September 14, 2026

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.
An Unmarked Tow Truck, a Scanner, and an 11-Year-Dead Registration: Inside LA’s Bandit Towing Crackdown A tow truck towing a car on the road

An Unmarked Tow Truck, a Scanner, and an 11-Year-Dead Registration: Inside LA’s Bandit Towing Crackdown

John Lloyd September 10, 2026 0
West Hollywood sheriff’s deputies flagged a tow truck near La Brea Avenue and Fountain Avenue last week...
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Mazda’s Hiroshima Museum Just Hit Two Million Visitors — And the Pace Says Something Interesting A red sports car on display in a showroom

Mazda’s Hiroshima Museum Just Hit Two Million Visitors — And the Pace Says Something Interesting

John Lloyd September 8, 2026 0
Mazda’s corporate museum in Hiroshima quietly crossed a number most tourist attractions would kill for: two million...
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. Spent 20 Minutes With Tom Cruise at Daytona, But He’s Been Coaching the ‘Days of Thunder 2’ Writer for Almost a Year Dale Earnhardt Jr. recording an episode of his Dale Jr. Download podcast

Dale Earnhardt Jr. Spent 20 Minutes With Tom Cruise at Daytona, But He’s Been Coaching the ‘Days of Thunder 2’ Writer for Almost a Year

John Lloyd September 8, 2026 0
Tom Cruise’s stunt at Daytona made for the moment built for cameras: an actor hopping over a...
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GM’s New Cabin Camera Software Won’t Spy for the Company — It Might Just Get You Sued Instead Gener curtain wall building during daytime

GM’s New Cabin Camera Software Won’t Spy for the Company — It Might Just Get You Sued Instead

John Lloyd September 8, 2026 0
A rear-facing camera tucked into the overhead console. Four more cameras scattered around the sheet metal. And...
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Range Rover Finally Builds an EV, and It’s Launching Straight Into the Company’s Worst Financial Year on Record

John Lloyd September 7, 2026 0
Range Rover just opened order books for its first fully electric SUV, and the timing is almost...
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California’s ‘Leno’s Law’ Would Let More 1980s Classics Skip Smog Checks — If Sacramento Ever Lets It Out of Committee black and grey vehicle during daytime

California’s ‘Leno’s Law’ Would Let More 1980s Classics Skip Smog Checks — If Sacramento Ever Lets It Out of Committee

John Lloyd September 7, 2026 0
Every legislative session, Sacramento produces one bill gearheads actually want to read past the headline. This time...
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A Corvette Sat at the Bottom of Oregon’s Willamette River for Decades. Pulling It Out Is What Finally Destroyed It green trees beside river during daytime

A Corvette Sat at the Bottom of Oregon’s Willamette River for Decades. Pulling It Out Is What Finally Destroyed It

John Lloyd September 6, 2026 0
Water is supposed to be what kills an old car. Rust doesn’t need much encouragement, and a...
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