Automoto Network

Six weeks ago, word got out that Ford’s VP of sales for the U.S. and Canada wrote one of those “It has come to our attention…” e-mails to the automaker’s dealer body. The VP’s problem was dealers trying to get reservation deposits for the Ford F-150 Lightning well above the official $100 fee. The tomfoolery […] March 01, 2022 at 07:15AM

Fifteen years ago, I wrote my first-ever automotive article under the name Murilee Martin, and it didn’t take me long to start writing about one of my favorite automotive subjects: the junkyard. Before I’d refined my system for documenting discarded vehicles, however, I shot a lot of boneyard photos that never got used. For today’s […] February 07, 2022 at 06:45AM

Not long ago, I wrote a story about a pony car tuned with a supercharger. The blower install had been done properly. Then the car’s owner bolted on a set of great looking wheels wrapped in good looking but inexpensive rubber. On my first test drive, I couldn’t get any of that supercharged sweetness to […] January 18, 2022 at 07:01AM