This weekend is a holiday for football fans. Enjoy it and all the commercials too.
- The natural thing to do for one man after graduating high school was to open a car dealership
- How to spend $50,000 on vanity license plates
- Emmit Smith’s 1991 Mercedes Benz 500 that’s up for sales is a “classified P.O.S.”
- Used car market in China is booming
- The first car hit 100MPH in 1905
- An excellent documentary on rally legend Colin McRae
December starts tomorrow so you should probably shave off that Movember ‘stache unless your Geraldo Rivera. Before pulling out the clippers, get the recap of car news from the last full week of November.
- Thank China if GM brings back the Buck red white and blue
- GM is contemplating a Buick Grand National revival
- Fisker hires former marketing honcho at GM Joel Ewanick
- Best and Worst of NASCAR in 2012
- Truck driver sneezes then crashes into 10 cars
Over the weekend, Dodge won its first Sprint Cup Championship since 1975 and Lewis Hamilton won the U.S. Grand Prix in Austin.
- GM opens a second plant for Chinese economy brand Baojun
- Subaru might just be the best automaker in the U.S.
- Used car market in Florida is set to explode this winter
Fear not Danica Patrick fans, she will still be in the Go Daddy Super Bowl commercials this year.
- China won’t build cars for the U.S. anytime soon
- Should Toyota change the Prius look?
- This is the car that might save Lincoln
- Automakers should be media makers
Weekend time. Peace.
- Pictured above is a 1977 Ford Bronco restored by Rocky Roads – they have a great gallery
- Universal Hyundai in Orlando, FL has an in-house nail salon for patrons (and mechanics)
- 6 tips to remember when touring a car plant
- New cars are more expensive this year than last year
- Boeing projects China to spend $4.5 trillion on new planes
Does it feel like Tuesday? Not really. Do you ever expect to find baby tigers and pangolins in a car? Not really, but in Vietnam anything is possible.
- The Woodward Dream Cruise is for car people
- The King’s last race was Jeff Gordon’s first race
- The next line of Saab cars will be released in 2014
Drive didn’t get the Oscar nod and the Daytona 500 has been postponed because of rain. Catch it today at 1PM instead of ice fishing so you don’t end up like truck below.
- 36 cars fall into lake during ice-fishing tournament after the ice cracked
- Infographic: Top Gear’s Star in a Reasonably Priced Car
- China shuns Audi as the official car for Chinese diplomats
Have you started hearing Christmas music yet on the radio? If so, we apologize. In other, non-Christmas music related news, we’ve provided a tidy set of links from across the web below.
- A proposed license plate with the confederate flag was rejected by Texas
- Izod IndyCar announces a race scheduled in China for 2012
- The Nascar Sprint Cup Chase between Edwards and Stewart is about to be epic
- Mojo Motors is now on Google+ posting auto news, pictures and other sorts of silliness
- Five concept cars that the world will see in 2012