Sad news to end the week. Carroll Shelby died in Dallas yesterday after a long illness. He was 89. Over the course of his life, the brash Texan had been a chicken farmer, test pilot and factory race driver for Allard, Maserati and Aston Martin. But he’ll be remembered best as an automotive designer. Few […] More »
By: admin | May 11, 2012
My Jaguar XJ6 had an automatic, and so did my old pickup. But all my other cars have been sticks, it fit those vehicles, but I’ve always preferred rowing my own gears. So it’s been depressing to see standards disappearing, and even more depressing to see what a dismal percentage of populace can drive one. […] More »
By: admin | May 4, 2012
First, let me say that I’m not in favor of people getting killed because of “unintended acceleration.” Nobody likes getting killed. But even though the big brains over at NASA weren’t able to find any fault with Toyota in those cases, the NHTSA wants automakers to install Accelerator Control Systems, which would cut the throttle […] More »
By: John Coyle | April 27, 2012
This is the kind of thing I really hoped was a joke. I seriously can’t believe that Lamborghini is going to build an SUV. If it was something like the LM002, I might have been able to stomach it. But I almost had a stroke when I saw this piece of crap. I’m depressed about […] More »
By: John Coyle | April 20, 2012
When you’re an editor of anything, you get massive amounts of press releases. It was true when I was writing about rock music, and now that I write about cars, it’s even more true. To make anything stand out of this unending torrent of media alerts, you have to work at it. So when I […] More »
By: John Coyle | April 13, 2012
Champion Oil’s Blue-Flame “Classic” 15w-40 Diesel Motor Oil is a purpose-built diesel motor oil specifically designed to meet the demands of diesel competition builders, racers, and enthusiasts of turbo and super-charged pre-2007 diesel engines.
By: admin | October 31, 2011
Edge Products, a company known for consistently raising the bar on truck performance programming continues the trend with the launch of the EvoHT, a high quality hand held programmer for use with late model Dodge, Ford, and Chevy gas and diesel trucks and SUVs.
By: admin | October 27, 2011
