New Trends In Product Placement: No Cars For Stars
It used to be that car companies would kill to have their cars seen with stars. That seems to be changing if a frightening development in Melbourne is an indicator. The Melbourne F1 Grand Prix used...
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Junkyard Find: 1998 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP
The General produced quite a few not-so-quick front-drive cars with sporty-looking graphics and spoilers during the 1990s (e.g., the Beretta Z26), but the addition of an Eaton supercharger to the good...
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Junkyard Find: 1977 Pontiac Grand Prix
When shopping for personal luxury coupes in the late 1970s, you might have bought the 1977 Mercury Cougar (seen in yesterday’s Junkyard Find), or maybe a Chrysler Cordoba, or perhaps even an AMC...
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Racing Fans Look Forward to Frankenheimer’s Grand Prix Paul Newman’s Winning...
Click here to view the embedded video. The people running the low key publicity campaign for director Ron Howard’s upcoming Formula One based film Rush have done their job well, at least as far as car...
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Junkyard Find: 2002 Pontiac Grand Prix GTP “JuggaLambo”
We had Volkswagen Junkyard Finds all last week, and this week we’re going to have 21st Century Junkyard Finds. To start things off, how about a genuine, numbers-matching,...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 1989 Pontiac Grand Prix Coupe, with Rare Manual Transmission...
While it was possible to buy a new W-body late-1980s/early-1990s Lumina, Cutlass Supreme, or Grand Prix with a five-speed manual transmission, almost nobody did so. These cars have become pretty rare...
View ArticleTTAC News Round-up: Honda Separates the Kids, Toyota Funks It Up, and the...
The CEO of Honda is pulling the car over and giving a stern lecture to the kids in the backseat. That, a Scion gets a corporate makeover, Google goes in for autonomous feng shui, Fiat Chrysler...
View ArticleJunkyard Find: 2000 Pontiac Grand Prix Daytona 500 Edition
General Motors created quite a few NASCAR-themed special-edition W-bodies during the first decade of our current century, complete with plenty of plastic cladding and racy-looking decals. Ordinary...
View ArticleSomeone Must Have Cursed the Long Beach Grand Prix this Weekend
This weekend, the Long Beach Grand Prix saw more than its fair share of misery. It all kicked off days before the actual race when two thieves stole roughly a million dollars worth of parts from Global...
View ArticleQOTD: What was the Worst Car at Your High School?
Those of you who follow my Questions of the Day (so, 100 percent of the B&B) may notice I’ve been on a bit of a nostalgia kick lately. Asking you about your formative driving experiences or your...
View ArticleFast Cars, Fooling Around, and Formula 1 in Montreal
With contributions by Sebastien Bell and Sam McEachern Mechanics have made their last-minute checks, drivers circulate sur la piste managing tire and brake temperatures, engineers confirm strategies;...
View ArticleRare Rides: Presenting Your Majesty, the 1966 Prince R380
This special racing edition of Rare Rides was made possible by the Infiniti Q50 First Drive event in Nashville, Tennessee, which also provided the source material for this Q50 review and this Q60...
View ArticleInfiniti Unveils Gorgeous Grand Prix ‘Heritage’ Prototype, Ignores Its Own
Infiniti designed a heritage-inspired Grand Prix racer to show off at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance this year. However, it’s not technically a part of Infiniti’s heritage, as the concept...
View ArticleRare Rides: The Jaguar XJR-15 You’ve Never Seen Before
We’re having a Jaguar kick in the Rare Rides series, and by that I mean two cars in a row from the leaping cat. Though most everyone’s heard of the XJ220, fewer are likely aware of its predecessor: the...
View ArticleQOTD: Guilty Pleasures?
Guilty pleasures. Look, we’ve all got ’em. No, not those. I’m talking about cars and trucks we like … that we’re not supposed to like. Oddballs? Weirdos? Flat-out strange? Let me give you an example....
View ArticleBuy/Drive/Burn: Mediocrity Personified in Sedans of 1996
You’ve seen all of today’s contenders before on the roads, likely more times than you can count. Forgettable because of how middling they were, hundreds of thousands were sold. Which one would you...
View ArticleQOTD: What Weird Car Are You Always Happy To Find?
No, this isn’t one of those “one weird thing” clickbait-style posts. You know us better than that. This morning, we’re asking about weird cars you enjoy finding in any condition. You know what we mean:...
View ArticleRare Rides: Aggressive Luxury With the 1977 Pontiac Can Am
Rare Rides reviews another Pontiac today. And much like the recently featured Bonneville, it’s large and in charge, from the Seventies, and has two doors. Let’s see how much horsepower the 1977 Can Am...
View ArticleRare Rides: The 1986 Pontiac Grand Prix 2+2, Not Actually Named Aerocoupe
Rare Rides previously examined a rare Grand Prix. It was from a Pepsi contest and separated from the coupe you see here by only three years. Today we consider the end of an era for Grand Prix, with the...
View ArticleRare Rides: The 1981 Lotus 87 Formula One Car, in Black Gold
While the Rare Rides series has featured a few Lotus vehicles in past, none of them rose quite to the importance of today’s single-seat example. A one-of-one, it’s the car Lotus used in the 1981...
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