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The Slow, Painful Death of The Minivan
Chrysler, the company that likes to take credit for the invention of the minivan, is these days watching its invention whither on the vine – through May of 2015, sales of Chrysler’s top-of-the-line minivan, the Town & Country, are down more than 45 percent from the prior year.
read moreFor the Mom and Pop Racetracks, the Checkered Flag Looms Too Close for Comfort
Fifty years after the heyday of drag racing, everyone from local tracks to national circuits feels the pressure of changing times, an aging fanbase, and competition for entertainment dollars.
read moreThe New Dodge Viper Brings Track to the Roads
This 2016 ACR, at 645 horsepower, has more than 195 horsepower than its original 1999 inspiration. Throughout the generations, weight was shed, torque was added, and power distributed, to help produce this fastest street-legal Viper track car in all of history.
read moreThe Man Behind America’s Best Silver Ghost
For Veasey Cullen, working on the Rolls Royces, whether it’s the 1924 Silver Ghost in a Buffalo, NY winter, or the rare L&E Tourer for a high-class concours, is half the fun. “[Rolls Royce] just went ahead and did everything as perfectly as they could,” he says. “And so I’ve enjoyed that. I’ve enjoyed the machining and making things and trying to do it their way.”
read morePresident Obama honors Kevin Harvick and Steve Byrnes
While Steve Byrnes was battling cancer, there was a remarkable outpouring of support from the racing communityWhile Steve Byrnes was battling cancer, there was a remarkable outpouring of support from the racing community. During an event to honor 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Kevin Harvick, President Obama took a moment to offer his condolences.
read moreAmelia Island Concours in Review
I’m doomed to remain an automotive dilettante rather than an expert. If this were college, I’d be the perpetual undergraduate, always trying out a new course, unable to just settle on and complete a major. If you can relate, let me tell you: the Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance is the event for you.
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Celebrating 50 Years of the Ford Mustang
The Fairlane Committee began working on a car for America’s youth. It would be sporty, aesthetically pleasing, affordable, and unique. It would challenge the two-seater racing European models that World War II vets had fallen in love with overseas. It would go on to celebrate its fiftieth birthday in April of 2014, as the longest consistently produced American car in history. It was the Ford Mustang.
read moreNo NHTSA Recall for Stalling Chrysler Minivans
This week the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration concluded an investigation into stalling problems in older Chrysler and Dodge minivans, and despite confirming the existence of the condition, NHTSA did not order a recall. The reason? That the defect would not likely lead to crashes.
read moreThe T-Bird That Almost Made it to the Moon
On May 25, 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced before a special joint session of Congress the dramatic and ambitious goal of sending an American to the Moon. The President turned to several leading American corporations for help, including the Ford Motor Company. So along with top scientists at NASA, Ford began top secret work on a modified vehicle that could be brought to, and driven on, the moon.
read moreThe End of Clarkson’s Top Gear
Top Gear will still be good. It’ll still be fantastic, with its quirk and humor, and the novel length magazines, and all that makes it what it is. But it won’t be the Top Gear that we know, simply because it can’t be.
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Editorial
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In the U.S., summer is prime car show season, giving rise to a sense of anticipation and enthusiasm of the local and large-scale events that are held during this period. Car enthusiasts in other countries undoubtedly experience the same feelings, but none more so than in what intuitively may be an unlikely location: Sweden. The land and people that gave us the niche brand Saab along with Volvo, producer of the original yuppie status symbol, are avid show attendees.
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Crown Classics & Exotics - Ventura, CA
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Murphy Auto Museum, Oxnard. CA
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This is a list of the Car Shows you will want to experience before you die.
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Moment of Decision: John's 1963 Corvette Resto-Mod: Choosing whether to Restore or Resto-Mod an older Corvette isn’t always easy.
Motorama
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This third installment begins an exploration of Ford Motor Company’s involvement in also building airplanes during WWII by focusing on the story of its facility in Willow Run, MI.
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Henry Ford was able to indulge a long-standing interest in mass-producing airplanes when in 1941 the Ford Motor Company garnered a contract to produce complete B-24 bombers at a specially-built plant in Willow Run, MI.
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It may not be well-known but there is more history of automobile manufacturers who have also produced aircraft, of which Honda is only the most recent example.
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This St. Patrick’s Day, celebrate both Irish pride and the arrival of Spring by taking a drive in your 1959 Shamrock.
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On March 17, 1834, Gottlieb Daimler was born in Germany. Had he been born 100 years later, he would have seen an automotive industry the likes of which early automakers could hardly dare dream, and yet, had he been born 100 years later, that very auto industry might never have come to pass.
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