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Skip the Limited-Slip Differential and Your Fast Car Is Basically Useless — Here’s Why red and white ferrari f 1 on track

Skip the Limited-Slip Differential and Your Fast Car Is Basically Useless — Here’s Why

Shawn Henry July 5, 2026

You can have all the horsepower in the world, but if only one tire is doing the...

How a Turbocharger Actually Works — No Engineering Degree Required black and red engine ba y

How a Turbocharger Actually Works — No Engineering Degree Required

John Lloyd July 5, 2026

Turbo. It’s one of the best words in all of car culture, and also one of the...

How to Buy Your First Project Car Without Torching Your Bank Account or Your Driveway brown car in a garage

How to Buy Your First Project Car Without Torching Your Bank Account or Your Driveway

Shawn Henry July 5, 2026

Every gearhead dreams of it: dragging home a scruffy classic, wrenching on it in the garage, and...

What ‘Restomod’ Actually Means, and Why the Purists Need to Chill Out red chevrolet camaro on road during daytime

What ‘Restomod’ Actually Means, and Why the Purists Need to Chill Out

John Lloyd July 4, 2026

Say the word “restomod” in the wrong crowd and someone will accuse you of ruining a classic....

Manual vs. Automatic: The Fight That Refuses to Die Is Finally Settled focus photography of car shift gear

Manual vs. Automatic: The Fight That Refuses to Die Is Finally Settled

Shawn Henry July 4, 2026

There is no argument in car culture more tired, more emotional, or more gloriously unwinnable than manual...

Paul Newman’s Dirt-Caked, Daytona-Winning Mustang Is Headed to Auction, and It’s Still Wearing Its Battle Scars paul-newman-ford-mustang-cobra-01

Paul Newman’s Dirt-Caked, Daytona-Winning Mustang Is Headed to Auction, and It’s Still Wearing Its Battle Scars

Shawn Henry July 2, 2026

There are race cars with provenance, and then there’s a Ford Mustang Cobra that Paul Newman muscled...

Somebody’s About To Win A 2026 Shelby Super Snake-R, And There Are Only 100 Of Them b03311ea-77ba-4bcc-9582-bcd62a18ef01

Somebody’s About To Win A 2026 Shelby Super Snake-R, And There Are Only 100 Of Them

Shawn Henry June 27, 2026

Imagine pulling a track-ready Shelby out of your own garage on a Saturday morning. That fantasy could...

The Greatest American Engines Ever Built Belong In A V8 Lover’s Hall Of Fame A close up of an engine block on a table

The Greatest American Engines Ever Built Belong In A V8 Lover’s Hall Of Fame

John Lloyd June 27, 2026

A celebration of the greatest American engines ever built, from the small-block Chevy to the HEMI, and...

Shelby Stuffed 1,000 HP Into the F-150 Raptor R Because the TRX Made It Mad 2026 Shelby American Ford F-150 Raptor R

Shelby Stuffed 1,000 HP Into the F-150 Raptor R Because the TRX Made It Mad

John Lloyd June 26, 2026

Shelby American has been fiddling with the Ford Raptor formula since 2013, and apparently the company decided...

Here’s Your Shot at a Tri-Power 1965 Pontiac GTO Convertible 516e2c6c-cff7-4648-9f18-6f9abc696bbf

Here’s Your Shot at a Tri-Power 1965 Pontiac GTO Convertible

Eve Nowell June 25, 2026

Some cars you admire from the rope line at a show. Others you actually get a chance...

SRT Is Back: 8 New High-Performance Ram, Dodge and Jeep Trucks and SUVs Are Coming a close up of the emblem on a car

SRT Is Back: 8 New High-Performance Ram, Dodge and Jeep Trucks and SUVs Are Coming

John Lloyd June 22, 2026

Stellantis just confirmed eight new SRT trucks and SUVs across Ram, Dodge and Jeep. Here's every upcoming...

One Of Just 2,610: This Numbers-Matching 1963 Split-Window Corvette Fuelie Can Be Yours, Plus $20,000 Cash

Eve Nowell June 10, 2026

The 1963 Chevrolet Corvette split-window coupe is one of the most coveted shapes General Motors ever put...

Audi Secretly Built A 987-HP Supercar That Embarrasses Lamborghini, And It’ll Cost You Nearly $700,000 4de94a16-a2e6-40b8-abc2-1a34c71f4ee2

Audi Secretly Built A 987-HP Supercar That Embarrasses Lamborghini, And It’ll Cost You Nearly $700,000

John Lloyd June 8, 2026

Audi just dropped a 987-horsepower hybrid supercar on the world, and almost nobody saw it coming. The...

Win This 550-HP 1979 Ford F-150 Restomod — And We Want A Backfire Reader Behind The Wheel f6cf1673-bb70-49b9-9a10-bb582a68d5a0

Win This 550-HP 1979 Ford F-150 Restomod — And We Want A Backfire Reader Behind The Wheel

Shawn Henry June 8, 2026

If you’ve ever wanted a classic truck that looks the part but hits like a muscle car,...

We Want One of Our Readers to Win This 2006 Ford GT with Only 435 Miles — or $400,000 Cash! vq0dq5flbdoyoovsmvya

We Want One of Our Readers to Win This 2006 Ford GT with Only 435 Miles — or $400,000 Cash!

Shawn Henry June 3, 2026

Here at Backfire News, we genuinely want one of our readers to win this. Not just anyone...

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Skip the Limited-Slip Differential and Your Fast Car Is Basically Useless — Here’s Why

How a Turbocharger Actually Works — No Engineering Degree Required

How to Buy Your First Project Car Without Torching Your Bank Account or Your Driveway

What ‘Restomod’ Actually Means, and Why the Purists Need to Chill Out

Manual vs. Automatic: The Fight That Refuses to Die Is Finally Settled

Paul Newman’s Dirt-Caked, Daytona-Winning Mustang Is Headed to Auction, and It’s Still Wearing Its Battle Scars

Somebody’s About To Win A 2026 Shelby Super Snake-R, And There Are Only 100 Of Them

The Greatest American Engines Ever Built Belong In A V8 Lover’s Hall Of Fame

Shelby Stuffed 1,000 HP Into the F-150 Raptor R Because the TRX Made It Mad

Here’s Your Shot at a Tri-Power 1965 Pontiac GTO Convertible

SRT Is Back: 8 New High-Performance Ram, Dodge and Jeep Trucks and SUVs Are Coming

One Of Just 2,610: This Numbers-Matching 1963 Split-Window Corvette Fuelie Can Be Yours, Plus $20,000 Cash

Audi Secretly Built A 987-HP Supercar That Embarrasses Lamborghini, And It’ll Cost You Nearly $700,000

Win This 550-HP 1979 Ford F-150 Restomod — And We Want A Backfire Reader Behind The Wheel

We Want One of Our Readers to Win This 2006 Ford GT with Only 435 Miles — or $400,000 Cash!

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