As I awkwardly jogged around the darkened basement of The Petersen Automotive Museum, arms outstretched, gripping a very homemade LED strip apparatus, battery pack slung across my chest, doing laps around priceless metal in 25-second shutter intervals, while a handful of technicians and museum personnel looked on, I…

Watching the Bathurst 12 Hour last weekend was fantastic and wonderfully approachable for any racing fan. There was stunning scenery, excellent racing, Mount Panorama, not a single Daytona Prototype in sight — I could go on! The cars were top notch, too. You had SLS AMGs battling it out with McLarens, Ferrari 458s,…

Instagram is a fun, especially if you love cars. It became widespread initially from the social aspect of sharing photos with friends, but I think it's maintained momentum because, along the way, it's become a legitimately creative medium. A few months back, Chris Perkins wrote a post about automotive Instagram…

Everyone's auto show photos look the same. Crowds, ropes, reflections, and a variety of unfavorable lighting conditions all make sure that there's no hiding the fact that these are cars in a convention center. Going to an auto show is a blast for the car-obsessed, but looking at pictures in an auto show is usually…

I've got nothing against the fabled Gulf Racing livery, but on a McLaren P1 it seems kinda dull, and in this case, not particularly well-executed (Gulf blue is pale, powder blue, not this cartoonish Cerulean hue). I feel like perhaps this car was spec'd by someone who knows nothing about McLaren, and just enough about…

I was wondering the paddock with my green media badge, aka The God Pass, and I saw Valtteri Bottas. As I got closer to him, Sir Jackie Stewart also approached him and warmly congratulated him on his 3rd place qualifying position, which happened moments earlier. I wish I knew what he told him, but I also don't. That…

As penniless teenager, I used to sometimes find myself (paradoxically) in the spotless showroom of Ferrari of Houston, just to stare. All of my heroes from the magazines I studied — here they were. It was a serene place: you step softly around the showroom, more like a museum than a car dealership. If I had dragged…

Every time I get together with a handful of distant friends and talk about 90s BMWs, I have the same compulsion. It isn't I need an old BMW, it's weirder: I need to scan the amazing BMW brochures from my fanboy youth.

Remember the dream of the Grand Am B-Spec series? The best and brightest econoboxes, stripped and caged and ready to rock? Well, that died. The series was shut down after its debut in 2012, but the prepped race cars found their way to enthusiasts, where there’s actually been grassroots efforts to get them racing once…

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The Tan Camry is a tongue-in-cheek Tumblr devoted to tan-colored Camrys (commonly known as beige in these parts) — it offers a hilarious, absurd perspective on the most derided car in the Jalopoverse. The description calls it "The world's foremost blog on Camry lifestyle and culture" and that's a claim I'm sure no one…

This is the Cobra that Sebastian rode in during the drivers parade at the USGP today.

After the ALMS race at Circuit of the Americas last weekend, I spent some time geeking out over the runner-up finishing Dyson Racing LMP1 with my camera and an off-camera flash. I only had about 5 minutes with it, in its race-worn, rubber-spattered glory, before the team started removing body panels and disassembling…

It was November 2006: I was post-college unemployed and had just moved to Long Island City. When I wasn't job-searching, I was pretty deep into reading random Wikipedia entries and watching Arrested Development reruns.

If you're of the opinon that it would be impossible for BMW to build a modern-day E30, and foolish to wish for it, please, stop reading now. Yes. This is another one of those posts.

I remember seeing this on TV just once, but I was amazed. So much excess. So much Premier Auto Group (PAG)! Also, most everyday cars in 1999, 2000 were pretty dreadful in retrospect.

A quick guess, based on the previous car's roof.

A lot of people are counting on this car to be the ‘best-ever’ GT3, which makes no sense to me. The GT3 is the stripped, purest version of the 911, so why would I want it to start from the most complicated and arguably compromised 911 platform?

I realize I'm stating the obvious here.