Classic

As Volkswagen Group shifts its focus to high-volume electric cars and self-driving technology, the costly bill to electrify its niche performance brands like Lamborghini and Bugatti is becoming harder to justify.

With apologies to the writers of the jingle in the old TV commercial, but when you think about tires for classic cars, the name that’s known isn’t Firestone, but Coker.

John Bucci couldn’t afford to buy a sports car, so the self-taught artist, designer and engineer decided to build one. In fact, he built two, one of them featured at the 1964 New York World’s Fair. 

Ford Mustangs are the most-popular collector cars, bar none, spurred on by nostalgic memories of Mustangs past and because, for a fairly reasonable price in most cases, one can look great driving a classic pony car that nearly everyone admires.

Auto companies are starting to think of themselves as mobility service providers meeting the need for more than the traditional petroleum-powered cars and trucks. And electric-powered cars and trucks are only one example. 

A few years ago, billboards along the freeways I drove daily carried advertisements promising “4 tires for $99.”

Long before he took us to a galaxy far, far away, George Lucas was growing up in Modesto, the modestly named (Modesto is Spanish for modest) community in California’s Central Valley farmland. Lucas graduated from Thomas Downey High School in 1962 and helped crew for local sports car racer and […]

Discovery UK presents a 5-minute video on how tires for cars and trucks are produced. 

Chances are you wouldn’t venture out in the snow wearing only flip-flops. Likewise, you probably don’t wear your Uggs to the beach. Nor do you attempt to run a half-marathon in 4-inch heels.

In the world of automobile and motorcycle restoration there are two different directions you can take when choosing a shop. You can go to one of the many quality shops that restore many different kinds of vehicles. Such shops are not specialists in a single type of vehicle, but nonetheless […]