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Lightning Lap 2018: Where the Track Tells the Truth

By RK Motors - Sep 21, 2018

The hottest cars on America's toughest track Driving a couple million dollars’ worth of cars with a total of more than 10,...

Homebrew Home-Run - Suzy Bauter's Show-Stopping Auto-X 1963 AMC Rambler

By RK Motors - Sep 20, 2018

What is it to build a hot rod – or more accurately, what is a hot rod? In today’s times, we’re further and further from the p...

Customized Classics Reign Supreme at Car Auction

By RK Motors - Sep 17, 2018

  Barrett-Jackson's chairman Craig Jackson has a hot take on the top lots that'll roll off the auction floor.   On a recen...

Official: The Volkswagen Beetle Is Dead

By RK Motors - Sep 14, 2018

The Volkswagen Beetle Final Edition will be the last. Like the rest of the world, VW is pivoting to SUVs The venerable Volk...

Racing entrepreneur Dr. Don Panoz, 1935-2018

By RK Motors - Sep 12, 2018

Dr. Don Panoz in October 2017. Photo by Osajus. Dr. Don Panoz, best known as the one-time owner of the International Motor S...

Burt Reynolds, Movie Star Who Played It for Grins, Dies at 82

By RK Motors - Sep 06, 2018

The ex-jock from Florida starred in 'Deliverance' and 'Boogie Nights' but preferred making such populist, fun fare as 'Smokey...

Chevy's next-gen Corvette: The best look yet

By RK Motors - Sep 04, 2018

Photo credit: KGP PHOTOGRAPHY This is it. Really this time. This is the midengine Chevy Corvette, aka C8, in near-production...

Jeep Wrangler Scrambler pickup spied in tough-looking off-road trim

By RK Motors - Sep 04, 2018

Image Credit: SpiedBilde   More Jeep Wrangler Scrambler spy shots have surfaced. This time we're looking at a pair of Scrambl...

A Hot Rod Takes Pikes Peak...

By RK Motors - Sep 04, 2018

Ray Evernham is a buddy of mine, and just a very cool car guy. He won 3 Cup championships as a Crew Chief for Jeff Gordon, wa...

2019 Chevrolet Camaro Turbo 1LE First Drive

By RK Motors - Aug 30, 2018

  No one expects the little brother to have a mean right-hook. Such is the case for the 2019 Chevrolet Camaro Turbo 1LE, the r...

Best Cars of the 2018 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance

By RK Motors - Aug 28, 2018

The winning 1937 Alfa Romeo was far from the only stunner, as usual The 1937 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900B Touring Berlinetta that won...

Tulsa "elected" capital of Route 66

By RK Motors - Aug 22, 2018

Photo by Emma Nairne Nations have capitals; states have capitals; roads generally do not. Route 66, however, technically has...

Harley-Davidson banks on e-bike market share with the announcement of its latest 2019 model

By RK Motors - Aug 22, 2018

Harley-Davidson LiveWire electric motorcycle. Photos courtesy Harley-Davidson. The powers that be at Harley-Davidson realize...

2018 Woodward Dream Cruise: What The Designers Actually Drive

By RK Motors - Aug 21, 2018

Inside the "Inside Baseball" car-designers' car show Not everybody who works for GM, Ford, or FCA is a car nut. It's n...

The Corvette ZR1 Is a Screaming Deal

By RK Motors - Aug 20, 2018

Chevrolet's 755 horsepower monster is the limit for the front-engined version of the model.   Source: Chevrolet Media...

At last Hollywood goes big on Carroll Shelby

By RK Motors - Aug 17, 2018

Shelby in ’66. Painting by Wallace A. Wyss. [Editor’s note: This piece comes to us from Wallace A. Wyss, artist and author o...

First Look: 50th Anniversary Ford Performance Mustang Cobra Jet

By RK Motors - Aug 16, 2018

Ford’s Cobra Jet Mustang has been a success since 1968, and now Ford Performance introduces the 2018 CJ—a 50th Anniversary Mu...

Check Out All The Weird Jeeps At This Huge Jeep Party

By RK Motors - Aug 14, 2018

I spent all day Saturday at the Toledo Jeep Fest, a huge gathering of Willys, Kaiser, AMC and Chrysler-era Jeeps in the heart...