Springfield Mile streamed this afternoon on Fanschoice.tv. What a series of races. Most were won on final straight passes and most were in a few hundredths of a second. The Springfield Mile is the oldest, currently running motorcycle race in the US. It is the Daytona 500, Indy 500 of the flat track series. These guys exceed 140 mph on dirt with no brakes.
Jaguar's Special Vehicle Operations has planned to build the six Lightweight E-Types the company forgot to finish way back in the '60s and damn if they aren't pretty. Photo: Jaguar
Keeping your gadgets charged is important. More and more our very lives are stored on our smartphones. If they die, we're cut off our friends, work email, and Reddit. There's also the nightmare of realizing your drone's battery is dying while it's 50-feet above a body of water.
We have heard a lot about 'tough sanctions' on Russia following its invasion of Crimea , shoot down of an airliner full of Europeans , and the continued shadow war in Eastern Ukraine , yet apparently it's fine to sell him this 21k ton French-built amphibious assault ship. Bad move.
Mopar enthusiasts/tire destroyers got their first look at the 2015 Mopar Challenger Drag Pak "test vehicle" at the NHRA U.S. Nationals Event in Indianapolis. They did burnouts, so you know it's pretty much exactly what you want if you're a Sportsman racer.
The car-based small pickup market was launched in Brazil by Fiat during the 1980s. Taking a 147 as its base, the Italians cut out the back seats, added a bed, beefed up the suspension and called it good. The market deemed it so, and soon, there was a whole new segment gracing Brazil’s roads, with […]
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There's been a bit of a fight over 16-year-old Dutch wunderkind Max Verstappen , who will be Formula One's youngest driver at 17 next year. Everyone wants a piece of the super talented young driver... although maybe the losers will feel better after seeing this video of him crashing his first F1 car.
Fiat's are great cars... when they work. The problem is they have this reputation of spending more time on the lift than on the road. But what if you combined Japanese reliability with Italian style? Can the VTEC keep this 1977 X1/9 kicking?
Watch this video and tell me you're not in love with "Taz Racing," which has loony Brits taking dinky little Fiat 126s and stuffing twin-cam Toyota engines and Chevy V8s inside to create the cutest little dragsters. But damn they're fast, too.
During a time when we're all watching police departments hoping they won't screw up, the Detroit Police Department seems to be, well, screwing up. They're doing a fine job with trying to clean up the streets, but communicating that message seems to be a challenge.
Aussie IndyCar driver and Jersey saluting meme Will Power just won his first IndyCar Championship and celebrated by doing this. It is perfect.
Strictly speaking, there was no reason for Ashley to attend old Frank Jacobsen’s retirement party. She’d been part of the department for all of five months and she’d spent most of the time doing the other engineers’ paperwork. It was true what they told her in school: To be a female engineer, particularly in Detroit, […]
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When last we heard about the sinkhole that engulfed part of the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, museum officials decided to keep it open as a tourist attraction . Today, however, they changed their minds, and the sinkhole will be no more.
Can BMW make the M4 Convertible to be as fun as its brother, the M4 Coupe? To find out, BMWBLOG headed over to Munich to sample, over a series of twistier and some high-speed cruising, the new 2015 M4 Convertible.
After much discussion regarding the merits of repairing the sinkhole that struck the Corvette Museum in February, and keeping in mind the seventy-percent boost in foot traffic afterwards, the facility has announced that it will be repairing the sinkhole, and restoring three of the eight cars damaged in the event, this November. The NCM announced […]
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Lee Duran of Lyme, Connecticut died today in a single car accident at the Lime Rock Historics earlier today. He was racing a vintage MG and lost control in the Downhill Turn. The race was black-flagged but the event continued.
ABC News is reporting that a private plane mysteriously wound up in the ocean, after having entered restricted airspace in Washington, D.C. It was met by fighter jets, but did not respond. Speculations abound as to the cause of the crash.
Everyone seems to have their own rally these days. The Gumball Rally. The Modball Rally. The Scumball Rally. The Gold Rush Rally. And that's all I have to say about that. But wow, do those cars look pretty.
