Porsche’s factory prototypes at Road America this weekend aren’t wearing the usual Porsche Penske Motorsport colors. Both...
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 GM’s second-quarter 2026 earnings call, Mary Barra spent about fifteen seconds on the sentence automotive watchers...
