…Â Growing up in Pleasanton in the 1950s and living in a wrecking yard, all I could think of was building a hot rod. Times were really simple then. There were only two police officers in town (one for day and one for night) and if you drank too much, they’d simply drive you home. My father owned the only wrecking yard in the tri-valley area, and I was around cars all the time.
Roadsters were hot back then. A friend of our family came out to the yard one day …Â More
You could natter on endlessly about how the 2012 Porsche 911 is or isn’t like the Ur-911s of yore, but after the gin has run dry and the first rays of sunlight are glinting off the ocean, you’d be no closer to understanding what the 991 really is.
Instead, it’s far more informative to approach the 2012 911 as its own entity. Why? Because, simply put, it’s a brilliant car, not in just one aspect, but several  … Pictures and more
Kyle Busch has lost a primary sponsor for the remaining two races of the 2011 Sprint Cup season.
M&M’s was to be on the hood of Kyle Busch’s No. 18 for the final two Cup races of 2011 at Phoenix and Homestead-Miami. But as a result of Busch’s actions in last Friday’s Truck Series race at Texas, the company has opted to pull sponsorship until 2012   … More
Just plain silly. But we wouldn’t want it any other way. Putting a 392 Hemi underhood and Brembos at all four corners. That’s all part of the package in the 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8. But wait, there’s more.
We managed to truck it over to our test track partners at Palm Beach International Raceway for an afternoon seeing to on the quarter mile. Is this a case of window dressing from Chrysler Group’s SRT division, or does the reborn Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 really deliver the goods?   … More