Marilyn Hartman must really love flying, or planes, or airports. She made headlines just a couple of weeks ago for sneaking onto a Southwest Airlines flight from San Jose to Los Angeles without a ticket. She has been arrested again this week, at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport.
After a long period without any severe weather, the atmosphere appears primed for a potentially dangerous severe weather outbreak tomorrow across areas from Kansas to Minnesota. Some areas could see tornadoes, baseball-size hail, and winds in excess of 75 MPH.
Travis Pastrana didn't win the Ojibwe Forests Rally, but damn if he didn't look good losing. Photo: Subaru
Earlier this month, Foxtrot Alpha brought you an exclusive analysis of new satellite images that show the construction of a massive new hangar in a remote part of Area 51 . Now, high resolution panoramic photos have emerged of the base confirming just how monstrous this new hangar truly is.
What's going on here, exactly? We have a Zaztava 101 — a Fiat derivative from the good folks that gave us the Yugo — driving itself happily on a beach, meandering around until it finds one of those beach cellists. Got it.
Self-driving cars are most definitely the future. They have been for decades . For Google, that future isn't quite as close as you might think—as of right now, its autonomous vehicle would fail a driver's license test before it ever got out of the parking lot.
The N52-powered 6MT M Sport E89 is an interesting combination of new and old in a rather often overlooked roadster: the second generation of BMW's sports car/roadster. It has electric steering, an electric parking brake, a ridiculous name, and drive-by-wire. It's also RWD, has defeatable traction control, stiffer damping and heavier steering settings, a great 6 speed manual, and (perhaps most importantly) a silky-smooth naturally aspirated 3 liter inline 6 that begs to be revved to its 7,100 RPM redline every time you drive it. The N52 is the last of its kind (and, as a result, so is this E89 Z4), and while it makes nearly 50 HP less than the N54 variant Z4, I would rather wring out this lightweight and raspy engine any day. It's an odd mix that leads to both versatility and contradictions; fittingly, the car's defining trait is its ability to play both the roles of coupe and convertible. So, does this confusing combination of characteristics make for an enjoyable driver's car or just a mini-GT car? Read this rambling review of my own mother's car and find out.
It is no surprise that San Francisco is the number one metro area for EVs, but I would have never guessed that Atlanta would be number two. It seems Georgia dealers have not taken too kindly to this EV popularity and are now petitioning the state legislature to get Tesla shut-down.
The concept of the Renaultsport RS 0.1 is a strong one: Stuff a Nissan GT-R V6 into the back of a race car. Given Nissan's Le Mans plans it makes perfect sense to let their French cousins have a stab at it. Yet, all anyone can see is an R8.
With a German-Italian name like Karmann Ghia it may surprise you that the little coupe/roadster built on the Volkwagen Type I (aka Beetle) chassis had its origins not on the continent but rather a few thousand miles west of Europe, in Detroit, of all places. By the early 1950s, the postwar Volkswagen company was getting […]
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Nowadays when you see an ad for a car with any remote semblance of performance, you get imagery of adrenaline-inducing road-holding with the occasional monster or two. But back in 1978, ads for the Ford Capri liked to tout its "safe and predictable" handling. Bummer.
All the BMW fans and not only are most likely familiar with the BMW film series, The Hire. Averaging about ten minutes each, The Hire was a series of eight short films produced for the internet viewing from 2001 to 2002.
Let's play a game. I'll give you the facts and you see if you can diagnose my client's car. My client bought a brand new four-wheel-drive vehicle. He knew nothing about cars and probably never planned to take it off road like in the picture above. (The ones in traffic did not look as fun as this.) After a few weeks of city driving, he noticed a vibration. It was slight at first but it got worse. The vibration was present when he was moving, and got worse as the car sped up. He took it to the dealer.
While doing a bit of research for yesterday's Question of the Day , I came across one of those little facts that, upon hearing, makes you make one of those confused-disbelief faces the sitcoms like so much. The fact was that Superman once built a NASCAR racer. For a race sponsored by aliens.
