Car Culture & Entertainment

Winter Games (Event #5) Figure Skating — Most Unique Vehicle Design

Figure skating. Pretty popular Olympic event among the hot rod and muscle car crowds. Second only to ice dancing, we hear. In addition to the pure adrenaline rush we all feel watching triple salchows and double toe loops, we also always get a charge out of the hot-rod attitude we see in figure-skating outfits. Unique

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Presidents Day Quiz: Match the Presidents to their Personal Rides

OK, this isn’t really a quiz as much as it is a game. Just think of it as an extension of all the parades and fun and partying you’ve probably been enjoying as part of Presidents Day. After all, this holiday ranks right up there–with Arbor Day and Columbus Day. Then again, Presidents Day would

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Winter Games (Event #4): Luge – Best Road Race Vehicle

We like speed. We like danger. We like Luge. It’s just that we’d make a few minor changes if we were in charge. For example, no more ice—we’re done with the snow and ice. And we wouldn’t lay down either. No way. Not manly enough. Instead, we’d straddle a huge piston-pumping rocket. Of course, we’d use pistons in place

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Winter Games (Event #3): Cross-Country Skiing – Best Road Trip Vehicle

  If getting there is half the fun, then not all road-trip vehicles are created equal. [pullquote align=”left|center|right” textalign=”left|center|right” width=”100%”] Rusty Griswold: “Dad, this is not the car you ordered!” Clark Griswold: “Settle down, Russ. Let me handle this. Ed, uh… this is not the car I ordered. I distinctly ordered the Antarctic Blue Super

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Winter Games (Event #2): Short Track – Best Drag Race Vehicle

Unless you like dudes in unitards chasing each other around in a circle, we think you’ll find the OnAllCylinders Winter Games version of short track more your speed. And when we say speed, we mean 6-second nostalgia Funny Cars, old-school cool Gassers, and late-model drag machines battling pass-for-pass for straight-line supremacy. While Sochi’s version of

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Winter Games (Event #1): Alpine Skiing – Best Handling Vehicle

What is the best-handling car on the planet? There are many ways to think about this. We settled on rally cars,and chose five that dominate that brand of racing, which we believe to be among the most-dangerous and daring anywhere in the world. With the more-famous Winter Games taking place in Sochi, Russia, we wanted

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Welcome to The OnAllCylinders Winter Games

While most of the world turns its attention to Sochi, Russia for the next two weeks, everyone with a little 110-octane coursing through their veins (you and us) should keep our attention right here. Because… We are proud to introduce: The OnAllCylinders Winter Games. While NBC inundates us with stories dripping with sentimentality and American

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Interview: A Few Minutes with Hot Rodding Legend Gene Winfield

[portfolio_slideshow id=27903] Gene Winfield has been customizing vehicles for longer than most of us have been alive. He has customized vehicles for many TV shows, movies, and commercials. Some of the shows and movies that have featured Winfield’s vehicles include Blade Runner, Robocop, Batman, Get Smart, and Star Trek. While visiting the Cavalcade of Customs

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Sneak Preview: See All the Auto-Related Super Bowl XLVIII Commercials Now!

Are you ready for some football? The “Big Game” is still three days away, but many of the Super Bowl commercials have been strategically posted to YouTube. We took the liberty of finding all the automotive-related spots and have posted them conveniently below. We then took the further liberty of ranking them from first to worst—at least according to

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