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Born in 1958: Bill Mitchell's Sting Ray Validates a Truism

By RK Motors - Jul 31, 2018

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Elvis Presley drove the Sting Ray race car, but Autoweek is not Elvis. ...

What Is The Most American Car You Can Buy

By RK Motors - Jul 27, 2018

The Chevrolet Corvette received the highest score on the Kogod Made in America Auto Index. The score is calculated using mult...

Your guide to the 2018 Dream Cruise: Date, parking, tips and more

By RK Motors - Jul 27, 2018

Classic cars (and some that are not so classic) during the Woodward Dream Cruise.(Photo: Kimberly P. Mitchell/Detroit Free Pr...

Most Popular Classic Cars

By RK Motors - Jul 26, 2018

On July 11, ClassicCars.com published two reports that determined the Dodge Charger and Ford Mustang to be the most searched ...

Sergio Marchionne, Who Guided Fiat Chrysler's Dramatic Turnaround, Dies

By RK Motors - Jul 25, 2018

  Sergio Marchionne was named CEO of Fiat in 2004 as the company was struggling. He brought the automaker back to profit...

NHRA Museum to fete hot rod artist Robert Williams

By RK Motors - Jul 23, 2018

  Images courtesy Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum.   Ahead of a retrospective show in 2015, Robert Williams to...

Not so fast: The transportation revolution might be coming, but the rollout is slow

By RK Motors - Jul 20, 2018

ORDINARY CAR BUYERS SEEM CONTENT TO KEEP DOING WHAT THEY'VE ALWAYS DONE -- DRIVE THEMSELVES Detroit has hosted one of the wo...

How LA's Underground Street Racing Scene and The Fast And The Furious Grew Up

By RK Motors - Jul 20, 2018

  Pictured: Stephan Papadakis Illustration: Sam Woolley (GMG)   Before the Dodge Chargers were dragging safes through Rio ...

2019 Dodge Challenger R/T Scat Pack 1320 First Look

By RK Motors - Jul 19, 2018

Street-legal muscle car for the grassroots drag racer Just when you thought the Hellcat franchise was tapped out, FCA uses t...

With Miami on its slate of events, Grand Basel proposes to take car shows beyond the concours

By RK Motors - Jul 12, 2018

Image courtesy MCH Group.   For all their popularity – more spring up every year – concours events run up against a number ...

Woodward Avenue, Lincoln Highway included on PBS's list of 10 streets that changed America

By RK Motors - Jul 11, 2018

Plymouth on Los Angeles’s Wilshire Boulevard.   In 1896, Charles Brady King drove the first automobile in the city of Detro...

NASCAR Hall of Fame probes stock car history with new exhibits

By RK Motors - Jul 09, 2018

Red Vogt, who suggested the NASCAR name. Photo courtesy NASCAR Hall of Fame.   By no means did stock car racing start with ...

Is the Toyota Supra set for a Goodwood Festival of Speed Debut?

By RK Motors - Jul 05, 2018

Toyota reached to Twitter to tease the launch of the new Supra If Toyota Europe’s Twitter feed holds true, it looks like we’ll...

Everything You Want to Know About the Chevrolet Blazer

By RK Motors - Jul 02, 2018

2019 version continues 50-year history from SUV to crossover. After a long hiatus, Chevrolet is bringing back the Blazer in ...

Gene Winfield races a deuce roadster from his past at TROG

By RK Motors - Jun 28, 2018

Gene, in a ’32 Ford Roadster he helped build, now owned by Rob Ida. Photos by Kevin Carlson unless otherwise noted. [Edi...

As part of effort to make it a National Historic Trail, Route 66 added to Most Endangered Historic Places list

By RK Motors - Jun 27, 2018

Photo by Thomas Hawk. Time’s running out to preserve Route 66, the National Trust for Historic Preservation warned. The nonp...

National Corvette Museum celebrates century of Chevrolet Racing

By RK Motors - Jun 26, 2018

1957 Chevrolet 150 “Black Widow.” All images courtesy of the National Corvette Museum. Chevrolet’s history of racing goes ba...

Matt Damon Will Play Carroll Shelby In An Upcoming Movie On Ford's Battle Against Ferrari

By RK Motors - Jun 20, 2018

Matt Damon will star in a biopic that covers Ford's battle against Ferrari at Le Mans. Christian Bale and Jon Bernthal will ...