The race series that employs me, the 24 Hours of LeMons, is now in its busiest part of the year, and that means I don’t always have time to drive something suitable for a Race Organizer Review to every event. A couple of weeks ago, I opted for a rental Chrysler 200 at the Pacific Northworst race, but before that I…

We think of Chevrolets as purely American (and sometimes Canadian) cars, but just like the countless countries where the Corvette was never on the menu, there have been dozens and dozens of Chevrolets that America never received in any shape or form. Ever heard of the Chevrolet Kommando? It hasn’t heard of you either,…

You’ve no doubt been subjected to piles of weird think pieces on “Gen Y” and “millennials” and how they aren’t into cars anymore, because cell phones. You’ve trudged through quotes from 45-year-old consultants who get paid to tell 60-year-old executives how to sell things to 20-year-olds — then you look around and…

Once, the hardest part to get right was lining up the driver-side wheel with the conveyor track. Nowadays, the difficulties of getting a car cleaned at the local automatic car wash are increasing, varied and of a far more complex—and sometimes perplexing—nature.

Yes, that's a 12-cylinder, 600-horsepower Ferrari race car, wrapped in the same duct tape holding up the exhaust of your cousin's Kia Sephia. It was the 24 Hours of Daytona, 1971, the debut of Roger Penske's dream team with David Hobbs and Mark Donohue where the troubles would begin—one of the most famous Ferrari race…

Randy Lanier was the former Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year—whose promising auto racing career scandalously careened into oblivion, when he was sentenced to life without parole for his role as an international drug trafficking mastermind. And next week, Autoweek has learned, he will shuffle out of prison a free…

The Ferrari 250 GTO needs little introduction to most readers. Whole books have been written about the GTO's racing exploits and it now regularly commands eight-figure sale prices. Nonetheless, there's still a lot of confusion about exactly how many GTOs were built. Let's set the record straight.

If there's one tried and true way to raise the creepiness quotient of your online car ad, it's making a woman stand next to the car while you shoot the photos that will soon grace the pages of eBay Motors or Craigslist. But what if you can't convince a woman to come near you, let a lone lay spread-eagle on the hood of…

The Indianapolis 500 is huge. Enormous. Epic. We'd call its physical size and larger-than-life pageantry Roman in scale, but the Circus Maximus—the Empire's premier, 150,000-seat venue for that era's take on open-wheel racing—is positively dwarfed by the Indianapolis Motor Speedway's sprawling grounds.

For the first time, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway offered "glamorous camping" or "glamping," on the track's infield during the Indy 500. Across a small lake from the Brickyard Crossing Golf Course's eight hole, IMS settled "Glamptown," a village of 70 10-foot x 15-foot canvas tents. The tents were available with the…

At New York we didn't see a new Mazda Miata—well, not all of it, anyway. But we did see a the 25th Anniversary Edition: a paint and interior send-off to the NC platform with its own requisite headrest logos and numbered plaques. It comes in an exclusive Soul Red with Almond (read: tan) seats. Its engine components are…

To our 6-year-old selves, monster trucks really were the biggest, baddest things on four wheels, mechanized, city-block-sized demon machines that ate sedans and belched fire. The reality is that the trucks aren't that big when you get right up next to them — certainly not the Caterpillar 797-sized car-obliterators we…

Toonces, The Cat Who Could Drive A Car, once starred on the cover of Autoweek. Poor little rat-faced guy just can't catch a break.

With the passage of time, Bridgehampton Race Circuit looks more and more like any one of our innumerable lost raceways—just another 2.85 miles of roadway laid down in America's postwar racing boom before fading into obscurity.

On Feb. 10, 1989, executives from Honda and a newly founded division known as Acura piled into a conference room in Chicago's historic Drake Hotel to rehearse the unveiling of an unbelievable new car—a Technicolor vision for the future, something never before built by Honda or any Japanese automaker.

"If I ever happen to have an accident that eventually costs me my life, I hope it is in one go. I would not like to be in a wheelchair. I would not like to be in a hospital suffering from whatever injury it was. If I'm going to live, I want to live fully, very intensely, because I am an intense person. It would ruin…

He's so laid back he lets his hair grow any which way. He's got a shirt with his favorite car on it. What more could you need? We only wish everyone in life could possess this man's insouciance.

"I started shooting movies when I stopped racing," said original hot rod hero Alex Xydias. "When I had enough stuff I made this."

Nearly every Ford Mustang—from the very first cars through the Fox platform era and right up to today's models—has its partisans. The only exception? The poor, forgotten Mustang II.