A Berkeley police stop became a west-suburban chase that kept going after the car lost a wheel...
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.
Somewhere between “this looks like the way in” and “why is the dashboard pointing at the ground,”...
On September 25, 1970, The Partridge Family premiered on ABC and turned a retired 1957 Chevrolet school...
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Venuum Black's matte-black Voltoro V1 kit gives Lamborghini's 1,001-hp Revuelto a fixed rear wing. The factory's own...
Sandy Springs police joked about their "slowest PIT." Here’s why low speed matters, and what the driver’s...
Darrell Waltrip’s family shared a health update this week that changes the way an entire generation of...
On September 24, 1964, The Munsters premiered on CBS, and Barris Kustoms' Munster Koach and Drag-U-La became...
Mercedes-AMG has never sold a four-door convertible version of the current G 63, so BRABUS built one....
On September 23, 1940, American Bantam drove its hand-built pilot to Camp Holabird and handed the Army...
Nashville’s Fairgrounds Speedway has now survived one lawsuit and absorbed a second signature drive aimed at shutting...
McLaren pulled the cover off a new wordmark this morning, and if you’ve scrolled past the reveal...
Julien's Auctions and TCM are selling the screen-used hero Batmobile from 1992's Batman Returns on November 23,...
