Filed under: Trucks/Pickups, Safety, Chevrolet, Dodge, Nissan, Carsumer Advocacy Click above for high-res gallery of the IIHS side impact crash tests for full-size trucks Still think big, muscular trucks equal safety? In the case of the new Dodge Ram, Nissan Titan and Chevy Silverado, not necessaril...

Filed under: Coupes, Sports/GTs, Marketing/Advertising, Hyundai, Celebrities How did you like Hyundai's Genesis Coupe ads during the Super Bowl? They rocked, right? With that hard-driving soundtrack from The Smashing Pumpkins, of course they rocked. The song is called "FOL," and it isn't available f...

Filed under: Gadgets, CES, Etc., Bentley, Cadillac, Ford, Lamborghini, Toyota Click above to view a high-res gallery of the cars of CES 2009 While CES is and should be known for its unabashed display of geekery, it has also become a venue to display some top-notch custom automobiles. Take for instan...

Filed under: Etc., Government/Legal, Cadillac, Ford Click above for image gallery of how cars survive a nuclear blast Before you answer that question, take a good luck at the photo above. That Cadillac and its perfectly-coiffed driver have lived through nuclear hell. The paint looks to be in good sh...

Filed under: Car Buying, Chrysler, LLC., Ford, GM Chet Czaplicka doesn't own one of the Big 3's suppliers or run a car dealership. Instead, he is the chief executive of a blood-processing firm in the Detroit suburb of Livonia, Michigan. But like most people in that part of the country, he has severa...

Filed under: Etc., Saturn Actually, to be more precise, www.saturnfans.com wants more than just the preservation of the Saturn brand. The Web site hopes to garner enough signatures to convince Wagoner & Company to keep Saturn in the General Motors stable. It seems a bit odd to be asking GM to ke...

Filed under: Convertibles, Sports/GTs, Supercars Click above for a high-res gallery of the Bailey Blade For all of you who have kept up with Neal Bailey's quest to build his dream car, the man with the big plans has hit a snag. The very same snag that's hit the world's established automakers, along ...

Filed under: Sedans/Saloons, Etc., BMW You would think a car company with BMW's brand recognition could roll out its redesigned flagship 7 Series covered in burlap at a mid-December reveal in Siberia with no concerns over public perception, but BMW apparently feels the up-and-coming Russian market n...

Filed under: Convertibles, Etc., Videos, Supercars Building the Bailey Blade! Just the other day I said to myself, "I should write Neal Bailey at Bailey Speed and see how he's coming on the Blade." Last time we heard from him was back in March, which is like 20 blog years. But before I could fire of...

Filed under: Sports/GTs, Porsche Over on the Jalopy Journal's HAMB (that's Hokey-Ass Message Board, BTW) you can usually find tales of barn finds, re-purchased first cars and from-the-verge-of-death restoration projects. But every now and then there's a heartbreaking account of a car just too far go...