The First Driving Game for a Home Console Required a Hell of a Lot of Imagination and Some Math

I’ve covered some of the history of driving and racing video games before, including finding the driving video games, tracking the , and, of course, of all. Today I want to give you a look at the first auto racing-based video game for a home console, way back in...

May 2, 2025

The Tweel Revolution Is Coming

Tire technology has advanced in leaps and bounds over my lifetime, and certainly over the last 15 years. Michelin have been trying to make Tweels a thing for as long as I can remember, and finally has GM on its side to develop a production-ready Tweel-based “Uptis” tire. Uptis...

May 2, 2025

The CLA35 Shooting Brake Has Extra Room To Fit All of My Love

Mercedes-AMG Tuesday showed off a long roof version of the CLA35 and I’m absolutely smitten. There’s more of everything to love; more swoopy bodywork, more glass-filled greenhouse, and more of that glorious bright yellow paint. It’s a turbocharged all-wheel drive wagon, and you can’t really ask for more than...

May 2, 2025

Helicopter Rescue Briefly Becomes Carnival Ride From Hell

First responders airlifted an injured 74-year-old woman off Piestewa Peak near Phoenix, Arizona on Tuesday morning. She was reportedly recovering by the afternoon, but bad luck and a little wind made what was supposed to be a gentle lift look like Air Force pilot training in the most un-fun possible...

May 2, 2025

Babes in Toyland — 'Bruise Violet'

Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we’ll provide the jams. Life changed for me after I found Babes in Toyland. ...

May 2, 2025

Tesla Is Making a Ton of Money Off of Everyone Else and You Didn't Even Know It

How gas-powered car purchases help keep Tesla going, Toyota’s warnings about the Trump administration’s proposed Mexican tariffs, more tariff news, the latest on the Fiat Chrysler-Renault relationship, and new electric-vehicle partnerships. All this and more in for Wednesday, June 5, 2019. The had an interesting take on electric automaker...

May 2, 2025

The Outrageous FV Frangivento Asfane DieciDieci Wants to Be the Italian Koenigsegg

Ever heard of FV Frangivento? If you haven’t, you’re not alone—the Italian automaker has only recently unveiled their outrageous 996 HP Asfane DieciDieci. But the company is already dreaming big. The Asfane DeiciDeici debuted on May 30 at the Turin Automobile Museum, , three years after the first concept...

May 2, 2025

Framing John DeLorean Is the Story of a Man Whose Life Was Too Colorful for a Black and White World

The narratives around John Z. DeLorean usually go one of two ways. He’s either remembered as an iconoclastic hero of American motoring, a David who fought one Goliath after another until he lost everything in an unfair and overzealous prosecution by the U.S. government, or scorned as a charlatan...

May 2, 2025

Tracy Morgan Buys a Used Bugatti Only to Get It Sideswiped 30 Minutes Later

Man, poor Tracy Morgan seems to have the worst luck with cars and driving, sometimes. It was he was in, severely injuring him. This accident, of course, is far less serious, but very news-friendly because it involves a Bugatti Veyron he only managed to drive a half mile away...

May 2, 2025

There Is Yet Another Dodge Charger Special Edition and This One Is Black or White

One of the things that makes so wholesomely Dodge is that it regularly and eloquently debuts new editions of its , keeping the masses happy and spending money in spite of the fact that their flashy new car and its flashy new style . It’s a true, black-magic kind...

May 2, 2025

The GMA T.50 Is a Wildly Muscled Super-Light Car From the Designer of the McLaren F1

Gordon Murray, the designer of the iconic that put the driver in the center and became the supercar of the 1990s (), in the year 2019, has a new supercar in the works. That new central-seater supercar, according to his car company, is a whole lot like the McLaren...

May 2, 2025

The 2020 BMW M8 Is a 600 HP Rear-Wheel Drive Flagship 30 Years in the Making

Back in the early 1990s, BMW was playing with the idea of a 550 horsepower version of its classic sports car, infamously developing a prototype that never made it to production, and was only discussed in detail years after its development. Fast forward 30 years, and the is here...

May 2, 2025

Why Is Drag Racing Called Drag Racing?

I have a lot of respect for the sport of drag racing, partially because I believe there’s a lot more nuance and complexity to it than most people think, and also because because I’m a moron. One thing I’ve never fully understood, though, is the name: why is called...

May 2, 2025

Fiat Chrysler Abruptly Backs Out of Merger Negotiations With Renault: Report (Update: FCA Confirms)

Just over one week ago, Fiat Chrysler executives laid out a formal offer to a “merger of equals” with French automaker Renault. Today, , that offer has been abruptly rescinded after the second day of negotiations came to a close. According to WSJ sources, the negotiation process came to...

May 2, 2025

Major Fiat Chrysler Executive Has Filed a Whistleblower Lawsuit Against the Company

In the wake of a fraud investigation over Fiat Chrysler Automobiles screwing with sales figures, reports that the company’s Head of U.S. Sales Reid Bigland has filed a lawsuit against FCA alleging that he was scapegoated and had his pay cut in retaliation for cooperating with the SEC. Bigland...

May 2, 2025