News & Car Culture

Buick Reportedly Resurrecting Grand National, T-Type, and GNX Nameplates

Buick is resurrecting the Grand National, GNX, and T-Type performance nameplates made popular in the 1980s, and the three models are likely to debut at the 2014 Detroit Auto Show,Edmunds’ Inside Line reported this week. According to the Inside Line story, each new model will share General Motors’ rear-wheel-drive Alpha platform introduced for the 2013

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Plymouth Rocks! A Thanksgiving-Sized Serving of Mopar Classics

[portfolio_slideshow id=12360] What could be a better way to celebrate Thanksgiving than by revisiting Plymouth? Since it’s too late to plan an educational trip to historical Plymouth, MA, we’ve revisited some of our other favorite Plymouths from the past year. Instead of Nina, Pintas, and Santa Marias, you’ll have to settle for this photo gallery of Roadrunners, Barracudas,

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Thanksgiving Photo Gallery: Automotive Turducken

What’s on your Thanksgiving menu this year? Turkey? Chicken? Duck? Why choose when you can have “turducken”—a dish that consists of a chicken stuffed into a duck, which is in turn stuffed into a turkey. Yep, it’s a real dish, and it’s essentially a combination of multiple ingredients to form one odd yet fascinating creature—a rare bird, if

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SEMA Purchases IMIS, Unifies Racing Industry Trade Shows

First it was PRI, now it’s IMIS. The Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) has acquired the International Motorsports Industry Show (IMIS) and will consolidate it with Performance Racing Industry (PRI) Show. While you take a moment to digest all those acronyms, we’ll also tell you the expanded PRI show will return to its roots in Indianapolis for

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Holy Horsepower, Batman…Six Batmobiles in One Place!

[portfolio_slideshow id=12226] Six Batmobiles and the Bat-Pod are currently finishing up a tour of sporting events across America to mark the upcoming home entertainment release of The Dark Knight Rises on December 4. The tour started October 27 at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, TX and included a stop at the LSU-Alabama football game earlier this month.

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6 Heroic Muscle Cars that Helped Shape Our Hobby

When you think of the United States military, a few words immediately come to mind: Power. Muscle. Heroic. What better car-guy way to honor the qualities of the U.S. Military than by compiling a list of our all-time most heroic muscle cars—cars that went above and beyond to enhance the hobby we love. See what we

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Video: The All-Electric BIGFOOT #20 Monster Truck

The all-new, all-electric BIGFOOT #20 is anything but your average eco-friendly vehicle. This monster truck operates on 36 ODYSSEY P1200 batteries—30 to power’s the truck’s electric engine at 360 volts, and six to power the steering and brake systems. Bigfoot 4×4 Inc. unveiled the world’s quietest monster truck at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas

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Mopar Announces New Performance and Customization Options at SEMA

[portfolio_slideshow id=11675] Mopar officials were joined on stage by comedian Jeff Dunham, but the company proved it’s not joking around about performance and customization options for its vehicles. Dunham was at Mopar’s SEMA press conference to unveil his custom 2012 Dodge Challenger SRT8 project vehicle and helped close out an eventful press conference which included

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Photo Gallery: The Halloween Edition

Happy Halloween! Celebrate All Hallows Eve with us by perusing our latest photo gallery. Some are frightening because of the imagery. Some are frightening because of the design. But all of them, to us, simply scream: Halloween. So, grab a fun size Nestle Crunch and some Skittles, and check out our Halloween gallery:   [portfolio_slideshow

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