The quantity of race cars at the first-ever Salt Lake City 24 Hours of LeMons wasn’t so high, but the quality was just stratospheric. We knew we’d be in for a good race session on Saturday, and that’s precisely what we got. Here’s how things stood at the end of the first day of racing at the Return of the LeMonites 24 Hours of LeMons. Leading Class A and the entire field, we’ve got the Volvo 740 Turbo of Team Too Stupid To Know Better. This team...
We’re here in lovely Tooele, Utah, for the first-ever Return of the LeMonites 24 Hours of LeMons, held at Miller Motorsports Park. The air is thin, the weather is warm, and we’ve got just 67 intrepid teams willing to brave the long hauls from places like San Francisco, Denver, and Phoenix. The good news is that the proportion of spectacular cars is much higher than at your typical race, and now we’re going to share some of them with you. The BRIBED...
The annual Villa D'Este concours on the shores of Lake Como brings together some of the world's rarest and most perfectly preserved luxury carsVilla D’Este is a concours d’elegance where everything from the grass on which the motor cars rest, the lake and hills that they overlook and the hotel overlooking them seem film-set perfect, with weather to match.When you arrive, it’s difficult to know what to look at first. Especially as there are cars...
With General Motors resting up for its (inevitable) next recall, Ford picked up the slack in recall-related news this week by flagging down more than 1.3 million sedans and SUVs for power steering failures, electrical fires and trapped accelerators. According to Ford, power steering can cut out on the 2011-2013 Ford Explorer and 2008-2011 Escape and Mercury Mariner. Explorer models have electric motor position sensors that can intermittently shut...
So here’s a bit of product placement you didn’t see coming. Mercedes-Benz has inked a deal with Nintendo to place its new GLA-class crossover in the latest iteration of Mario Kart. Intersections between real life and Mario Kart are nothing new, of course. A couple of years back, West Coast Customs built life-size versions of game vehicles and displayed them at the L.A. auto show. Earlier this year, Jaxx Pacific announced a drivable, powered kart...
