Today, in 2009, Fast & Furious, the fourth film in the successful action franchise, debuted in America, before going on to take the record of the highest grossing opening weekend for any car movie in history. It raked in $72.5 million, besting the 2006 release of...
It happened. I was going about, living my life, minding my own business, when – completely out of the blue – I wanted a Porsche. Me? A Porsche. The skies are falling. But, you say, Porsches are amazing. They have a long and remarkable history of performance, design,...
As noted in my colleague Ruby’s recent story about Janet Guthrie, Guthrie herself acknowledges that women have a long and significant history in auto racing, dating back well over 100 years. Yet racing was, and to a great extent remains, a man’s world. It was only...
The 59th running of the Daytona 500 gets the green flag this Sunday, but it will be nothing like the 58 races that preceded it. Each of those 58 races was a 500-mile high-speed endurance contest. Green flag, 500 miles, checkered flag. Not so this year. This year,...
The problem is, it should be good. The Atlantic City Car Show, a massive event set before the east coast car season even begins, should be a smash hit. It has been in the past. But the last few years have seen a decline in one of the most anticipated New Jersey car...
Remember the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, popularly referred to as the Evo, the high-performance four-door which competed in the marketplace with the Subaru Impreza WRX? The Evo was discontinued in the 2015 model year. Now the sedan on which it was based, the...
