It was a packed week on Backfire News, running from lawsuits and recalls to Monterey-bound classics 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.
Somewhere in a private collection right now sits a Formula 1 helmet with the shell integrity of...
On July 29, inside a federal courthouse in Charlotte, Joe Gibbs Racing’s own attorneys asked a judge...
Selling cars for a living means dealing with unhappy customers occasionally. That’s the job. What you don’t...
Lamborghini just told the world it made more money than it ever has in company history. In...
The wrongful death case tied to the December 18 crash that killed Greg Biffle, his wife, both...
Richard Hammond spent fifteen years on Top Gear treating speed as entertainment. Last winter, a police officer...
Slice open a modern cordless drill battery and a Tesla battery pack side by side, and you’ll...
Porsche just told its own workforce that keeping the 911 in production for another decade is going...
On July 28, EZ Lynk sent out a press release with a headline that could have come...
Julia Tomko inherited her grandfather’s 1950 Chevrolet 3100 pickup truck through his will, not through a showroom...
Honda just pulled back the curtain on ten new and refreshed two-wheelers for the Indian market, and...
Jim Howe has spent three decades building a reputation as the guy who doesn’t flinch, whether that...
Hennessey Performance just released the second teaser for the car everyone inside the company still calls “Project...
In February 1996, a brand-new Ferrari F50 rolled off a truck at Beverly Hills Sports Cars, got...
