by Fast Machines | May 12, 2012 | Auto News
Reality television shows have become a guilty pleasure in our society, and now low budget series get an opportunity of life thanks to YouTube. One of these series, Car E.R., is about Pam Oakes, a fourth-generation female car mechanic who owns Pam’s Motor City out in...
by Fast Machines | May 12, 2012 | Fast And Dangerous
The automotive world’s most famous failed chicken farmer, Carroll Shelby, died Thursday, May 10 at Baylor Hospital in Dallas, 110 miles due west from tiny Leesburg, Texas, where he was born on January 11, 1923. Shelby, 89, had been ill for eight months, and the cause...
by Fast Machines | May 12, 2012 | Formula One Blog
The purists – who deride the current generation of cars with their KERS boost buttons, fast-degrading tyres and driver-operated wing flaps, as gimmicky – would agree with him. Hembery makes the case for the defence. “Michael is a great champion,” he said in...
by Fast Machines | May 12, 2012 | Spares
Rumors of the automobile’s demise are persistent but wrong. A review of Paul Ingrassia’s Engines of Change: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars. By Alex Taylor III, senior editor-at-large FORTUNE — It has become an all-too familiar trope...
by Fast Machines | May 12, 2012 | Exterior
Official Photos and Infoarrow VIEW PHOTOS (15) | COMMENTS Mini has saved its fastest for lastest. We’ve previously run a couple of speculative stories on the Mini John Cooper Works GP. It is with some relief that we are now able to provide some official information...