Nationally, violent crime rates today are down considerably from their historic highs in the 80s and early 90s. Social scientists will tell you there are many reasons for this, including harsher penalties and changing demographics. They're wrong. The real reason is high tech crime-fighting cars.

The Ford Mustang that portrayed "Eleanor" in the Gone in 60 Seconds remake (that's the one with Nic Cage) just sold for $1,100,000 at the Mecum Indianapolis auction.

As a fan of comic books and their movie adaptations (well, some more than others) I've kind of wondered what Captain America would drive. The dude missed out on 70 years of cars because he was a frozen Cap-sicle. He'd have a lot to catch up on, right?

The Great Gatsby, a film that depicts all that was beautiful and not so beautiful about the 1920s, debuts this weekend. Part of what made the whole era so grand, however, was not the money that would never stop or the incredible music that seemed to flow from everything, but the cars that the monied class drove.

Another year, another Gumball 3000 rally, where overly-entitled millionaires will dart from one end of a continent to another in their fancy, fancy supercars. This year will be unique because another famous rich dude will be making an appearance: Batman.

Tony Stark is a man of wealth and taste. He likes cars that are obscenely fast and ludicrously expensive, like the Audi R8 and the Saleen S7. But when he dons his Iron Man suit, cars get blown up. Specifically, his cars. And other people's cars. Also military equipment, aliens, and his enemies, but especially cars.

Like many of us, I was saddened to hear about Jonathan Winters' passing today. While there's many very funny things to reminisce about, to a gearhead the pinnacle of Winters' work was in the 60s-era comic crammed road movie, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, where he plays a trucker who demolishes a gas station with…

A couple weeks ago, I was invited to inspect the few cars that survived the filming of the Citizen Kane of driving-fast-to-fight-crime-or-something movies, Fast and Furious 6. In that post I mentioned there was one car I felt merited its own post, and, true to my word, this is it. That car is the genuinely bonkers…

Pulp Fiction turns 20 this year and it’s one movie with some iconic car scenes. The red Malibu, the gray NSX, the radically redecorated Nova. So how about a more obscure one, a poster of gorgeous cars hanging on the wall of Bruce Willis’s character Butch’s apartment? That’s a Gullwing in the middle. But can you name…

It may not be a dark green Mustang, but this is your chance to own a piece of history from the legendary Steve McQueen flick Bullitt. As long as you're prepared to pay a million dollars for it, anyway.