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.

Seven Supercars Ran ‘Follow the Leader’ on a Colorado Highway. Deputies Were Already Waiting at the Finish Line

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Seven Supercars Ran ‘Follow the Leader’ on a Colorado Highway. Deputies Were Already Waiting at the Finish Line

John Lloyd August 21, 2026

Highway 103 in Clear Creek County, Colorado isn’t a closed circuit, a canyon run with a scenic...

California County Will Pay You Up To $1,000 To Turn In An Illegal E-Bike Or E-Moto

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California County Will Pay You Up To $1,000 To Turn In An Illegal E-Bike Or E-Moto

John Lloyd August 21, 2026

Todd Spitzer has spent his career as Orange County’s top prosecutor locking people up, not running consumer...

Someone Firebombed A McLaren Outside A Birmingham Wedding, And The Getaway Car Was A Volkswagen Golf

John Lloyd August 21, 2026

Somewhere outside a banqueting hall in Sparkbrook, Birmingham, three men in hoods spent roughly ten seconds throwing...

Max Verstappen Will Wear This Suit One Last Time at Zandvoort, Then It’s Someone Else’s

Max Verstappen Is Staying Put For Next Season

Max Verstappen Will Wear This Suit One Last Time at Zandvoort, Then It’s Someone Else’s

John Lloyd August 21, 2026

Somewhere in a Red Bull Racing kit room this week sits a race suit that hadn’t been...

KTM Recalls 6,257 Husqvarna and GasGas Dirt Bikes Over Rear Brake Calipers That Can Crack Mid-Ride

Husqvarna FE enduro motorcycles riding off-road, the model line affected by the rear brake caliper recall

KTM Recalls 6,257 Husqvarna and GasGas Dirt Bikes Over Rear Brake Calipers That Can Crack Mid-Ride

John Lloyd August 21, 2026

KTM North America filed a new federal recall on August 7, 2026, admitting that the rear brake...

Leno’s Law Cleared the Committee That Killed It Last Year. Here’s the Math.

Jay Leno Classic Car Bill Gets Butchered In California

Leno’s Law Cleared the Committee That Killed It Last Year. Here’s the Math.

John Lloyd August 20, 2026

SB 1392 cleared Assembly Appropriations 15-0 and is on the Assembly floor. What Leno's Law actually exempts,...

This Daytona Coupe Nearly Doubled the American Car Record — and It Never Won a Major FIA Race

This Daytona Coupe Nearly Doubled the American Car Record — and It Never Won a Major FIA Race

John Lloyd August 20, 2026

Chassis CSX2300 hammered at $39 million at Pebble Beach, beating the previous American car record by 95...

Alex Fiorio, Lancia’s Eternal WRC Runner-Up, Dies at 61 After Stomach Cancer Battle

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Alex Fiorio, Lancia’s Eternal WRC Runner-Up, Dies at 61 After Stomach Cancer Battle

John Lloyd August 19, 2026

Alessandro “Alex” Fiorio, the Italian rally driver who spent the late 1980s finishing just behind some of...

Stolen in 1993, Found Decades Later: How a Routine CHP VIN Check Cracked This Chevelle Cold Case

Black 1971 Chevrolet Chevelle SS recovered by CHP Auburn 33 years after a 1993 San Mateo County theft

Stolen in 1993, Found Decades Later: How a Routine CHP VIN Check Cracked This Chevelle Cold Case

John Lloyd August 18, 2026

There is a photograph circulating out of the California Highway Patrol’s Auburn Area office: three men, arms...

Fernando Alonso Designed His Own Aston Martin — And Insisted It Keep a Manual Gearbox

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Fernando Alonso Designed His Own Aston Martin — And Insisted It Keep a Manual Gearbox

John Lloyd August 18, 2026

Fernando Alonso spent part of Formula 1’s summer shutdown the way most gearheads only fantasize about: rowing...

Xiaomi Just Delivered Its 500,000th SU7 in 28.5 Months, and the Real Story Isn’t the Car

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Xiaomi Just Delivered Its 500,000th SU7 in 28.5 Months, and the Real Story Isn’t the Car

John Lloyd August 18, 2026

Lei Jun spent more than a decade building phones, routers, and rice cookers before he built a...

This Bare-Carbon Bugatti EB110 Bid to $5.5 Million at Mecum — and Still Didn’t Sell 692625

This Bare-Carbon Bugatti EB110 Bid to $5.5 Million at Mecum — and Still Didn’t Sell

John Lloyd August 18, 2026

Mecum’s Monterey sale wrapped up with the usual parade of seven-figure metal, but the lot that had...

Kawasaki’s Patents Show How CORLEO’s Robot Horse Actually Thinks, and It’s Unnervingly Smart

Kawasaki CORLEO concept diagram showing patented hydrogen power unit, cooling system, leg suspension, and rubber hoof components

Kawasaki’s Patents Show How CORLEO’s Robot Horse Actually Thinks, and It’s Unnervingly Smart

John Lloyd August 18, 2026

Kawasaki did something more revealing than another slick CORLEO video this year: it kept filing paperwork. A...

Rezvani’s Beast X Stuffs 1,560 Horsepower and AWD Into a Reskinned Corvette, and Only Five Will Exist

Rezvani Beast X, a heavily modified Corvette-based hypercar with scissor doors, parked in a residential driveway

Rezvani’s Beast X Stuffs 1,560 Horsepower and AWD Into a Reskinned Corvette, and Only Five Will Exist

John Lloyd August 18, 2026

Rezvani has never been shy about turning a Corvette into something unrecognizable, but the Beast X pushes...

This Giallo Modena Ferrari F50 Just Became the Most Expensive One Ever Sold at Auction

This Giallo Modena Ferrari F50 Just Became the Most Expensive One Ever Sold at Auction

John Lloyd August 17, 2026

Two Ferrari F50s crossed auction blocks during Monterey Car Week this year, roughly 72 hours and a...

John Lloyd

Seven Supercars Ran ‘Follow the Leader’ on a Colorado Highway. Deputies Were Already Waiting at the Finish Line

California County Will Pay You Up To $1,000 To Turn In An Illegal E-Bike Or E-Moto

Someone Firebombed A McLaren Outside A Birmingham Wedding, And The Getaway Car Was A Volkswagen Golf

Max Verstappen Will Wear This Suit One Last Time at Zandvoort, Then It’s Someone Else’s

KTM Recalls 6,257 Husqvarna and GasGas Dirt Bikes Over Rear Brake Calipers That Can Crack Mid-Ride

Leno’s Law Cleared the Committee That Killed It Last Year. Here’s the Math.

This Daytona Coupe Nearly Doubled the American Car Record — and It Never Won a Major FIA Race

Alex Fiorio, Lancia’s Eternal WRC Runner-Up, Dies at 61 After Stomach Cancer Battle

Stolen in 1993, Found Decades Later: How a Routine CHP VIN Check Cracked This Chevelle Cold Case

Fernando Alonso Designed His Own Aston Martin — And Insisted It Keep a Manual Gearbox

Xiaomi Just Delivered Its 500,000th SU7 in 28.5 Months, and the Real Story Isn’t the Car

This Bare-Carbon Bugatti EB110 Bid to $5.5 Million at Mecum — and Still Didn’t Sell

Kawasaki’s Patents Show How CORLEO’s Robot Horse Actually Thinks, and It’s Unnervingly Smart

Rezvani’s Beast X Stuffs 1,560 Horsepower and AWD Into a Reskinned Corvette, and Only Five Will Exist

This Giallo Modena Ferrari F50 Just Became the Most Expensive One Ever Sold at Auction

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