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
Tesla engineers don’t tap beer kegs like the rest of the world.
- The best and worst cars driven in 2012 according to Jalopnik
- The times people die behind the wheel
- Vanity Fair’s Top 5 New Cars for 2012
- Edmunds Inside Line is history
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
A record 14 cautions happened at Kansas Speedway over the weekend during a Matt Kenseth win.
- The THX sound system is one reason to buy Lincoln.
- Mini has built an amphibious Cooper
- Production of the 2014 Corvette is slated to begin August 2013
- 100 year old Ford dealership’s first trade-in was a horse
Today, Formula 1 racing is the pinnacle of motorsports. Championship drivers are treated like gods, automobile manufacturers gain massive profits based on the outcomes of their teams (more specifically their cars) in the races, and most technologies in the car you drive has trickled down from years of F1 R&D. For almost 20 years, F1 racing has also been one of the safest motorsports in terms of casualty rate. Not a single driver has died in a Formula 1 race since the late great Ayrton Senna in 1994. [keep reading]
See that there? It’s name is Trixy the Creeprod and it may be the coolest car we’ve seen since the Eclipse of the Donk.
- What it’s like to drive around a “bigass” F250 truck
- This is how filmmaker John Landis documented slasher sales at car dealerships
- Consumer Reports likes the Scion FR-S more than the Subaru BRZ
The Costin Amigo, pictured below, was a rare sports car built in the 1970′s. We asked our Facebook fans if they thought it was hot or not and the consensus was pretty split. One thing is for certain..it’s the weekend.
- The VW Beetle convertible actually looks awesome
- Dealers must apply to get the new SRT Vipers on their lot
- ESPN answers your “burning questions” about the Brickyard 400
- The new F150 will have an aluminum body and shed 700 pounds
Start your week off leisurely with this slow-motion compilation of NASCAR, F1, Moto GP, Indycar, and more:
- The new Fiat 500 is being peddled as an immigrant
- The most expensive car crash in the world cost $31 million
- Hilter’s car got to New Jersey somehow
- Watch a review of what could become this decade’s McLaren F1: the Pagani Huayra
Remember the GMC Typhoon? How about Motorweek? (One is actually still around). Found in the depths of YouTube is Motorweek’s 1992 review of the Typhoon titled “Shelter from the Storm.”
- Detroit looked a lot like Detroit at the Grand Prix on Sunday
- Cars of the Royal Family: 60 Year Timeline in Photos
- War vets are rebuilding cars and their lives
- Pit reporter Dick Berggren will retire after a 32 year career