We’ve already established that electric motorcycles don’t have to be stodgy appliances, but the problem – as always – is charging and range. So what if you nixed the amount of time it takes to juice up with a ubiquitous Read more
Filed under: Motorsports, Videos What do you do when the Nordschleife is covered in snow? Why, you put snow tires on a formula racing car and paint the Green Hell white! Continue reading Nürburgring in the snow is a formula Read more
Filed under: Chevrolet, Car Buying The cars we’re most looking forward to driving in 2015; a sneak peek of the 2016 Chevy Volt; our monthly By The Numbers sales recap for December 2014. Here’s everything you might have missed in Read more
Now that the 2014 holiday season is in our rearview mirror, the Arizona auctions loom dead ahead. As a counter to the seven-figure cars about to cross the block, we offer up this week’s installment of the $5,000 Challenge, heavy-on-the-’70s Read more
As Jalopnik pointed out a few years back, SCCA racer John Coyle was the Coyle behind Coyle-Hampton Motors in El Cerrito, California, the used sports car dealership depicted in this postcard photo that Alden Jewell posted to his Flickrstream. But Read more
When Lucky Nehez says “I like buying other people’s projects,” what he really means is, he likes finding hot rod builds that got stalled along the way and finishing the job.
Sure, it’s good to keep cars original so we can examine them nowadays and see how the factory built them, see how those factory configurations held up over time, but if we really want to do some auto anthropology and Read more
The Graham Hill-driven Lotus 56-3. Photos courtesy Barrett-Jackson. In 1967, a turbine engine Indy Car driven by Parnelli Jones and entered by Granatelli Racing would have won the Indy 500 had it not been for the failure of an inexpensive Read more
Crystal ball image by Judy van der Velden. In January of 2014, I fired up the incense burner, cast some chicken bones, read a few tea leaves and gazed into a crystal ball to come up with a series of Read more
Photos courtesy of Bill Close. Anyone remember The Prisoner? Patrick McGoohan’s short-lived television tour de force entertained and confused viewers across the globe late in the 1960s, initially airing Stateside on CBS. As Number Six, a man who knew too Read more