Those We Lost in 2024

Those We Lost 2024 Fred Mackerodt, an automotive writer, photographer, editor and publicist. After stints at Look, Hi-Performance CARS and as a contributor to Supercycle and others, Mackerodt founded his own New York-based public relations agency, handling media...

Those We Lost in 2023

Those We Lost 2023 Ken Block, a 23-time winner in the U.S. domestic rallying and a six-time victor in Global Rallycross, and perhaps best known for his Gymkhana series of web videos highlighting his exceptional car control.  Block, 55, died in a snowmobile accident in...

Those We Lost in 2022

Today we honor those who greatly influenced the automotive industry that we lost in 2022. Kevin Kalkhoven, winning car owner for the 2013 Indianapolis 500 and a key figure in the CART/Champ Car series in the early 2000s. A venture capitalist of considerable wealth,...

A Checkered Past

We watched Al Unser, Jr., in his Indy 500 debut.  We watched him win his first, and his second Indy 500s.  We watched him give a thumbs up to Emerson Fittipaldi when they crashed while battling for Indianapolis victory.  We heard him as he said, “You just don’t know...

We’ll Take Manhattan

The 2022 New York International Auto Show The New York International Auto Show dates back to 1900, when it first took place at the original Madison Square Garden, and in a city that is notoriously not car-friendly the annual exhibition of automobiles continues to...