Woodward 2009: Motorcycles, scooters and trikes – Click above for high-res image gallery
Motorcycles, scooters and trikes make the annual pilgrimage to Woodward Avenue each year for the Dream Cruise right along with all the classic cars and trucks that we’ve come to expect. This being the case, we dutifully pointed our lenses in the direction [...]
Worst of Woodward 2009 – Click above for high-res image gallery
The Woodward Dream Cruise attracts hundreds of thousands of people and some of the best and most creative metal ever crafted. Some vehicles are finished works of art, while others are, well, works in progress. There’s also a third kind of vehicle… those rolling tributes [...]
2009 Concours d’LeMons – Click above for a high-res image gallery
We never tire of cars. But we do tire of trailer queens. So before sampling some drop-top British hotness here in Monterey, we headed down to the first annual Concours d’LeMons, for some daily-driven obscurities and eye-sores.
Broken up into categories covering everything from “Rust Belt [...]
1906 Pungs Finch Limited – click above for a high res image gallery
Clearly, if a car embodies human traits, its headlamps are the eyes. Over the past century every aspect of automotive design has changed and evolved, but in an odd way, lighting has come full circle. Before standarization took hold, every model had uniquely [...]
Ferrari at Concours d’Elegance – Click above for high-res image gallery
Summers in Michigan are little more than a series of car shows, with events ranging from the Woodward Dream Cruise to the Meadow Brook Concours d’Elegance. While we love Woodward’s tribute to American Muscle, only the Concours could deliver on genuine luxury exotics. And what [...]
1924 Hispano-Suiza H6B Coupe deVille hood ornament – Click above for high-res image gallery
Once upon a time, one of the distinguishing features of all virtually automobiles – especially premium models – were their various forms of hood ornamentation. Those high-end models often had custom coachbuilt bodies, meaning that they rarely looked alike. The ornamentation not [...]
2009 Art Center Car Classic – Click above for high-res image gallery
The Art Center College of Design has had a profound influence over car design for nearly eighty years. Located in Pasadena, CA, the Art Center has an alumni list that is the who’s who of the automotive design world: Chris Bangle, Henrik Fisker, Chip [...]
2009 Rodeo Drive Concours d’Elegance – Click above for a high-res image gallery
Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills is most known for its luxury boutiques like Giorgio Armani and Louis Vuitton, but during Father’s Day it’s all about the cars. For the past several years, the city of Beverly Hills has blocked traffic along the famous [...]
2009 Rodeo Drive Concours d’Elegance – Click above for a high-res image gallery
Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills is most known for its luxury boutiques like Giorgio Armani and Louis Vuitton, but during Father’s Day it’s all about the cars. For the past several years, the city of Beverly Hills has blocked traffic along the famous [...]
A gent in Britain with a load of can-do spirit and a personal fortune has decided that the British Motor Show must go on next year. Scuttled this year after a long decline, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders has an eye toward resurrecting the show in 2013, even though some believe it might [...]
With all the news surrounding the death of Anna Nicole Smith, the car junkies over at Jalopnik were smart enough to write a headline that no doubt go many search engines to look their way, although it took a couple degrees of separation to find the link. Apparently the lawyer for Anna Nicole’s mom has [...]
Got eight tons of stuff to haul Sterling Truck Corporation is taking a shot at it with its new Bullet-class 4/5 truck. The new mid-range worker looks to be based off the Dodge Ram chassis cab that recently debuted. Sterling is part of Freightliner, which is part of DCX, and if you look through the [...]
Oh that Camry, such a charmer. It’s so not sitting home on Valentine’s Day without a date. This time it’s the Canadians giving up some automotive love, handing the Camry another trophy for its burgeoning display case – the Canadian Car of the Year award from the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada. Going home with [...]
For the 1968 Brussels Motor Show, legendary design house Bertone took the wraps off of the Lamborghini Miura Roadster. The Miura, one of the earliest exotic supercars, was first unveiled at Turin in 1965 with a body designed by Nuccio Bertone, so who better than him to chop off the roof Like other Lambo roadsters [...]
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By all accounts, we believe we can safely refer to the hue of the Commodore SS shown above as “purple.” The VE Commodore SS is a pretty mean piece of machinery though, and for some, purple could be a tough sell. And really, the endgame is to get the shopper to [...]
