For Want of a Nail, the Jeep was Lost

A shortage of steering wheels threw a wrench into production of the Jeep Cherokee and the Grand Cherokee this week, with production shifts being canceled or shortened at Fiat Chrysler’s Toledo North Assembly Plant in Ohio and the Jefferson North Assembly Plant...

The Little Microcars That Could (Almost)

I confessed in an article recently that, despite my aversion to ‘cutesy cars’, I am madly in lust with the Fiat 500, both classic and moderns iterations. The Fiat 500, along with the Mini Cooper, and to an extent, the Volkswagen Beetle, are symbols of classic...

Aussie Grit (Your Teeth to Read This Book)

Mark Webber is many things. He’s a success story, an incredible inspiration, a race car driver who defied the odds over and over, a small boy from rural Australia who rose the ranks, a friend, a teammate, and more. He’s all these things, but he’s not a writer. The...

Englishtown Report

Are Car Guys Switching to Bicycles? by Bob Marlow On April 15, instead of mailing a check to the IRS, we visited the Spring Swap Meet at Raceway Park in Englishtown, New Jersey, for the first time in many years.  This year’s event was the 34th annual edition (a...

Opening Night in America

As the weather turns warmer, race tracks across the country awaken from a wintertime nap to launch a new season of competition, and what played out this past Saturday at Wall Stadium in New Jersey is just one example. At Wall Stadium, which held its first opening...

New York in a Nutshell

Anyone who has attended an international auto show knows first hand what it’s like to suddenly find yourself in a chorus number for Cirque du Soleil. Everywhere you look there’s flashes of chrome, both fake and real, the sound of engines and – on...