The first production Dodge Viper was sold at Bonhams’ Scottsdale auction this past week. VIN 00001 brought in almost…
Matt Brown
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Matt Brown is an automotive engineer, writer, and builder of unconventional things. Mostly vehicles.
Byton had an unveiling at CES this year that went over, among other things, the partnered content it is going to…
Garbage trucks are amazing. They work in continuous stop and go driving in every possible environment, from…
The number of races in a Formula 1 season has been slowly creeping up since the first season which had seven races…
One of the most popular car and motorcycle spots in Southern California has been closed for over a year, and if…
California requires all companies that test self-driving cars on public roads in the state to report miles driven…
Six years after being acquitted of violations of SEC regulations in a trial that helped to ensure the demise of the Tucker Corporation, Preston Tucker returned with a new car. The Tucker Carioca was to be a fun to drive mass-market car sold in kit form. Unfortunately, the car never made it off the drawing board, and…
SpaceX has delayed today’s planned in-flight abort test due to bad weather and rough seas in the recovery area. The…
I used to own a Honda RC51 that made the most wonderful noise. It sounded like Godzilla stepped on a Lego. I loved…
The 1983 Ceres was a sleek fiberglass three-wheeler with an advertised drag coefficient of 0.18. Powered by a 3-cylinder 993cc engine, it could reach over 90 mph. Marketed as “In touch with tomorrow,” it perhaps wasn’t since it didn’t see very much tomorrow.
Thirty-odd years ago, some design hack drew a bunch of brown swooshes on the side of an RV in a move that would…
I’m not a big fan of “patina”. The word I mean, not the faded and corroded look of an old car. It’s somewhere…
Like most of the writers and many of the readers here, I look for interesting car related things everywhere I go.…
KTM’s first Dakar win was in 2001 and the manufacturer has come in first place every time since. At the halfway…
Karma unveiled their SC2 at the Los Angeles auto show a couple of months ago and I forgot it existed immediately…
I bought my first new car in 2008 after several years of proud shitbox ownership. I was coming from a $500 Honda CRX…
As you drive your internal combustion car, the engine is drinking gas, gobbling up air, and farting out a continuous…
In 1994, Dodge tantalized car enthusiasts with a modern muscle car. The Venom was a V6 powered rear-wheel-drive two-seater built on the Neon platform, somehow. It had 245 horsepower and, we were told, would cost $13,000 fully loaded. It never made it to production, obviously, and joins a long list of great show cars…
Two General Motors employees were taken to jail earlier this week after the Kentucky State Police busted them for…
One person was hospitalized with minor injuries after a Ferrari F430 driver lost control and crashed into the…