The 80s were a weird time for automotive manufacturers with new emissions regulations and lots of innovation coming down the pipe. Domestic brands were especially scrambling as they faced increasing competition from Japanese rivals making a name for themselves. In 1987, Buick engineers did something wild and put together the Buick Grand National GNX, or…
You probably deal a lot with expiry dates in your routine life but I bet you never thought to think about it with your car cleaning supplies. I mean after all, you buy them and store them in the garage or a shelf in a workspace, they can’t go bad… can they? Long story short,…
Full disclosure, the car market has been insane this year, so it’s difficult to really embrace what defines a “bargain” these days. However, I’ve done my best to put together some of the best performance car bargains you can get in 2021. As always, this does not necessarily mean cheapest although some of these cars…
The other day I was driving my friend to pickup his car from the dealer and he was shocked to see I have a dashcam in every vehicle I own. I’m not surprised, I often do get the “is that really necessary” comment from folks and I always reply, “yes it absolutely is”. Dashcams have…
As strange of a year 2021 has been for car sales (and pretty much everything else) there are still some good deals to be had. Of course, these become greater deals when you consider that these cars will become collector cars and their values will significantly increase. Don’t expect to be able to find these…
Recently we featured a Ford GT40 that was up for auction so that is the inspiration for today’s Throwback Thursday, the Ford GT. The Ford GT is a mid-engine two seater sports car that hit production for the 2005 model year. The GT focuses on Ford’s GT40, a historically significant vehicle when considering the racing…
Nameplates bring heritage and pedigree to a brand, and they literally define the vehicles. We have seen entire lineups fail because of terrible nameplates that made sense. Of course on the flip side there have been name plates that have inspired so much more than just automotive sales. It’s understandable that sometimes manufacturers do have…
You ever hear the saying, “fast, reliable, cheap, pick 2”? It couldn’t be truer with cars, especially sports cars. Seriously, we’ve all heard the tales of guys who’ve picked up something that looks decent or is fast, or even both and then they’ve dumped their life savings in keeping it running. Heck, some folks are…
So, you’ve done a ton of research, you’ve searched the web and found your car. Heck you even went and met with the private seller, check out a car, asked questions and you might have even had a pre-purchase inspection done on the vehicle. Then you negotiated and even paid for this vehicle, surely all…
Ford v Ferrari was one incredible automotive film released in 2019 that follows a team of American and British engineers and designers, led by Carroll Shelby and his British driver, Ken Miles. The team were brough together by Henry Ford II and Lee Lacocca to build a new race car, the Ford GT40, and to…
