Thanks for the casual misandry about men not knowing about menstruation, like we “dudes” don’t have mothers, or sisters, or daughters or wives or girlfriends who menstruate (or that the lutienizing and follicle stimulating hormones that control menstruation weren’t discovered by men). Some of those females even leave…

Video I shot of the Mustang in Ford’s wind tunnel. Click on the settings icon in the YouTube menubar to select 2D or 3D format.

I’ll nominate the Lotus Elan. Not because its pop-up headlights look funny, though they do give the car a frogeyed look. It’s because Colin Chapman & company never got them to work properly. The early models used engine manifold vacuum to pop them up. Unfortunately for high-speed nighttime driving, the Lotus Twin-Cam…

While I did not get to drive the Elio at speed or on public roadways

The company was killed by other American automakers who didn’t want competition

I guess that means that blues music must be European since the guitar comes from Spain and the harmonica is from Germany.

But it’s not just weird as an artifact of an earlier electric era, it even looks weird, in a charming way, with a downward-sloping face and enormously tall windows:

The people who do this to a 12C will eventually have the same regret as owners of 1963 Corvette coupes have who replaced the split rear window with the one piece backlight of the ‘64 models. With something as rare as a McLaren, I’d go the “it’s only original once” route.

That Ford Quadricycle is a replica. The original is in the Henry Ford Museum, which also has Henry Ford’s original “kitchen sink” engine.

This is the big government you guys vote for, government run for the benefit of public employees and politicians, not the public. It becomes an end unto itself and its ravenous appetite must be fed.

Master Hands, produced in 1936 by the Jam Handy Organization for General Motors and Chevrolet is terrific.

Henry Ford yielding control of Ford Motor Company had nothing to do with his antisemitism. After Edsel Ford, who had been running the company for years, died of stomach cancer in 1943, Henry reasserted operational control of Ford Motor Company. It was the middle of World War II and FoMoCo was a major military…

The Gulf liveried Ford GT40 that won at LeMans in 1968 and 1969 is no longer on display at the Henry Ford Museum. It was on loan while the museum's 1967 Ford Mk IV that won at LeMans with Gurney and Foyt was being repaired after it got damaged in shipment going to the Goodwood events. Now that the "Gurney bubble" car…

That particular Chrysler Turbine Car is not in St Louis. It's owned by the Detroit Historical Museum and it's on more or less permanent display at the Gilmore Car Museum, in Hickory Corners, just north of Kalamazoo, Michigan. There's also a Chrysler Turbine Car on display at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn. Both of…

Matt, so nice of you to honor Alice Boler-Davis by showing a picture of Michelle Obama at center stage, with Davis on the periphery, basking in the First Lady's radiated glory. Because, after all, the most important thing that Ms. Boler-Davis has accomplished was applauding the First Lady, right? A quick image search…

Protean, which makes hub motors, had Lotus Engineering do some comparative studies, specifically looking at unsprung weight, and they concluded that so many different factors go into vehicle dynamics that adding unsprung weight is not necessarily a deal breaker. Tires and suspension tuning affect ride and handling…

As it's been explained to me, trackside photo access, at least for the IndyCar sessions, is restricted to those outlets that regularly cover the series. If you want to get trackside access you at least have to show up for the photographers meeting to go over the safety rules. I've been credentialed since they started…

Customer cars don't allow for the kind of innovation and technological strategy that people expect out of Formula One, so the smaller teams have every reason to be up in arms about that clause, even if it is one that was meant to help them.

Ray Rice attacked his then-fiancee in an elevator.