The Secrets of Opel Tigra 94, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2022-10-31T11:20:06
Opel Tigra of 1994, was a really good coupe car, based on Opel Corsa standard model, but modified into design and all the body panels to realize a small and affordable sport car, rea...
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The Secrets of Ford Puma 97, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2022-10-31T11:16:45
Ford Puma of 1997, was a really smart coupe car, based on Ford Fiesta standard model, but modified to realize a sport car, really nice to drive and anjoy on the road.
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The Secrets of Euro 7 and Euro 6, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2022-10-31T10:48:58
The Euro 7 limit for pollution of vehicles have been cjanged in their limits, in the last weeks, maybe the European Commission changed its mind about Internal Combustion Engine or, p...
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The Secrets of Alfa Romeo 75 Part 02, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2022-10-23T19:43:36
Alfa Romeo 75 deserve another Video to explain the meaning and the importance of this sedan car produced by Alfa Romeo Car Factory for the 75th anniversary of the brand. Based on the Alfetta mec...
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The Secrets of Alfa Romeo Alfasud 3° video, Italians POV | Johnny's Garage from 2022-10-15T12:28:35
Alfa Sud is an Italian brand of cars, born as branch of Alfa Romeo, to produce small cars for economic use. They have really interesting technical solution and good performance, even...
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The Secrets of Porsche 718 GTS, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2021-01-12T13:56:19
Porsche 718 GTS is one of the best sports cars for its average performance in every single element of the car itself. Balance of weight, available with the manual transmission, brakes, suspensio...
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The Secrets of Fiat 131, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-12-06T12:13:09
The Fiat 131 was born as a middle size car in 1974, produced within 1985, during an economic crisis for car industries due to the oil crisis. The heritage of the previous Fiat 124 is evident in ...
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The Secrets of BMW E30, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-12-05T16:52:49
BMW E30 is the most iconic BMW for me and my generation. It was the model that we had in our mind when we were teenagers when we were dreaming about cars without license driving when we still ha...
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The Secrets of BMW E21, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-11-30T18:41:53
BMW E21, is the Real Root of the BMW 3 Series that we love, the E30, the E36, E46. We can find in this car, the position, the layout, the stylistic-emblems of the 3 series. And overall, we can f...
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The Secrets of Mercedes W124, Matthew John Eyre thanks, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-11-28T12:29:15
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The Secrets of BMW 02 Series, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-11-28T10:58:41
BMW 02 Series, what else? This is the origin of All BMW sport sedan cars. This is the Mummy of the BMW M3. BMW, please, don't destroy all of this with the new BMW 4 Series frontal Kidneys-Beaver...
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The Secrets of Lotus Elan M100, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-09-27T15:54:47
Lotus needed an entry-level car and they decided to "dare" with a front-wheel-drive sports car, transversal engine, 1.6-liter (Isuzu) turbocharged IHI. 4 independent suspensions, 4 brake disks, ...
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The Secrets of Toyota GT86 (or FT86, or Subaru BRZ), Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-09-13T13:17:17
Toyota GT86, or Toyota FT86, or Subaru BRZ, was developed by these two big japan brands, on the base of Subaru Impreza chassis, but (luckily) only rear-wheels-drive, with atmospheric 2.0-liter 4...
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The Secrets of Ferrari 348, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-08-24T09:24:39
Ferrari 348 introduced many innovations compared to previous model 328 (derived from 308).
First of all a steel boxed frame and a removable rear sub-frame to speed up the removal of the eng...
The Secrets of Fiat 8V (Otto-Vu), Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-08-21T09:48:26
Fiat 8V, "Otto-Vu". After WWII, in 1947, Fiat wanted to build a car (a sedan) for the US market.
They switched from the V6 engine to the V8 engine to meet clients' tastes.
But after so...
The Secrets of Mazda RX7, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-08-18T09:05:44
Japan sports car with rotative engine, Wankel system.
Three generations across the 70s 80s 90s and beginning of 2000.
One of the best-balanced cars ever.
The Secrets of Alpine A110, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-08-11T11:17:29
Alpine produced a genesis of sports cars.
