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
Car reviews, sneak peeks, controversy made for a lot of news the past week. Get the recap below.
- The ‘All-Access’ Tony Stewart interview from NASCAR.com
- Uber gets love from riders and drivers, but not everyone
- Sneak peek at the new Chevy Silverado front end
- Big praise for the small Buick SUV
The weekend is back and so is the Datsun. Just not in the USA.
- The North American Car and Truck of the Year short list
- The “Disconnect” between the U.S. Economy and U.S. Auto Market
- Comedians in cars and they’ll still getting coffee
- Kyle Busch hates on Toyota and promptly apologizes
Transit maps are way more prettier than road maps and three day weekends are way better than two day weekends. Have a great Labor Day!
- Matt Kenseth will drive the #20 Joe Gibbs Racing Home Depot car next year
- 2014 Mazda6 revealed in Moscow and it looks like a Mercedes
- End of the month is the best time to buy a car
The Daytona 500 is about the biggest thing happening in the sports world this weekend. Catch it Sunday at 1PM on FOX. After it ends don’t forget to watch The 84th Academy Awards on ABC at 7PM. We say this only because the movie Drive has been nominated for Best Sound Editing.
- Naming a car isn’t as easy as you might think
- Dude puts gun rack in his Chevy Volt to spite Newt Gingrich
- Swedish man found alive after being trapped in car for two months
- American bus manufacturers have golden opportunity in China
- The Dodge Dart will drive a lot like the Alfa Romeo Giulietta
We have some bad news and good news. Bad news is Saab has to sell all of their classic cars- that story below. Good news? Today is Friday.
- The bankrupt Swedish automaker Saab is liquidating 120 classic cars from their museum
- Chinese man stages a protest and accuses of Porsche of discrimination
- The average age of a car in America is a almost 11 years old
- The art of building NASCAR tribute cars
If you’re reading this and you live in or around Detroit, turn off your browser and go to the North American International Auto Show. If you’re not in Detroit and you’re reading this, here’s what happened last week in case you missed it.
- The Solowheel better not be the future of motoring
- The Pontiac Facebook page is celebrating Fiero month
- Time-lapse video of an Alaskan man saving his car buried under snow
- Maserati officially announced they will build a luxury SUV in Detroit
- Robbie Gordon was disqualified from the Dakar 2012 because of illegal engine modifications
As November closes in towards Thanksgiving, a couple of things have to happen. First, lots of delicious turkeys have to be brutally killed for next Thursdays festivities. Second, the finale of the Nascar Sprint Cup season will culminate in a battle between Tony Stewart and Carl Edwards this Sunday. Until these two things happen, check out the links below this picture of an Alfa Romeo American roads will never see.
- For more pictures of all the cool cars America rarely sees, check out Simon’s Car Spots
- Consumer Guides Auto created a gallery of the “weird and wild” cars from SEMA
- Edmunds InsideLine’s intel report on the the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette C7
- What’s really better for the environment: diesels or hybrids?
- Jimmie Johnson is going to come out on top in the 2012 Nascar season
Welcoming in the weekend is this Friday’s edition of “Putting it into park” with the most essential and almost essential automotive news and links from the past week.
-Has anyone actually ever seen a Suzuki Kizashi in person? [link]
-This commercial is the most unrealistic portrayal of how motor racing works. [link]
-Speaking of unrealistic things, the Fast Five DVD has just been released. [link]
-Top Gear set to hold alternative olympics and Jeremy Clarkson will compete. [link]
-GM partners with RelayRides to let GM owners rent out their whips. [link]
-Ford will let the public into their proving grounds for the first time ever to raise money for charity. [link]
-The video below is one of the closest calls on a motorcycle caught on tape. [link]