Car Culture

General Motors' medium duty consumer truck brand GMC is among the brand's oldest companies. It actually predates GM by 7 years. GMC was founded in 1901 as the Rapid Motor Vehicle Company. GM bought the company in 1909 along with Reliance a...

The third James Bond film starring Daniel Craig is in production now under the title Skyfall. It is directed by Sam Mendes who is best known for directing American Beauty. To promote the film, the filmmakers have been releasing video blogs sh...

Anger: Toyota Tacoma Pikes Peak The Rod Millen Motorsport Toyota Tacoma is not only the angriest Toyota ever but probably the angriest car in the planet. Since its victories at the 1998 and 1999 Pikes Peak in America, the Tacoma has become an ...

When the Chevrolet Corvette was introduced in 1953, no one would have imagined that the car would become the performance icon that it is today. The original cars had a 3.9 liter inline-six engine with 150hp and only available with a two-speed Powe...

Ride attempts to tell story about how cars are created

Chevrolet and Disney have opened the redesigned Test Track ride at the Epcot Center in Orlando, Florida. The ride originally opened in 1999 with sponsorship from General Motors.  “The re-imagined Test Track reflects the personality ...

Looking at the car from the feline point of view

Everybody who has ever owned a cat knows, that our feline friends have a very special relationship with the motorized species. Of course, that relationship is on the one hand dominated by the cats' insatiable curiosity that will lead them...

As I sit here tapping away under the bright lights of Hong Kong’s cityscape, with its laser show, spectacular five star hotels and twinkling LED lights of Porsche 911s and  Ferrari 458s I can’t help but wonder how Hong Kong&r...

Ordonez and Riep demonstrate in Juke Nismo

Nissan is having two of its GT Academy winners teach some driving tips over the next few weeks. Lucas Ordonez and Wolfgang Reip are hopping into the first Juke Nismo produced to teach driving tips. The first video focuses on proper braking tec...

Porsche hits five million fans on Facebook

Porsche has broken the five million fan mark on Facebook and to celebrate it is allowing fans to vote on a Carrera 4S it will actually build. The voting has started now. The first round of voting lets fans choose from a selection of six shades...

Invented by Dunlop for his son

The pneumatic tire celebrates its 125th birthday this year. These ubiquitous rubber rings are on every car, motorcycle and bicycle on the road today and revolutionized personal transport.  Veterinarian John Dunlop invented the pneumatic t...