Federal investigators sent 175 people into 40 states this summer to check on truck driving schools, and...
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.
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On August 28, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced it was tearing down what it called...
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The photo Chevrolet handed out to announce this collab says more than the press release does: a...
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Somewhere in Houston sits a 2020 McLaren 720S Spider that looks like it rolled out of a...
