Sunday is April Fools’ Day (No, really, it is!), so be on the lookout for pranks, gags, and other sundry acts of bamboozlery being lobbed in your general direction. So if someone offers you a...
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An overwhelming majority of sources assert that the Adam of the American muscle car species is the 1964 Pontiac GTO. It was certainly the first muscle car to be marketed toward leadfooted baby boomers, but...
The Geneva Motor Show is one of the auto industry’s best-known rites of Spring. Every March, the motoring world converges on the lakeside Swiss metropolis to gawk at all the new models (vehicular and otherwise)...
For performance enthusiasts on a budget, the “pocket rocket” – a compact, small-engined runabout tuned to strike a balance between performance and practicality – is manna from motoring heaven. And few nations have made as...
Theoretically, every racecar has the potential to be a championship contender when the team manager and drivers pull off the sheet and smile for the cameras. It isn’t until preseason testing is completed and the...
There’s nothing like a good rivalry to get a lively debate going. However, allegiances are seldom swapped, regardless of how compelling the arguments that are made may be. Fans of X don’t like Y or...
Ask most longtime motorsports fans what they think of corporate sponsorship in racing, and odds are favorable that they’ll tell you something along the lines of it’s a cancer on the sport, turning drivers into...
For the second time in about three months, the Las Vegas Convention Center is buzzing with the activity endemic to a major international trade show. And while November is when the automotive aftermarket has its...
The automotive world has made its annual convergence on Motown in the form of the 2012 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. And as has been the case with many recent major auto shows,...
For most of its existence, the pickup truck has merely been a four-wheeled tool. A vehicle free of extraneous frills and frivolities, intended as an internal-combustion-powered pack animal. But many pickup buyers, then and now,...