A110 is the most representative of the philosophy and DNA of this brand.
Lightness.
Precision.
Power.
Style.
The Secrets of Volvo 480, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-08-08T08:33:54
Volvo 480, is an original car made by Volvo for ten years, 1985 - 1995. The first front wheels drive of the brand, developed by Volvo, Renault, Lotus and Porsche, was pushed by a 1.7-liter 4-cyl...
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The Secrets of Lotus Esprit, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-08-06T15:25
Produced since 1976 within 2004 in 24 variations, this prolific cars is based on tubular central steel boxed beam. Four independent wheels suspensions, 4 disk brakes (first series with rear disk...
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The Secrets of Maserati 3200 GT, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-08-04T15:11:45
This Maserati is really significant for more than the simple reason of its name. The exterior design made by Italdesing of Giugiaro, the interior designed by Lancia designer Enrico Fumia. It was...
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The Secrets of Lotus Carlton/Omega (Vauxhall - Opel), Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-08-02T06:19:10
Lotus Carlton or Omega Vauxhall (in base on the market where it was sold) can be considered the first high-performance-sedan, that kind of car that new is represented by BMW M5, Audi RS6, Merced...
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The Secrets of BMW M1 E26, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-07-30T17:27
In the 70s, BMW needed a car to fight against Porsche in GT Championship.
So they established an agreement with Lamborghini to design and realize a sports car from white paper to race on tr...
The Secrets of Alfa Romeo SZ, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-07-22T09:57:46
Alfa Romeo SZ born in 1989, with its astonishing design made a fixed mark in the minds of Alfa Romeo enthusiasts. Last development of Alfetta platform (born in 1972), with all the evolution of t...
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The Secrets of Lancia Aurelia, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-07-21T08:32:40
During WWII, Lancia was thinking about the new car to substitute Lancia Aprilia.
They developed many different solutions on prototypes, as:
- middle V8 engine
- central drive stee...
The Secrets of Subaru Impreza, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-07-20T07:32:03
Subaru Impreza: Natural Born Rally Car. This is the "normal-production" car closest to what a Rally Car should be: - Low center of Gravity - no vibration engine, so high rpm without any pr...
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The Secrets of Chevrolet Corvette C1, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-07-18T08:55:35
Chevrolet needed a sports-car with simple but reliable mechanics and good performance.
After the first 6-line-cylinder engine version, not really impressive about hp, they put the for V-8-e...
The Secrets of Porsche 356, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-07-17T08:53:51
356 was the first step made by Ferdinand Porsche to make a sports car.
Starting from Volkswagen Beetle, the Team made a lot of changes to realize a legendary boxer, and during the 18 years ...
The Secrets of Mercedes W124, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-07-17T07:55:04
W124 is an iconic model that represents very well Mercedes in its evolution from classic Mercedes of 60s and 70s to the modern and actual system and process that Mercedes uses to realize cars. <...
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The Secrets of Audi TT, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-07-15T12:49:09
TT is a coupe car made by Audi since 1998. Based on the platform used for Golf and A3, exprime an original and unique design that immediately made this car as a piece of art. The first series ha...
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The Secrets of Lancia Fulvia Berlina Sedan, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-07-15T06:57:58
Lancia Fulvia was the last sedan project born and realized before Lancia was acquired by Fiat. Born in 1963 the production ended in 1972.
Classy, high-quality production and finishes, had t...
The Secrets of Chevrolet Corvair, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-07-14T14:00:22
Chevrolet in 60s needed an entry-level car to win against Europe-small cars after WWII was imported in the US. Competitors were Volkswagen Beetle, Renault Dauphine, and other middle-size cars, w...
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The Secrets of BMW i8, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-07-13T13:55:53
BMW i8, hybrid sports car stop production after 6 years and about 20 thousand pieces. What's the future of sports cars for BMW?
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The Secrets of Lotus Elise, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-07-13T08:03:58
Lotus Elise in 1996 took on the heritage of Lotus 7 idea into modernity and usability. But the high tech chassis, the fine suspension tuning, the lightness avoid the driver feeling into a superc...
