Steve McQueen’s “Bullitt” Mustang Sells For $3.4 Million At Auction
Steve McQueen’s 1968 Mustang GT from the “Bullitt” movie started at $3500 at the Mecum auction in Kissimmee, Florida, and wound up going for a massive $3.4 million…
Steve McQueen’s 1968 Mustang GT from the “Bullitt” movie started at $3500 at the Mecum auction in Kissimmee, Florida, and wound up going for a massive $3.4 million…
Defending Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton has donated $500,000 to support the fire service and animal welfare charities affected by the recent bush fires in Australia that have burned approximately 15.5 million acres and killed an estimated billion animals as well as 27 people. “I’m lucky enough to visit Australia often and I know […]
In the Season One series finale of “James May: Our Man in…Japan” – entitled “Pickled Plum” – James begins his travels on the small island of Shikoku, the smallest of Japan’s main islands, accompanied yet again by trusty translator, Yujiro. James elects to enter Shikoku on a 70-kilometer bicycle ride which takes him over a […]
The fifth episode of “James May: Our Man in…Japan” is entitled “Peach Boy” and begins in Osaka, the third-largest city in Japan and initially begins with a new female translator. Osaka is essentially the Las Vegas of Japan and, as such, is the center of food choices, gaming and cosplay cafes. For food, James’ new […]
In a move surprising nobody, Max Verstappen has re-signed with Red Bull through the 2023 Formula One racing season. The 22-year-old Dutchman was promoted from Red Bull’s junior team – Toro Rosso – in the 2016 F1 season and went on to become the youngest winner in F1 history when he won the Spanish Grand […]
In the fourth episode of “James May: Our Man in…Japan” entitled “Hey Bim!”, James has traveled from Tokyo to Kyoto but not via Shiki-Shima luxury train and instead via a Kawasaki ZZR400 motorbike. James temporarily collects a seven-person biker gang to accompany him from Kyoto to Mount Fuji, but they abandon him as he goes […]
The third episode of “James May: Our Man in…Japan” is entitled “Deodorant” and begins in Tokyo with yet another new guide/translator named Yujiro. First, a brief history lesson as James mentions that the bustling cosmopolitan metropolis now known as Tokyo was once a sleepy fishing village named Edo [meaning “bay” and ruled by a shogun […]
In the second episode of “James May: Our Man in…Japan”, entitled “Cabbage Roll”, we have James starting off in Tohoku on the Japanese island of Honshu. James has a new translator – Makiko – for this episode and begins with a visit to a crazy robot-maker who has constructed a robot that appears similar to […]
The new James May series – “James May: Our Man In…Japan” debuted on Amazon Prime Video today – four of the six episodes are immediately available – and the first episode of those is a 48-minute offering entitled “Go”. May takes time off from his “The Grand Tour” duties to visit Japan but the style […]
Matthew McConaughey goes ice fishing in what appears to be the Canadian Rockies while encased in the luxury of a 2020 Lincoln Aviator [“beats jiggin’ in a shanty” mumbles McConaughey] while whistling the theme song to “The Andy Griffith Show” after he has snagged a fishy…
The Invasion of the Tumbleweeds sounds like it should be a bad horror movie title but it was a real life event near Richland, Washington, as tumbleweeds – usually seen scurrying across a roadway after gusts of wind – instead decided to stay, colonize a highway and engulf any cars that happened to be in […]
Volkswagen says goodbye to their iconic Beetle with a video entitled “The Last Mile” – before they make their presence known in tonight’s New Year’s Eve festivities in New York City’s famed Times Square. The 91-second animated video features Chicago-based Pro Musica Youth Chorus children’s choir singing the Beatles’ mega-hit “Let it Be” before proceeding […]
Ken Block drives through some fog in the Swiss Alps in a Ford Escort RS Cosworth V2 – but not until 8:15 of the video if you want to cut to the chase…
Electric vehicle-maker Rivian showed off their R1T’s tank turn capabilities for the holidays…
Ferrari has signed 22-year-old French driver Charles Leclerc to a new five-year contract until 2024. Leclerc – who is French but lives in Monaco -finished fourth in the 2019 Formula One drivers championship, won back-to-back races in Belgium and Italy and scored seven pole positions, the most any other F1 driver. Ferrari team principal Mattia […]
The original Ford GT-40 that British driver Ken Miles drove in the 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans currently sits in a Carroll Shelby Museum near Boulder, Colorado – and Adam Carolla provides a look at the car that should have been allowed to win the 1966 Le Mans race and was featured in the […]
“Ford v. Ferrari” is the feature film re-telling of one of the classic battles of automotive racing history – American icon Ford’s clash with Italian icon Ferrari’s domination of what was then one of the world’s most popular races – the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The film stars Matt Damon in the lead role […]
Porsche enters the “Star Wars” universe with a starship design…
The first episode of the fourth season of “The Grand Tour” on Amazon Prime began, appropriately enough – with a prolonged argument over whose boat was better. Substitute boats for cars and it was just alike any other episode of “Top Gear” or “The Grand Tour” previous to it with these three hosts – Richard […]
The first episode of the fourth season of “The Grand Tour” is set to debut on Amazon Prime tomorrow, but before that can happen, the boys – Richard Hammond, James May and Jeremy Clarkson – finish some sentences…