Car E.R. is So Bad, Its Good

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...

So long, Shelby: Carroll Shelby 1923–2012

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...

Why cars still matter

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...