Carroll Shelby, the legendary auto racer and high performance auto promoter has died at the age of 89 this past week. His long association with high performance Ford products led to the legendary custom Ford Mustangs marketed under the Shelby nameplate along with the awesome AC Cobra and other specialized Ford products. Despite spending much [...]
The 1934 Morgan Super Sport was an unique trike-based sports car. It featured a front mounted 1100cc motorcycle engine on display along with the unique trike three wheeled design. Morgan actually built three-wheeled sports cars until 1952, partly due to a tax advantage enjoyed in England on motorcycles compared to automobiles. Yet, the 1930′s models [...]
Chrysler is bringing back the famous Dodge Dart nameplate for their new Italian designed subcompact that they hope will appeal to BMW type buyers. The Alfa Romeo designed subcompact will have a decidedly European look and should give the Fiat controlled Chrysler company another hot new entry to market. Although the price starts in the [...]
Martin Aeroplane Factory was a fixture for years, but it is a little known fact that owner James V. Martin made three failed attempts at producing an automobile. Martin had hoped to interest other automakers in his automobile designs, but none were interested in producing his three unusual prototype automobiles. His last, the 1950 Martin [...]
Trabant, those horrid little cars from East Germany built during the old reign of Communism were actually the first cars to be largely made from recycled materials. Much of the body panels were made from a material known as Duraplast, which was made largely from recycled cotton waste, cardboard and plastic material. As bad as [...]
During the early 60′s model cars were huge with teenage boys until The Beatles became a worldwide phenomenon, and young guys slowed their model building to buy an electric guitar instead so they could start a garage band and get girls like The Beatles. Ed “Big Daddy” Roth was like a cult figure to many [...]
For 2015(actually available sometime in 2014) Ford is planning the biggest changes ever to the Ford Mustang, making it into a high tech sports model that will no longer look like a retro version of the first Mustangs. Also to meet tougher CAFE, or fleet economy standards, the new Mustangs will likely feature some sort [...]
A 1959 TIME Magazine honored the late great George Romney, the father of current presidential candidate Mitt Romney. The elder Romney had a very fascinating life story. He was the grandson of a some polygamous grandparents who faced persecution in the United States, so a large group of American Mormons were living in Mexico. But, [...]
Like a broken record the Obama Administration is nearly daily marketing some myth that increased U.S. oil conservation will somehow lower oil prices. And simply a myth is what this is. The truth is that for it’s 300+ million person population, the U.S. actually uses far less oil per capita than many smaller nations such [...]
The reality of $4 or $5 a gallon gas doesn’t seem to be helping the sales of GM’s $39, 145 plug-in hybrid electric cars very much. GM only sold a meager 1,626 of the high mileage, high tech automobiles so far during the first months of 2012 compared to the 45,000 hoped for 2012 sales [...]
Greenpeace environmentalist demonstrators don’t seem to care much about $4, $5 or even $6 a gallon gas, and have taken over a ship with oil headed for Alaska sailing from New Zealand. Actress Lucy Lawless, 43, was among these demonstrators, and went way too far in their occupation of the ship, leading to arrest on [...]
Toyota’s Scion xB has been such a success story that you could only expect some sort of ripoff version to eventually hit the market. Well, Great Wall Motors, China’s largest SUV producer has also gotten into the automobile business as well in recent years, and Great Wall’s CoolBear sure looks an awful lot just like [...]
As a sure sign that GM has successfully restructured their worldwide corporation, the company reported a record $7.6 billion dollars in profits for 2011. Further, a profit sharing program with UAW GM workers also promises many employees a $7,000 bonus check as well. All of this is very good news for a company that in [...]
File this under simply unbelievable, but those geniuses over at Honda have decided to cast actor Matthew Broderick in a FERRIS BUELLER reboot Super Bowl ad to promote their cars! This is simply unbelievable because Broderick was found guilty in an Irish courtroom of causing a fatal accident which killed a mother and a daughter [...]
In an absurd effort to make the new leader of North Korea into a god-like entity, the state is beginning a wave of absurdist propaganda to brainwash the population from cradle to grave about the great powers of their new leader. A new claim is that Kim Jong Un was able to master driving a [...]
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