Automotive accessories, in case you haven’t noticed, are big business. So big a business, in fact, that just about every original equipment manufacturer (OEM) is in on the act. Most such factory-blessed add-ons might help...
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The first muscle car era is looked upon fondly by both gearheads who lived through it and those of us who came along after it. Consequently, Detroit has spent much of the last decade catering...
As much as we’d love to see a new truly gearhead-centric TV channel in the mold of the original Speedvision launch and thrive here in the U.S., we realize that the chances of that happening...
It used to be that the inline-six was the internal combustion engine layout jack-of-all-trades. You’d see big, long-stroke ones powering trucks of all shapes and sizes, small and high-strung ones propelling sports cars, and medium-sized...
The phrase “race car for the street” has so much mileage on it that it could have gone to Uranus and back about six times. Of course, there are some instances where it’s correctly applied,...
Throughout the first half of the previous century, pocket-sized toy cars were few and far between. That changed in 1953 when the British manufacturing firm Lesney Products introduced its first Matchbox vehicles. The idea came...
Every new car launch is fraught with anticipation inside the walls of its maker. Odds are it will find a modicum of success, but there’s always the looming specter of it failing to rub the...
Classic cars that have reached collector status are easy to spot because, well, they’re the ones that show up the most often and bring the most money at auctions, specialty dealerships and other sellers. But...
Almost exactly one year ago, we brought you 10 of the most tasty-as-Timbits Canadian car market curiosities ever to cruise under the maple leaf flag. Today, in honor of Cinco de Mayo (which is not,...
As large and as lucrative as the U.S. new car market has been for virtually its entire existence, pretty much every major automaker has nevertheless kept the good stuff out of our hands on at...