Some people were born to define what they do Dale Walker is not a household name everywhere. But in many households on the west side of the US, he’s a legend. If you’re into motorcycles, especially drag racers, you know how important Dale is. Several decades ago, like quite a few growing up in the then-wide-open spaces in California, Nevada, [...]

It’s a given Mexico’s been building a strong automotive manufacturing foundation over the years, and with many US and European firms already there, and the many Chinese companies rushing in, their home market appears to be positioned to explode – in a good way. Even now, it has about 20% more brands1 on sale than in the US, all vying [...]

The transportation industry is experiencing a level of change and uncertainty that could possibly rival the late 1800s when there were, amazingly, roughly 2000 companies involved in the manufacture of automobiles. The advent of mass production shortly after, however, decimated the manufacturing landscape and paved the way for The Big Three, which then dominated the world scene for about a [...]

Personal, motorized transportation has steadily evolved since the first viably commercial car, the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, took to the streets in 1886. Change was hard then, and change is hard now. A lot of people were not at all happy with the noisy, smelly, undoubtedly dangerous machines scaring the locals and their horses. But, we slowly addressed these intrusive issues and [...]

One of the world’s largest & smallest, loosest & tightest, most social & isolated communities on the planet: Gearheads The massive auto enthusiast community is a diverse, passionate community from all corners of the world. This dichotomous bunch is fundamentally connected by a shared love for cars, trucks, motorcycles, boats…anything mechanical that drives, rides, flys, and floats. The global phenomenon [...]