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  It sounds like a tall tale—the sort of tall tale that   a guy like Smokey Yunick   seemed to inspire. The kind where   most of it is true and some of it is not   and your uncle swears by   at least half of it . So we cocked an eyebrow and allowed ourselves a little smile when   this little 1972 Chevy Vega   in a very '70s shade of brownish gold popped up on Mecum Indy, brashly proclaiming that it featured a secret turbocharged motor that Yunick developed for GM. Sure, of course it does. And we have a bridge in Detroit to sell you. The tale is about as juicy as Chevy Vega stories get. Allegedly GM paid Yunick to see how much grunt he could extract from the stock L11 engine, a 110-horse four-banger that was anything but a performance engine. With a little Schwitzer turbo bolted onto a custom manifold, a ported head, and a rejected Rochester 350 cfm two-barrel carb, this experimental motor huffed a full 7 pounds of boost. And then … GM killed it.

  Honda's Odyssey minivan  is getting a new, somewhat unexpected-for-a-minivan trim level for 2023: The Odyssey Sport. Is it actually any sportier than a regular Honda minivan? No, but it is sportier-looking, which counts for something in the increasingly style-focused minivan segment (that also includes the S-package-equipped Chrysler Pacifica with similar blacked-out trim and wheels, the wild-looking Toyota Sienna, and the pseudo-SUV-ish Kia Carnival). The Sport slots into the middle of the 2023 Odyssey lineup, above the EX and EX-L and below the Touring and range-topping Elite. (The formerly entry-level LX model has been killed off.) To help the Sport stand out, Honda gives it Berlina black painted 19-inch wheels and a gloss-black finish for the grille, head- and taillight trim, door mirrors, and bumper accents. To help parents (or, hey, single minivan aficionados) feel a little racier, the interior is slathered in black leather with red-colored accent stitching, and Honda ...