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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.
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...
Charles Leclerc walked into his Silverstone press conference this week and said the quiet part out loud:...
Porsche has done a lot of strange and wonderful things with its Sonderwunsch division over the years,...
Motorsport fans have plenty to celebrate this weekend as three of the biggest championships in the world...
If you drive in San Francisco, your license plate has almost certainly been photographed, timestamped, and geolocated...
A buyer's guide to the best dash cams of 2026, explaining resolution, dual-channel setups, parking mode, storage,...
There’s a certain genre of crime story where you read the first sentence and immediately know the...
A guide to the world of barn finds: how to discover hidden classics, evaluate condition and value,...
Going fast on two wheels is a different flavor of terror than going fast in a car....
Picture the scene: a burgundy 1997 Ferrari 550 Maranello rolling back through the gates of Michael Jordan’s...
Wheel locks were supposed to be the answer. They’re flying off shelves anyway, and trucks keep turning...
