1965 Impala Hell Project, Part 14: First Taste of the Quarter-Mile
After I moved from San Francisco to Atlanta and then got a job writing Year One’s catalogs, rubbing elbows with all those drag-race-crazed Southern gearheads on the job meant that it wasn’t long before...
View ArticleTesting The Limits Of Civil Obedience: An Experiment
Yesterday, while folks in the Southeast were getting hammered with their second severe winter storm in two weeks, the skies over Buffalo were wonderfully bright and sunny. Of course, when you count...
View ArticleNASCAR For The Novice (The Prequel)
Click here to view the embedded video. I am pacing back and forth in a 200 square foot wooden building that I had exchanged for a 1996 Volvo 850 sedan back in 2008. “What the hell am I going to write...
View ArticleMercedes-Benz Set To Announce Move To Atlanta
Sources that Mercedes-Benz will announce Tuesday that their headquarters will move from Northern New Jersey to Atlanta, Georgia. The move is the latest in a series of relocations to the South. Last...
View ArticleSouthbound And Down: Mercedes Moving To Atlanta
We first mentioned this Monday evening, and now it’s official: Mercedes-Benz USA is leaving New Jersey for the old, sweet song of Atlanta. The move from Montvale, N.J. begins in July with the first...
View ArticleAtlanta Grows Into Role As Automotive Industry Hub
As Mercedes-Benz USA prepares for its two-year move from New Jersey to Atlanta, the question is how the city scored this win in the first place. Turns out Atlanta is pushing its own brand as that of...
View ArticleAtlanta Becomes Next American City to Host Waymo’s Autonomous Test Fleet
Waymo, the self-driving unit of Google parent Alphabet, is testing the crap out of its ever-growing fleet of autonomous Chrysler Pacificas. While we know the company has already mapped dozens of North...
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