First Ever Shelby Cobra to Hit the Auction Block
The annual RM Sotheby’s auction at Monterey Car Week this year already has its star feature lined up – a tiny blue roadster built by Texas chicken farmer-turned-racecar driver and iconic automoti...
Season 2 of Jay Leno’s Garage Starts This Week
In its first season, it became the the most watched original series in CNBC history. And we here at E3 Spark Plugs don’t doubt it. Jay Leno’s Garage is a popular spot on the TV dial for auto enth...
Michelin, XBOX to Host Global 24 Hours Forza Motorsports Challenge
Hey gamers – Start your virtual engines! Tire maker Michelin and Xbox are gearing up for a day-long gaming event that will land one lucky winner a trip to the 2017 24 Hours of Le Mans in France. ...
Formula 1 Headed Back to Las Vegas?
Las Vegas hasn’t seen a grand prix since 1982, when drivers hit the gas in the parking lot of the Caesar’s Palace casino. But the iconic race may be headed back to Sin City as early as 2018. Form...
Canadian Mounties Bring Out the Big Guns – or Cameras, Rather – To Bust Texting Drivers
Each year in the United States, some 3,100 people die and another 424,000 are injured in car crashes blamed at least in part on distracted drivers. And all too often, that distraction involves som...
Fast and Furious Fans Get a Theatrical Throwback
A decade and a half after Dom, Brian, Letty and the rest of the crew debuted in theaters and set up shop in the collective consciousness of fast car enthusiasts and film fans worldwide, the movie...
Ford Recalls 271,000 F-150 Pickup Trucks Over Potential Brake Fluid Leak
Drive a Ford F-150? Here’s a heads up. The company just recalled upward of 271,000 2013 and 2014 model pickups over a defect that can cause the brake fluid to leak from the master cylinder into t...
That Time Two Kids Dug Up a Ferrari Dino 246 GTS in Their Front Yard…
We’ve all heard about great barn finds. But did you ever hear the story of two Los Angeles boys who made an amazing yard find? It happened in 1978, just three months after their family moved into...
Rock Gives Instagram Followers First Look at his Fast 8 Persona
Instagram followers of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson just got an unexpected surprise – a first look at his darker, grittier, angrier persona for the upcoming Fast 8, the latest installment in the wil...
