AAA, LeMans, USAC, and the Tragic Year of 1955

Sixty years ago, when the calendar flipped to begin 1955, the American Automobile Association began its 54th season as the major sanctioning body for auto racing in the United States.  AAA ran racing with an iron hand and drivers with aspirations of competing at the...

Breeding Out the Car Enthusiast

In the new BMW M3 an owner voids the warranty by changing the battery. Not only can one not touch the Porsche Cayenne’s engine, they’re not even allowed to see it. Most modern cars have replaced the antiquated technology of oil dipsticks and physical movement with the...

Will Electric Cars Replace Diesels in France?

As we reported previously, France wants to rid its roads of old diesel cars, and to do so the country has announced that it is adjusting fuel taxes to be less favorable to diesel and offering a remarkable incentive to encourage owners of older diesels to buy electric...

MINI Cooper’s Big Adventure

There is no denying that nature is great and vast and utterly uninterested in the goings-on of the human race. It has the ability to build and rebuild, to create mountain, valley, canyon, to forge new species and to destroy centuries of its own work with wildfires,...

Rico Abreu and the Chili Bowl

We have been to the Chili Bowl previously, and are itching to return, but this year we had to settle for watching a live video stream.  But even via the miniature speakers of an Ipad we could hear the crowd chanting Rico! Rico! Rico! after 2014 USAC champion Rico...

Has Your Jeep Been Recalled?

In June of 2013, 1.56 million 2002-2007 Jeep Liberty and 1993-1998 Jeep Grand Cherokee models were recalled, to mitigate a condition which can cause the vehicles to catch fire after being rear-ended.  But most of the media attention during that time has been focused...