MAHWAH, New Jersey – Six years ago, everyone in the New Jersey car show hobby thought Dead Man’s Curve had lost their collective minds. Here was an organization, albeit with a history of successful car shows, that thought to challenge the long-standing,...
On August 24, 1958, Maria Teresa de Filippis, who had broken one of motorsport’s biggest barriers by becoming the first woman to ever compete in Formula One, raced her third event of the year in a Maserati at the Portuguese Grand Prix at Oporto. Though she drove the...
This past week, I went to Disney for the first time. I was down in Orlando for a conference and we turned the trip into our vacation– someplace I’ve never been before. I’ll admit, for someone with a bit of a Disney Universe bias, I had an incredible experience. (And...
Green tech is a buzz word in the automotive industry right now– but as of this week, Volvo decided to take it further than that. Much further. According to a 2012 article on HybridCars.com, the Toyota Prius sold 223, 905 models in the United States. That same...
It’s a campaign begun years ago, as automatic transmissions began to become standard equipment on new cars, replacing, um, standard transmissions. “Save the Manuals” is the rallying cry. But I don’t buy into it. My first car was a stick, and as I write, my latest...
This might sound a little sacrilegious, but bear with me. Sometimes, long-running car shows are boring. Yeah, I said it. I have a handful of car shows I’ve been attending for literal decades, and I can name what kind of car is going to be in which spot before I even...
