A practical guide to off-road driving techniques for mud, sand, rocks, and hills, covering momentum, line choice,...
John Lloyd
John Lloyd is a staff writer at Backfire News, where he writes about the messier, more entertaining side of the car world—celebrity rides, motorsports drama, and whatever weird automotive thing happened to blow up online that week.
He's drawn to the spot where cars meet culture. One day that's breaking down why some celebrity just dropped a fortune on a hypercar; the next it's figuring out why a particular model is suddenly all over everyone's feed. He likes giving readers the context behind the headline, usually with a little attitude.
The way John sees it, most people don't think of cars as just transportation. They're status symbols, money pits, lifelong obsessions, and occasionally pure chaos—and that's exactly the stuff worth writing about.
You'll usually find him covering celebrity collections, viral car-culture moments, motorsports headlines, high-performance machines, and the trends moving the resale market.
A complete starter guide to the essential tools every home mechanic needs, from core hand tools and...
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Toyota’s motorsport arm just quietly broke an assumption a lot of us have carried around about hydrogen...
Ask a casual NASCAR fan who has made the most money in the sport’s history and you...
Somewhere in the Silverstone stewards’ room on Sunday evening, five officials had to reach for the FIA...
Austin Hill didn’t need to watch the replay to know what happened. Neither did Richard Childress.Forty-seven laps...
Marc van der Straten died at his home in Switzerland on July 5, at age 78. If...
Stellantis can’t get a new Viper past federal crash standards. Pixels, it turns out, don’t need airbags.Starting...
40,000 pounds of Frank's RedHot leaked onto an Ohio interstate, and the EPA had to help clean...
Highway 59 in Marshall, Texas isn’t built for boats, but Monday afternoon it briefly worked like one....
Turbo. It’s one of the best words in all of car culture, and also one of the...
Winter is the great equalizer. It doesn’t care how much horsepower you have or how new your...
Say the word “restomod” in the wrong crowd and someone will accuse you of ruining a classic....
Nobody at Ferrari, Mercedes or McLaren will hand you an invoice for what it costs to move...