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The Secrets of Honda NSX, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-07-12T14:47:27
Honda NSX. One of the best car ever made on this planet, in 1990 Honda released a total aluminum and alloy frame, suspension, car.
Engine with titanium rods, with 8.000 rpm V6, 270hp, and 1...
The Secrets of Honda S2000, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-07-11T16:30:31
Honda for its 50th anniversary decided to realize one sports car that had to show all honda technology but with a reachable price and they made the S2000. With its 2.0-liter, 4-cylinder engine t...
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The Secrets of Maserati Biturbo, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-07-11T07:57:13
Maserati needed a new entry-level model to change the Merak that was becoming quite old.
The moment was difficult for The Company just acquired by Alejandro De Tomaso, that had to face econ...
The Secrets of Jaguar XJ (X308), Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-07-09T18:15:27
XJ was the symbol-car of Jaguar for all 70s, 80s, and 90s. In my personal opinion today too.
The iconic design of the exterior, the driving behavior made that car be inimitable. And the X30...
The Secrets of Saab 96, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-07-07T15:30:12
Saab 96 was produced for 20 years (1960 - 1980) and was equipped with two strokes (3 cylinders) and four strokes engines (V4 cylinder, Ford origin). This car won a lot of rally competition with ...
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The Secrets of Porsche 911 (996), Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-07-07T09:56:08
Porsche 996 was the most controversial 911 ever, but even the most revolutionary in the evolution of the car.
New water-cooled engine (and with 4 valves per cylinder) New chassis New interi...
The Secrets of Saab 900, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-07-05T10:40:22
Saab 900 was the last model made completely by the Swedish Company.
Original in the exterior design, original in the mechanical layout, original in the interior design, original in the turb...
The Secrets of Volvo 240, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-07-04T12:14:52
Volvo 240 was one of the safest cars of its period and was sold all around the world for its affordability, its cargo room, and usability from the ice of Scandinavia till the desert of Arizona. ...
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The Secrets of BMW 850i (E31), Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-07-03T20:10:05
BMW 850 was an elegant and performance coupe made in Germany with the highest level of advanced in electronics for body and engine control at his time. Its design is beautiful even today a...
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The Secrets of Porsche 928, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-07-03T08:32:32
During the 70s Porsche was looking for an heir for model 911 and they think to make a car totally different in design and mechanical layout, with more room inside, more comfortable, easier to dr...
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The Secrets of Dodge Charger '68 - '70 Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-07-02T16:56:38
Dodge Charger's second series, made during 1968 - 1970, was the car used to produce "The Dukes of Hazzard", the movie that between 1979 and 1985 counted 147 episodes. During production they used...
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The Secrets of Ford Capri Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-07-02T16:18:09
Ford Capri, born in 1969 as the European equivalent of American Ford Mustang, with mechanical components from the Mk2 Ford Cortina, raised soon at commercial success. In 1973 was sold the ...
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The Secrets of Mercedes SL R129 Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-07-01T20:30:54
Designed by Bruno Sacco, this Roadster (on the base of W124 body modified) this car was a Masterpiece of design, technology, and performance. Available with a manual and automatic gearbox, with ...
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The Secrets of Bentley Mulsanne Turbo, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-07-01T19:59:35
Bentley in the 80s was the sports side of the medal of Rolls Royce cars. Sharing engines, body, and design with Spirit of Ecstasy, they found their ways to raise performance, increase the pleasu...
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The Secrets of Opel Calibra, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-06-29T13:43:40
Born from sedan Opel Vectra, was characterized by beautiful and aerodynamic design, high performance, low consumption, great room inside, and mechanical affordability. It is certainly an underva...
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The Secrets of Ford Escort Mk1, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-06-27T04:59:20
Ford Escort Mk1, born as a small family car for European markets, became a world car winner of competition during the 60s, 70s, 80s, and even today in historic competition. From 1.0 liter ...
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The Secrets of Mercedes 190 W201, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-06-25T15:55:13
Mercedes in the 70s begin developing the new entry-level model for the Brand. Design by Bruno Sacco, multilink rear suspensions, good aerodynamic, good dynamic driving, affordability, good...
