By John Coyle
Editor
Probably, it did. Too much CGI, too much stupid green-screen acting. Too much crap dialog. I haven' t watched it, but regardless, I will. So I want to know: Is it waste of time or not? Best critique...
By Rob Einaudi
Editor-in-Chief
When I first saw the pic of this '67 Camaro I assumed it was a photochop. Not so. Want to know the full story? Watch this video....
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
Guess what the cat dragged in? Here at the Tire Rack headquarters in South Bend, the start-finish line for One Lap of America, the Dodge Challenger SRT that wrecked back at Road America rolled up to join the...
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
Buzz Clarke and Joel Lipperini started out on One Lap of America with a tough Acura NSX, but it soon blew its engine. They disappeared from the tour for most of the events, but then turned up at...
By Rob Einaudi
Editor-in-Chief
Pontiac fans--or anyone interested in 60s drag racing and muscle cars--should check out this thread at PerformanceYears.com. Keith Seymore's father raced for the Royal Pontiac dealership in Michigan back in the 60s, and there are some great stories...
By John Coyle
Editor
While I love the concept of a hyper-efficient, totally green motorcycle, I have to admit that Intelligent Energy's ENV Bike does sketch me out. Why exactly? Well, since the power comes from a fuel cell, it's whisper quiet,...
Farren West is the owner of Key Inspection Services and is a contributor to the Seattle Condo Blog.
Many people feel there isn???t a need to inspect new construction because the home has been “Code” inspected by the city. And,...
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
It must've been a combination of abused tires and the measly glaze of rain on the track that helped make this hairpin even more treacherous than it would be normally. Either way, a whole mess of cars spun...
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
Nope, it's not fried rings. But the supercharged fastback Mustang driven by Dave Goodman has a moderate transmission leak that's dribbling gear oil onto the exhaust. The car is also having some vapor-lock issues, and the team was...
By John Coyle
Editor
GM has just announced that Caddy's new 550 horsepower hot rod has broken the Nurburgring record for a production sedan. Take that BMW! The blistering time of 7 minutes and 59 seconds was set this morning, and GM...
By John Coyle
Editor
After months of denying any wrongdoing in the August 26th accident that left his friend a vegetable, Nick Hogan appeared in court today and plead guilty to felony reckless driving involving serious bodily injury. It's not terribly surprising...
By Ben Schaffer
Bulletproof Automotive
I'm all for functional aerodynamics, but am I the only person noticing just how ridiculously long these front underboards are protruding from the nose of the car? I feel like just in the past six months...
By John Coyle
Editor
Ah, Friday the best day of the week. Of course, it's even cooler when you get to leave work early, and that's exactly what I'm doing today. Good times. Anyway, here's the news:
I think that bikes and cars...
By Rob
Editor-in-Chief
This is the second Showroom Showdown that has been too close to call. The last one was the Accord Coupe vs. the Altima Coupe in February. No matter how you look at it, these affordable RWD coupes will be...
By David
aka Highspeedhijinks
No, I'm not talking about the time you conned your buddy into seeing how many mini donuts he could stuff into his mouth, I'm talking about the smartuki. What's that? It's only the coolest Japanese and German collaboration...
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
Ok, the pics kind of suck because the camera was stuck on some kind of closeup setting—but this has to be the closest scrape I've seen so far on One Lap, so I had to share 'em. Robert...
By Rob Einaudi
Editor-in-Chief
Edmunds just the put the new Challenger up against the Mustang Bullitt. The Bullitt comes with a manual tranny, weighs 600 pounds less and is $5,400 cheaper. But the Challenger smoked it in the quarter, edged it out...
By Katherine Helmetag
AKA atomicalex
I have to own up to a huge hole I've had in my automotive background: I don't know poop about automatic transmissions. Until Wednesday, that is, when I spent the morning at Ford's Van Dyke Transmission Plant...
By David Wallens
GRM Editorial Director
After procrastinating for way too long, I have finally moved my CRX to the front burner. It's going to be my new track car, and the first order of business was to replace the world's worst...
By Ryan Douthit
Subiesport Magazine
One of the perks of my job is that I get a chance to go to some very cool places and, in turn, drive some amazing cars. Last fall I crossed the Atlantic to visit what I...
By John Coyle
Editor
The is probably the coolest redneck limo we've seen, and we can't wait to see what you all come up with. Do you think it has enough doors? You know the drill: come up with a caption for...
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
If you're ever traveling overnight to a racetrack that offers "garage suites" like Virginia International Raceway does—you must get one. The suite at VIR has a spacious bay down below and a full studio apartment up top—so it's...
By John Coyle
Editor
Since the Caption Contest has been generating so many entries, we decided it might be a good idea to start naming runners up in addition to the winner. How can we be so generous? We can't really explain,...
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
Check out all these tough One Lap cars launching off the starting line at the BMW Performance Center for their autocross session: the Lotus 7 replica, the Ford GT, the Ultima GTR, the Porsche 996, and the Challenger....
By John Coyle
Editor
Ok, I can see what Goodyear was going for here. After all, I'd prefer that my girlfriend not have to change a tire on the side of the road at night. But the dramatic music and frantic jump...
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
Our second stop yesterday after CMP was the BMW Performance Center, the manufacturer's world-class testing facility and racing school. The track was great, and the autocross course they'd set up was a great boon for our Boxer4Racing team,...
By John Coyle
Editor
This customized P1800 is posted for sale over on ClassicCars.com. Personally, I think the ghost flames look awful, and the hood scoop and grill are also pretty lame. But this vintage Volvo does have a few things going...
By Rob Einaudi
Editor-in-Chief
Not sure if you'd be able to fit a sheet of plywood in the back, but this '84 Vette with '91 rear and a functional tailgate is still pretty hilarious. $115k invested, first $35k takes it. More pics...
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
There's a 2009 GTR along on this year's One Lap, driven by Tony Swan of Car & Driver Magazine. They'll be giving full coverage of the event, but not until their September issue hits the shelves late this...
By John Coyle
Editor
Have you ever hopped in your car, only to discover it wasn't yours? When I was in college, I jumped into a Honda that wasn't mine, and my Mom just did the same thing yesterday with her Hyundai....
By Rob Einaudi
Editor-in-Chief
Some guy in California popped the hood of his F-150 to find a Pit Bull staring back at him. The pooch was stuck there for several hours, and before it finally wriggled its way out, managed to chew...
By Rob Einaudi
Editor-in-Chief
Last weekend a bunch of cool old Mopar cop cars turned out at the National Police Parade in Newport, Rhode Island. Examples include a NYPD '88 Diplomat and a RISP '79 Newport owned by Phil Masso, a CTSP...
Fellow Terrabloggers, our long sojourn in the blogging desert of MT 2.6x is coming to a close. On the weekend of the 6-8th of June we will be upgrading the Terrablogs domains to Moveable Type Open Source version 4.
MTOS...
By Rob Einaudi
Editor-in-Chief
A few weeks back I asked you guys to submit questions to forward to the developers at Codemasters about their new game GRID. Well, they just got back to me with some answers--from Ralph Fulton, Chief Game Designer,...
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