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Last night's WinStar World Casino NASCAR truck race (for real, that's the name) ended early for Kyle Busch after he put championship contender Ron Hornaday in the wall on purpose following a scuffle early in the race. NASCAR parked him for the rest of the race and just announced he's out all weekend. More »
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Texting and driving may earn you a stiff fine, but driving while texting on one phone and talking on a second will earn you one year of riding your bike everywhere. Just ask David Secker of the UK. More »
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Aaron Severson, editor of Ate Up With Motor, explains what happens when a bunch of tech-mad Frenchmen buy an Italian supercar factory and drink too much at lunch. This is the history of the space-age Citroën SM. —Ed. More »
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As soon as NASCAR announced a three-race penalty for Carl Edwards after his angry intentional flip this weekend the boys responded. Robby Gordon tweeted "I wonder what would of happened to me in that situation? Hmmm someone playing favorites? :)" More »
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Good news for 2003 through 2009 Ford Mustang owners that don't want to throw down $21,000 on a complete Roush Stage 3 kit: The suspension alone is now available separately for just $1,449, meaning it's now affordable to make your 'Stang handle. The complete kit is a direct replacement for the spongy stock suspension, lowers the car 1", and includes springs, dampers, jounce bumpers and anti-roll bars. Full details follow the jump. More »
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While we often rant on about crazed measures of infernal combustion or even jet cars around here, multiple hundreds or even thousands of horsepower along with scads of torque won't add up to a side order of beans unless you can actually put it through to the ground. More »
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One of benefits of spending all manner of time and money on older Japanese cars is the often entertaining intersection of Japanese and English. We had seen the jewelry-like quality of Cusco suspension components before, but we had yet to see the packaging for these pillow ball adjustable camber plates. All language mashups aside, the stated goal of Cusco is right there on the box. Our objective is to develop your enjoyment of driving through motorsport! [Cusco Japan via Cusco USA] More »
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The UK's 4Car went behind the curtain at Volkswagen's skunk werks and came back with a summary of the R&D work product percolating. It starts with VW's Combined Combustion System (CCS), a low-emissions engine setup that runs on a new kind of synthetic boutique fuel, currently under development. It'll be $40 a gallon and come in clear glass bottles with French words printed on them, presumably. Another proto engine is the GCI, or gasoline compression ignition, which achieves the fuel economy of a diesel engine at the low emissions profile of a petrol engine. It works by switching between spark-plug ignition (gas) for starting and hard acceleration and glow-plug compression ignition (diesel) when cruising. Perhaps the coolest innovation 4Car highlights is VW's just-for-kicks adjustable suspension that uses software to vary it from Lotus Elise to Buick Lacrosse, without changing the hardware. The future will not be hybridized, apparently. – Mike Spinelli More »
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It's been an obsession of Bose Corp's elderly leader, Amar Bose, since 1980 — conquering potholes. Apparently the head of that audio products company has been a suspension geek since the late 1950s, and has been working on a new system that detects obstacles and pulls a car's wheels up over them, which we reported on last December. According to the Associated Press, a new luxury car yet to be designed, will be fitted with the system, which uses sensors and four electromagnetic motors mounted at the wheel, in essence creating a really active suspension. [Thanks to Tony for the tip.] More »
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