[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Szj0gCkFuk[/youtube] Most people remember Paul Newman as a decorated actor. Many folks are also aware he was a devoted philanthropist who funneled 100% of the profits generated by the food company he set up into...
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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDOid1weT5Q[/youtube] Yesterday seemed like pretty much any other Sunday, right? Well, if you’re a motorsports history buff, it wasn’t, because February 15, 2015 would have been Graham Hill’s 86th birthday. Between his substantial talent, dashing...
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/113158655[/vimeo] Most of you are familiar with the long-serving muscle car and hot rod adage, “There’s no replacement for displacement,” correct? Well, 103 years ago, Fiat engineers took that advice to an extreme that hasn’t...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MsAN0ETLss&index=12&list=LLCpNw5Fe-9YYS4duyxmzh0A[/youtube] Impossible though it may seem, it’s already Thanksgiving Day again here in the U.S. And in between munching on appetizers before the big turkey dinner and fielding questions from elderly relatives concerning such lightweight...
One of our very favorite video games for the PlayStation 2 was Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3. However, that title was rather misleading, because in addition to being able to race around the highways of Tokyo,...
With hefty insurance, registration and fuel costs (compared to here in the U.S.), more rigorous licensing requirements (ditto, though the same could be said of most other first-world nations, sadly) and, most notably, about 15...
Most people familiar with the sport of drifting are probably familiar with its origins: Japanese hoons congregating on mountain roads late at night, intentionally going through the corners sideways, competition to see who could take...
It may be hard to believe, living as we are in today’s hyper-competitive global automotive marketplace, that General Motors used to sell a little over half of the new cars and trucks in the United...
You might have heard that there’s a movie currently in theaters called Rush. You might have also (or read) that, as not just car movies but movies period go, it’s cool beans, daddy-o. But what...
A while back, we compiled a list of ten documentaries every gearhead should watch at least once. A good many viewers of that list would probably argue that there were at least two glaring omissions:...