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If there’s one thing you can always count on James Bond movies for, it’s amazing cars and the car chases that ensue. While 007 had a propensity for old Bentley flatheads in Ian Fleming’s novels, Bond’s car of choice for many of his films have come in the form of Aston Martin DB5s (and the occasional Lotus Esprit submarine.)…

The Lamborghini Miura is one of the best-looking cars that Lambo ever made and one of the classics from the brand. Rod Stewart, yes that Rod Stewart, apparently has (or had) a very nice collection of cars befitting his rock star status.…

What one thing makes people want to lease a car more than anything else? No, even more than an inflatable gorilla… even more than an inflatable dancing tube man… yes, that.…

Sadly, we’re not all race car drivers. That’s because we didn’t train, at great expense, for years as children for a shot in a career that usually requires another job as an actual source of income and almost never results any sort of stability.…

It’s hard for the uninitiated to understand just what it feels like to be in a car driven at race speed on track. Track novices often think they drive really hard on the street and will dominate the track.…

Recently, one of the late legendary driver Ayrton Senna’s karts went on sale for in the neighborhood of $30,000. You’ll have to dig up a little more scratch for the latest piece of Senna memorabilia to hit the market: the Toleman-Hart F1 TG184-2 Formula 1 race car the Brazilian wonder drove in his rookie year, 1984.…

One of the coolest things about Batman, other than being a billionaire ninja, is that he has the Batmobile and other cool toys. That car has always been one of the coolest things about the Caped Crusader.…

Paul Newman is best known to most as the Oscar-winning star of The Color of Money, and many other films. But gearheads know that Newman had a second career as an avid auto racer and racing enthusiast, much to the chagrin of the studios that had millions invested in his acting chops and photogenic baby blues.…

I love Amazon Prime, and I make it my goal each year to ensure that Amazon loses money on me when it comes to shipping. This year I stuck them with the shipping charge for a 400-pound wood lathe that was on Prime.…

Roadkill is known for tweaking and wrecking clunkers and hot rods, but thanks to its new sponsor Dodge, the show got three cutting edge cars for its latest episode: the 707hp Challenger SRT Hellcat and Charger SRT Hellcat and the 645hp Viper GT.…

Porsche has made a turbo version of the 911 for a very long time now, so when we say the Porsche 911 fleet is going turbo don’t get confused.…

Hyundai has helped a little girl tell her dad the most important message any kid can deliver; that she loves him. The catch is that the girl’s dad is an astronaut on the International Space Station.…

All you have to do is watch TV and you are bound to run into a car ad during your favorite show. Ford likes to brag that the F150 truck is the best selling vehicle in the US.…

Now that I’ve nailed down the Weird Headline of the Day Award (assuming Florida doesn’t have another drug-assisted, naked rampage of some sort), I can move on to the real content of this article.…

I’m not the sort of person to get motion sick on anything from roller coasters to race cars. Some folks aren’t that lucky though and tend to get sick in just about anything that moves.…