Carl Casper, beyond his hot rods and customs, was also an expert carriage builder... he won the trophy so many times they named it after him... really

I think this was from Hot Rod Deluxe, they did a full feature on the cars that Carl Casper made

Hot Rod Magazine, helping us hot rod parts purchasers by exposing counterfeit parts

things I never knew about tires, another good reason to read car magazines

Seriously, read the captions on the right... the Lotus tire built by Yokohama is a pound lighter than the version they sell to tire buyers!

The Mustang has the same tires as the Mercedes, a Pirelli P Zero

what interest does VW have in buying Ducati? (a great reason to read magazines, they explore issues like this that you'd never hear of anywhere else)

I think this was in Autoweek, or Car and Driver. Or Automobile Magazine... regardless, these are all great magazines, and this article is one of the examples I subscribe to each of them. 

did you hear about the class action suit against Porsche for the intermediate shaft bearing failures?

a total intermediate shaft-bearing failure within the engine, a hand-grenade effect that transformed the uber-wundercars into functioning doorstops. So prevalent were the malfunctions that owners banded together to sue Porsche.

Porsche wants nothing to do with him and will not—cannot, they say—fix his car gratis. His problem,  lies outside the criteria of the class-action suit, and to fix it would violate the agreement. Schoelzel's car was registered to him and in service for 10 years and 98 days, so he's S.O.L.

 If he wants the company to behave as it should and treat him as a loyal customer, he is going to have to sue them on his own.

 From 2001 to 2005, Porsche sold 39,633 Boxsters and a whopping 51,375 Porsche 911 models (including rarer and unattached-to-this-suit GT2s, GT3s and Turbos).

 The heart of the matter is the heart of what matters: If you can't trust Porsche to build bullet-proof engines and stand by their products, what can you do?

http://www.autoweek.com/article/20130918/CARNEWS/130919830 

reading between the lines, the red light cameras were all about the money to the cities, not safety concerns

from the San Diego newspaper, the Union Tribune

As any revolutionary or history of overthrowing an oppressor will relate, you will see changes and improvements when things become too expensive (ever read the MYTH series by Asprin? http://www.mythadventures.net/index.html )

another great inofrmation tidbit from Hot Rod Magazine and editor Elena Scherr