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Rough Start: It’s Blue And Beautiful, And It’s Within Budget! This 1974 Oldsmobile Cutlass Needs A New Home, Stat!

Without question, the most popular 1973-77 GM A-body variant by sales was the Oldsmobile Cutlass. The Cutlass was usually in the top 10 best-selling car lists during that time period, and in 1976 it...

Cars and Coffee: Muscle, Exotica, Hot Rods, An Awesome Mix Of Cool Cars

Words and photos by Kaleb Kelley) – Down here in the south, the car show season is already beginning again. Cars and Coffee this February in Plano, TX had a huge turnout. The first really good...

Jeremy Clarkson Has Been Suspended By The BBC – All Over A Late Dinner

Reports are coming out that not all is well in Top Gear land. According to Car Throttle, Jeremy Clarkson, the loud and brash host of the show, has been suspended following “a fracas” with...

Ebay Find: The Most Optimistic Yugo Owner In The World!

The Yugo GV…that horrid, miserable little cube of a car that couldn’t get out of it’s own way. The mailbox with taillights. Rolling birth control. One could go on for ages about the...

Virtual Trip: Take An Off-Road Ride On The Trails Of Australia’s Baal Bone Gap

Generally, when we have covered anything Australian with an engine, 99% of the time it’s a tire-shredding beast of a car with a blower that makes unholy amounts of power and noise at the same...

Detroit Autorama 2015: Photo Coverage From DRD Photos – Ridler Contenders, Race Cars, Hot Rods, More!

(Photos by Dom Damato/DRD-Photos) – Chip Foose took home is 4th Ridler award in 13 years at the 2015 Detroit Autorama, earning the honors for constructing a 1965 Impala called “The...

Random Car Review: The 1987-89 Subaru RX – The Predecessor To Every Performance Scooby Made Today

Consider this Subaru’s true Genesis moment for performance. Before the WRX and STi, before the 22B that was brought over from Japan to tease the motorsports press, we had a two...

The Solar-Powered Plane Has Started It’s Five-Month Trek Around The World…And Life Is Going To Suck For The Pilots

Solar Impulse 2, the solar-powered aircraft, has started it’s around-the-world trek today, flying the first leg from Abu Dhabi to Muscat, Oman. It’s one leg of what will become a...

This Concept Ferrari F1 Is Meant To Do One Thing Only: Aggravate Formula One Into Action

Bernie Ecclestone isn’t a man who takes criticism. As the dictator leadership behind Formula One, he has pretty much implemented a “my way or the highway” approach to how teams...

OK, Now You’re Just Showing Off: BMW’s Self-Drifting Car Versus A Real Drifter

Autonomous technology has been making leaps within the last year or two, and we’ve seen the results when the car is allowed to run to the limits of it’s grip (think the RS7 that Audi sent...

Ride In An Opel For A Ripping Frozen Run At The Merrill Ice Drags! This Thing Is Greatness

(Video by Jacob Marshall) – Alright, we have showed you photos, we have showed you video outside of the cars of the Merrill Ice Drags, and now we’re taking you into the cockpit of an ice...

Watch Sheldon Creed Roll His Stadium Supertruck Over The Finish Line At Adelaide! Drives Off With A Podium Finish!

Sheldon Creed may not have taken first place during the Stadium Supertrucks race at the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide, but he took home third place, Crowd Favorite and every style point available with his...

In-Car And External Footage of Ott Tänak and Raigo Molder’s Crash Into A Lake At Rally Guanajuato México

This is the kind of footage that underscores the dangers of rally. Driver Ott Tänak and co-driver Raigo Molder were running on a dirt road next to a reservoir on a stage in the Rally Guanajuato...

Your Morning Wake-Up: A Pantera GTS Screaming Around Franciacorta!

The De Tomaso Pantera is the mid-engine supercar that three out of four American manufacturers were trying to build in the early 1970s. Chevrolet had always been toying with the idea of a mid-engined...