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The Secrets of Viper muscle car (Dodge-Chrysler branded), Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-06-25T15:38:48
Viper was born in 1992 with a V10 8.0-liter petrol engine, 6 manual speed gearbox, 2 seats, no hardtop, and no driving controls. Human against machine full stop. 400hp and more than 600Nm ...
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The Secrets of Jaguar E Type, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-06-23T17:36:22
Jaguar E Type, a masterpiece of design, and mechanical layout. The most beautiful car of its age was astonishing for performance, design proportion, and even for the price. Enzo Ferrari sa...
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The Secrets of Peugeot 205 T16, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-06-21T21:02:46
Peugeot 205, born in 1983 and designed by Pininfarina, had to substitute the old 104. But 205 is bigger, nicer and very agile and quick on the roads. Begin to introduce faster versions, GT, GT 1...
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The Secrets of BMW E30 M3, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-06-21T20:54:45
BMW E30 M3, the first of the species. BMW 3 Series as base with M10 4 cylinder block with 4 valves heads, Paul Rosche developing engine, RWD, new aerodynamic body, better brakes, improved suspen...
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The Secrets of Ford Escort RS Cosworth, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-06-19T13:01:35
Ford Escort RS Cosworth is a wild and reliable "racing animal ready for rally competition". The regular sold car was better than more famous competitors.
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The Secrets of Autodelta (Alfa Romeo Competition Department), Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-06-19T12:51:14
Autodelta was founded in 1963 by Carlo Chiti and Lodovico Chizzola. The Company worked for Alfa Romeo, Zagato but even for Gilera, a famous Italian motorbike Company.
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The Secrets of Johnny's Garage, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-06-17T08:49:01
As a car enthusiast since I was 6, I lived in the 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s, and 20 loving the car's production in every aspect. Now running back abut previous periods to better understand the roots of...
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The Secrets of Porsche Boxter, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-06-17T08:41:24
Porsche needed an entry-level sports car, filling the space left from 924-944-968 series. But this time they used original Porsche's engine (not Audi tuned engine as per 924, 944, and 968) and m...
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The Secrets of BMW Z3 Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-06-16T11:33:12
Z3 as the first modern Roadster of BMW, based on E36 chassis with the rear suspension of E30. Seated on the axle of the back wheels you feel the behavior of the car's body on every turn.
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The Secrets of Lancia Trevi Bimotore (Double Engine) Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-06-15T13:05:38
Lancia in the 80s was looking to find back its identity as Brand of elegant but even race car, this prototype is the expression of one of this moment of research.
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The Secrets of Ford RS200, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-06-15T09:50:46
Ford RS200 was a good racing car, unfortunately, the B Group Rally competition was at the end of its life. The car is well designed and engineered with high performance and reliability. Analyze ...
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The Secrets of Porsche 911 Coherence Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-06-14T16:35:33
Porsche Coherence. Which other sports car brand has the same?
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The Secrets of Lancia Fulvia Coupe, Italian POV for the Last Lancia Masterpiece | Johnny's Garage from 2020-06-14T14:32:48
Lancia Fulvia Coupe was the last masterpiece of Lancia Car Factory before the acquisition by FIAT. The mechanical layout and body design was a gift to the world of the sports car and to Lancia l...
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The Secrets of Alfa Romeo Giulia GT Italian POV for a Masterpiece | Johnny's Garage from 2020-06-14T10:51
Alfa Romeo GT Junior was a great masterpiece of Alfa Romeo Car Factory before the acquisition by FIAT. After that, the Brand was no more the same.
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The Secrets of Torque Distribution on Cars Engines Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-06-14T10:28:20
The Torque Distribution on Engine rev is really important to know the character of your car, the behavior it has every time you push on the accelerator pedal.
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The Secrets of Weight Distribution on Cars Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-06-12T15:45:54
The Weight Distribution is really important to know the character of your car, the behavior it has every time you turn, brake, and accelerate.
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The Secrets of Italian Cars in 60s, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-06-11T13:24:19
The panorama of Cars Factory in Italy during the 60s was wider than today: you could find cars with several different engineering and layout solutions.
