The 23rd running of the American muscle-car-only event, now sponsored by Dark Horse Customs, takes place on Sunday, May 29, at Lebanon Valley Dragway in West Lebanon, New York. Summer is so close we can just about smell it, and in the Hemmings offices that’s a sure sign that Musclepalooza is back. Last fall’s Best […]
We are picking our way through the old hot iron as it grumbles in the staging lanes, and our eyes are drawn to the flash of a gold-and-purple satin jacket on a venerable hot rodder sitting behind the wheel of Al Clarke’s A/V-8 roadster pickup. For the first time in 55 years, Oiler Quint Meland […]
Scheduled to begin on June 24, 2017, and with an announced purse of $150,000 – $50,000 of which goes to the overall winner once again – the Great Race will start in Jacksonville, Florida, and then head in a general northwesterly direction through Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and Michigan, where it will finish in Traverse […]
Above, a look at Grote Markt – now car-less – and Sint Geertruidus Kerk in Bergen Op Zoom, and below, a look at Ridderzaal– also now car-less – in The Hague. While the European street scenes of the last few days offered a good deal of variety, these two probably have the widest selection of […]
Photo courtesy The Henry Ford. Plenty of people, startled by annual highway death figures in the tens of thousands and growing, concerned themselves with the topic both before and after World War II, but the vast majority of that concern focused on pretty much everything but the automobile itself. Automotive safety didn’t start with Ralph […]
“An improperly tightened rear tie rod to hub-carrier assembly attaching bolt may allow the tie rod to separate from the hub carrier, resulting in a loss of control, increasing the risk of a crash,” NHTSA said in its recall summary. WASHINGTON — Maserati North America is recalling 26,464 2014-’16 Maserati Quattroporte and Maserati Ghibli sedans […]
The model will be available from September and be the first of a new category of vehicles for the automaker that’s fully integrated to the internet, according to Gu Feng, SAIC’s financial controller. Among its functions, the Roewe RX5 SUV will be able to suggest alternative routes with road closures or traffic congestion, provide directions […]
Yellen, speaking at Harvard University, stopped short of giving an explicit hint that the Fed would act next month. Oil slipped after touching $50 a barrel this week for the first time in six months. The dollar strengthened versus almost all major peers on Friday, while Britain’s pound gained for a second week on increasing […]
Lazard Ltd., Takata’s financial adviser, will meet manufacturers as well as financial firms with the aim to find buyers by the fall, said the person, who asked not to be named because the discussions are private. Takata’s plan is to remain listed and maintain its core seat-belt, air-bag and steering-wheel businesses, while selling off non-core operations, […]
Many efficiency-focused gasoline cars and some hybrids have achieved stellar window-sticker fuel-economy ratings, only to fall short in the real world. Diesel cars may keep a lower profile than hybrids or battery-electrics, but they’re a good option for drivers looking to reliably save fuel. Diesels generally don’t have that problem. In fact, they’ve been known […]
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