[portfolio_slideshow id=11564] Ford Motor Company held its annual SEMA press conference on Tuesday — and they brought a few friends with them. Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top helped kick off the event and introduce Ford’s SoCal Speed Shop 1933 Ford roadster. Representatives from the SEMA Businesswomen’s Network debuted their SEMA Powered by Women Mustang project. And
[portfolio_slideshow id=11497] Although General Motors was heavily focused on economical vehicles at this year’s SEMA show–including a seemingly endless lineup of Cruze, Sonic, and Spark concept cars — the company also made news that should make high performance die-hards happy, too. Among the highlights: The company unveiled a one-of-a-kind COPO convertible that will be auctioned off
Halloween is tomorrow. And that means, more candy, more It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, and more really scary TV shows and movies. It also means tonight is Devil’s Night—a night mostly associated with mayhem and Detroit, MI. And since Detroit is the automotive motherland, a list of our favorite scary cars and trucks from
General Motors Corp. on Wednesday introduced its new small-block Chevy engine—the LT1 6.2-liter V8—which will debut in the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette. The base C7, powered by this fifth-generation small block will make at least 450 horsepower and 450 foot-pounds of torque while demonstrating 26-miles-per-gallon fuel economy, according to The Detroit News. GM officials say the
[portfolio_slideshow id=11118] We like television. We like cars. And we really, really like television about cars. One of our favorite current car-related shows is History Channel’s Counting Cars, which follows the car conquests of Danny “The Count” Koker. You may know The Count from his role on History Channel’s Pawn Stars, where he made regular appearances as
Thousands of cars and trucks may be equipped with dangerous counterfeit air bags that won’t deploy when needed, or may even fire dangerous shrapnel at drivers and passengers if they do, U.S. government officials said this week. Who is at risk? Anyone who has had an air bag replaced in the past three years at
The crew at PowerSports Place captured some pretty sick video of Team FMX doing what they do. The motocross stunt team put on an awesome show at Summit Racing’s TruckFest earlier this month. We loved it. The crowd loved it. Hopefully you will too. It’s easy to forget how dangerous some of these tricks are
It’s the stuff gearhead dreams are made of. Believe it or not, this battered 1968 Mustang was infamous in the late 1960s and early ‘70s as the ride of choice for a group of rumrunners, street racers, and general hell-raisers in the Catskill Mountains of New York State. It was the kind of car that
Anytime there is only six of something, we can’t help but take notice. Especially when that something is Buffalo wings, or adult beverages, or in this case—a super-rare 1946 Ford Coupe Utility of Australian descent that we spotted at Summit Racing’s TruckFest last month. It is one of only six registered in the United States.
It has been 27 years since Route 66, America’s original east-west highway connecting Chicago to Los Angeles, was decommissioned. Now, it seems the Mother Road is making a comeback of sorts. In 1999, the National Route 66 Preservation Bill was signed into law. Disney Pixar’s Cars movie brought the legendary road back to life (at least for
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