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The Secrets of Alfa Romeo 75, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-06-10T06:53:35
Alfa Romeo 75 is a sedan car produced by Alfa Romeo Car Factory for the 75th anniversary of the brand. Based on the Alfetta mechanical Layout, took this scheme at final evolution inside the Ital...
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The Secrets of Toyota Supra, Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-06-07T15:57:41
Toyota Supra was a Legend in the 80s and 90s. The New Toyota Supra is a really good car, built-in Joint-Venture with BMW that supplies frame, powertrain, and suspension. So where is the so...
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The Secrets of Lancia Delta HF Integrale Evoluzione italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-06-06T15:22:03
Lancia Delta Integrale (after it became EVOLUZIONE too) was the extreme development of the Lancia-Fiat project of the 70s. The car was a world rally championship winner 7 times and an absolute m...
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The Secrets of Porsche 911 Carrera 4 Cabriolet 964 Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-06-05T12:50:45
Porsche 911 Carrera 4 Cabriolet 964. Before driving it, this car always meant to me, sporty but quite GT, quite comforting in someway and not really emotional: how wrong I was! I still remember ...
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The Secrets of Ferruccio Lamborghini Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-06-04T15:11:41
Ferruccio Lamborghini was the founder of Lamborghini Automobili one of the best sports car producers of all time. Driven by emotion and passion for his job and his creatures, he was able to face...
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The Secrets of Alfa Romeo Giulia, real Alfa or copy of BMW 3 Series? Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-05-29T14:35:31
Alfa Romeo Giulia is a real Alfa or only a good rear wheels traction? Alfisti were waiting for 30 years or a rear traction sport sedan made in Italy, but this car has the same mechanical design ...
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The Secrets of BMW E9 3.0 CS M30 engine Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-05-29T14:32:54
BMW E9 is the root of BMW elegance, power, style, quality of construction, the pleasure of driving: this car has all the most important topics we love in a BMW. If only BMW will look back ...
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The Secrets of Porsche 924 Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-05-29T14:25:58
Porsche needed an entry-level car after the stop of 914 models. Porsche 924 begins as a joint production between Volkswagen and Porsche but became a Porsche project and production: only the 2.0L...
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The Secrets of Porsche 944 Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-05-29T14:23:15
Porsche 944 is the evolution of 924, with a 2.5L engine "totally Porsche", wider body, increased performance, better handling and brakes. In 944 S, Turbo, S2, Turbo S, the Transaxle of Stu...
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The Secrets of Fiat Bertone X1/9 Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-05-29T08:18:45
Fiat Bertone X1/9 is a small targa sports car produced by Fiat (in Bertone Factory) from 1972 till 1989. The car has a had a curious design story and has the chassis derived from Lancia St...
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The Secrets of Lancia Stratos HF Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-05-28T14:42:09
Lancia Stratos HF was born as the heir of Lancia Fulvia Coupe HF to continue the Rally competition. Wanted by Cesare Fiorio and Pier Ugo Gobbato, designed by the Master Marcello Gandini, a...
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The Secrets of Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale Italian POV for a Masterpiece | Johnny's Garage from 2020-05-28T13:22:01
Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale was a masterpiece of Alfa Romeo Car Factory, maybe the First Supercars, it made a philosophy for Italian Sports Car Factory.
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The Secrets of BMW 4 Series Coupe loosing its philosophy Italian POV | Johnny's Garage from 2020-05-28T12:04:32
BMW was a great sports car factory, but lately, he's been losing his philosophy.
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The Secrets of Audi and his Founder August Horch, Italian POV| Johnny's Garage from 2020-05-28T11:36:25
Audi founder, August Horch, was a man with a strong will, good ideas, and many innovations for the world of cars. After many difficulties he will be able to produce his own cars with his ideas, ...
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The Secrets of Porsche 914 from 2020-05-28T09:45:11
Porsche was looking for an entry-level car substitute for the model 912. Cooperation with Volkswagen (4 cylinder 1.6-liter engine donor), with Karmann for Design, and Porsche 911 (front suspensi...
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